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What we do
Bow House produces Museum Quality home building kits.
When completed, our customers enjoy a faithful reproduction of a 300
year old Bowed roof cape. We have people who thought that, in going into
a Bow House, they were in an antique house.
We achieve this by going back in time (we have our own machine) to
discover what materials the Colonials had to work with, and making them
or having them made for us.
For example, we make our own doors. The interior doors have the
dimensions and style of the 18th century, the exterior doors have thick panels consonant with
the period. Lumber yard doors used in less meticulous construction are
representative of the 19th century.
The purpose of Bow House is to function first as a designer to customize
the house to your needs, and second as a lumber yard, specializing in
custom materials.
What we give you is a home with the appearance of an old house while
having all of today's amenities. "New wine in an old bottle, or old wine
in a new bottle. whatever."
The Cape Cod House
To understand the Cape Cod House it must be considered
as a "land craft", built by ships' carpenters to ride the shifting sands
and withstand the lashing northeasters just as its sister schooners rode
out ocean waves and storms.
The bowed roof is a variation on the theme. The roof rafters were
bent to please the seafaring home owners of the time. The earliest
extant bowed roof cape is documented as being built in 1678, in West
Falmouth, Massachusetts. It is often called "the ships bottom
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"There
is nothing ill can dwell in such a temple.
If the spirit have so fair a house
Good things will strive to dwell in it."
- Shakespeare |
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There
was a crooked man, and he walked a crooked mile,
He found a crooked sixpence against a crooked stile:
He bought a crooked cat, which caught a crooked mouse,
And they all lived together in a little crooked house.
- Anon |
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