Hamptons motel as soon as owned by Donna Karan turns into A Room on the Seashore

A Bridgehampton bungalow that includes a redwood forest planted by tv persona Martha Stewart has been redesigned as a bohemian hideaway for summer season seashore seekers.

The boutique Hamptons resort known as A Room on the Seashore opened in Could, and is situated lower than three kilometres from the Atlantic in a well-liked New York vacation hall.

Co-owners Charles Lemonides and Lucy Swift Weber, daughter of distinguished artwork and design critic Nicholas Fox Weber, designed the inn by revamping a 10-room cinder block construction with a storied historical past.

By way of the early 1990s the constructing was the holiday house of American businesswoman and tv persona Martha Stewart and daughter Alexis. They added two rows of towering redwoods on the 1.5-acre lot, which now type a signature trait of A Room on the Seashore.

“We noticed the timber from the street and that is what finally suckered us into the undertaking,” Lemonides advised Dezeen.

For a short time A Room on the Seashore was additionally owned by American designer Donna Karan and her daughter Gabby Karan de Felice, who made modifications to the visitor room bogs and constructed an out of doors pool.

The only-storey resort nonetheless boasts the unique bungalow roof and structural footprint, however virtually each different ingredient was touched by the first-time hoteliers.

“Laws on this space are tremendous strict as a result of we’re dropping cornfields and gaining ugly ‘McMansions’, which is tragic,” stated Weber.

“One of many issues going for us was that we did not wish to develop the footprint, which saved us a headache with constructing permits and all that.”

The majority of updates by Lemonides and Weber had been beauty, moreover crucial plumbing upgrades and changing the laundry room right into a dry sauna.

The duo additionally lined the naked cinder block facade with cedar wooden, and constructed a wooden patio that runs the size of the constructing.

As a substitute of partitioning the patio with every visitor room, the house was stored fluid and “convivial” with Serena & Lily lounge furnishings, vintage bar units and retro decor.

An unique metal body jutting from the roof will function a makeshift pergola with lanterns and budding vines.

“The concept there may be to encourage friends to socialize, however every room additionally has entry to a non-public courtyard within the again, which did not exist earlier than,” Weber describes.

Eight mid-century American motels reborn as boutique lodging

For the rear gardens, the couple labored with Charlie Marder, a Hamptons panorama architect who planted the Stewarts’ large redwoods 30 years earlier.

Seven of the guestrooms are uniform at five-by-five metres – the everyday measurement of a mid-century motel room – whereas others are barely extra capacious.

Bogs sit behind sliding wooden partitions and have tadelakt plaster tubs or bluestone slab showers that open to the rear courtyard.

Weber’s ethereal design is each beach-breezy and nostalgic, with private touches like hand-picked tsotchkes and a watercolour of coastal Eire painted by her grandmother. For the resort’s reception desk, Weber sourced the prop desk from Roger Sterling’s workplace within the tv present Mad Males.

“We actually tried to make every little thing as good as we may as a result of we’re fussy friends ourselves.”

A Room on the Seashore is amongst various motels reborn as boutique lodging. Others in New York embrace the Scribner’s Catskill Lodge, a 1960s motor lodge that was up to date by Studio Tack.