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Southampton Village

This Southampton, New York home consisted of three distinct, connected pavilions arranged in an ‘L’. Two were former hotel guest cottages, from the 1920’s and the third was a nondescript addition completed in 1976.

Although the owners truly enjoyed their home, they recognized a number of shortcomings over the years: a lack of ‘arrival’, crisscrossing circulation, an incohesive quality to the interior architecture and a strong, visual connection between indoors and outdoors.

The solution was to design the site around an outdoor ‘room’ defined by a raised bluestone patio, brick and cedar benches and a brick, outdoor fireplace. A clear path of circulation was designed to lead from car to front door with vertical elements (chimney, outdoor fireplace and entry tower) clad in White Lorraine brick as destination points along the way.

The new location of the ‘front’ door/entry creates a direct connection to both living room and dining room, while the bedroom hall is easily closed off with a sliding barn door.

Ceilings were raised in all rooms to follow the slope of the roofs, existing rough hewn beams were exposed, floor to ceiling windows were rearranged to maximize the connection to the garden and patio. *Evening entertaining at the home is often extended with a warming outdoor fire and old-fashioned smores.