The Seaver family enjoys a lobster dinner on the ipê deck that serves as bridge between
their Higgins Beach property’s front and back cottages. (Before the renovation, one had to go down a set of exterior stairs and up another to travel between the two houses.) Although the
deck could not be given a roof per local ordinance, Russ Tyson of Whitten Architects still wanted a way to illuminate the space, so he chose to wrap string lights around stainless-steel cables strung at what would be ceiling level.