The Hamptons is known for its beautiful summer days, but this property offers a longer high season. The autumn days are especially beautiful, given the surrounding gardens, trees and a magnificent long view. The house overlooks land conserved by the family for the purpose of introducing a native grass meadow to what once was potato fields. The original house and ancillary structures and terraces have been altered in small ways over the years under the direction of the same designer. This recent, more encompassing renovation completes the vision imagined by the family years ago.

The stair in the Living Room leads to the Primary Suite along a corridor separating
front façade windows from private spaces.

Reorganizing the path to the Guest Bedroom allowed for an added layer of privacy as well as activating a library as part of the Guest Suite.

The kitchen stair leads to the children’s suite of rooms. A laylight brings
natural sunlight into an interior hallway.

A Laundry Room was removed and the Kitchen expanded. Additional space was found to add a pantry. The back stair pours into the room and a newel curls around a jamb to engage the dining room. The Family Room, open to the Kitchen, brings in a panoramic view of the garden and fields beyond.

A screened porch addition was constructed in an earlier phase. New doors and windows, many reconfigured to respect the classical norms of an arts and crafts house, were major aspect of the renovation. The screen of windows along one side of the screened porch allowed light entering the porch to be magnified by the reflection against the light colors of the porch before entering into the Living Room.

“There is a myth, sometimes widespread, that a person need only do inner work…that a man is entirely responsible for his own problems; and that to cure himself, he need only change himself…the fact is, a person is so formed by his surroundings, that his state of harmony depends entirely on his harmony with his surroundings.”

-Christopher Alexander