Island life conjures up many matters, from shacky shingled beach cottages to crude Caribbean huts. While I really like a typical cozy beach cottage bedecked in cabin shingles outside and conventional beadboard inside, recent Tours have me rethinking the very best ways to enjoy island settings. In such cases, grand windows and doors take the place of small shuttered windows; minimum detailing brings the attention to the views outside. Changing from artisan fashion to modern can be a real shock; see if it entices you.
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1. Kiawah Island, South Carolina
This house takes full advantage of its lagoon views and resembles a lantern when lit up at night.
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Expansive walls of glass blur the lines between inside and out. Motorized shades provide privacy and shade when needed. Obviously, at a typical one-house-on-top-of-another beach community, living in a fishbowl would be ideal, but in this setting it functions.
The timber floors and ceiling, alongside the tall stone fireplace, add warmth into this wide-open space.
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Upstairs, the bedroom’s big glass windows and higher ceiling make a towering treehouselike escape. While I really like the coziness of this cramped typical beach house bedrooms I’m used to, I imagine this could be a very relaxing way to enjoy island life.
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Richard Bubnowski Design LLC
2. Long Beach Island, New Jersey
Moving the East Coast, this house unites the region’s traditional shingle style with modern industrial fashion.
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Recycled wood and vintage chairs include rustic and groovy touches, while large ceilings, marine lights, big swaths of white paint and metal beams and railings give a general modern appearance.
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Horizontally oriented pine planks are a modern spin on traditional beach cabin beadboard. They create a cozier area for the mattress, function as a visual headboard and create the space seem bigger.
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Narofsky Architecture + ways2design
3. Long Island, New York
Right up the Atlantic coast, Beacon Hill Colony was once a community of sand and gravel pit workers’ shacks. People have been snapping up this waterfront land, tearing down existing shacks and rebuilding; those homeowners wanted to honor the website, their neighbors and the ground when they hired architect Stuart Narofsky.
Because of height and size constraints, Narofsky developed a brilliant plan to build down to the hillside. This maximized space and views while nestling the house into the topography.
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Narofsky brought in recovered wood from New York City brownstones for the ceiling. Its beauty and texture allowed him to depart the ceiling open into the beams, adding elevation.
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The wood grain on the modern cabinets emphasizes horizontal lines.
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4. Nantucket Island, Massachusetts
Farther up the coast, Workshop/apd created a house with a modern feel interior that blends in with the shingled cottages the island is so famous for.
The two-story, spacious floor is a delightful surprise. Clean lines, a cathedral ceiling, white paint and organic lighting create the house appear much bigger than it is.
Not everything is strictly unadorned and white; the family incorporates collections of their favorite items into the house with brilliant editing and composition, and without hesitation.
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Wendy K. Leigh
5. Raft Island, Puget Sound, Washington
This contemporary house was a labor of love, made by an architect because of his parents and filled with artwork and collectibles from all four of their grown children.
Wendy K. Leigh
The house maximizes the view of Puget Sound. The live-edge table was created by the architect’s father from a sequoia tree.
Wendy K. Leigh
The guest toilet unites a concrete counter top with ceramic tiles. The architect and his mum wrote an assortment of classic metal linotypes atop the tile to create a exceptional backsplash.
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Inform us So, what exactly did you believe? Would you turn your thought of island dwelling on its mind and forgo per week in a typical beach house for a week at a clean-lined modern casa like them? Tell us in the Comments section.
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