No need for show. Connolly explains that this couple were attracted to the saltbox style, but to mesh the design with the site, they turned the saltbox backwards, so the slant is toward the front of the building while the back opens up into two stories of windows, the better to enjoy the view. The entrance is on the side of the house, off a screened porch spanning the house and the garage. At first all you see are the windows and the views beyond. The house is built on a point of land jutting out into a tidal flat.
Water flows around it at high tide.
You know this because you can see it. There are windows on three sides, in three tiers - the first floor, the second floor and in the peak of the roof. Down the trim lawn, pine trees gather along the shore. Under the pines is a grouping of comfortable lawn furniture that makes it look more like a living room than a shoreline. Clearly, the people who dragged those chairs down to the river would rather be outdoors that anywhere else.