Showing posts with label Nantucket. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nantucket. Show all posts

Tuesday, 7 December 2010

Cottage on Nantucket

Today we are visiting a typical shingle style cottage on Nantucket. Full of light and colours, and details in every room which give it an overall nautical feeling.


White painted Adirondack chairs in the wide front porch which was added to the house.


A schooner painting by William P. Stubbs gets prominent placement in the entry hall.


A whale carving that once hung on the outside of a ’Sconset house dominates the living room with its whitewashed walls. Antique chestnut floors run throughout the house.


The window seat wraps the perimeter of the living room.


Built-in wooden benches line the patio and serve as additional seating for entertaining.


Windsor style chairs surround a reproduction lace-maker’s table in the dining room.


The table has an end drawer for storing linens.


The kitchen’s tiled countertop and green faux-painted cabinets add to the home’s cottage look.


The master bedroom’s open bookshelves hold an array of Nantucket baskets, some of which the homeowner made.


Olive green subway tiles, twin sinks, mirrors and light fixtures in the master bathroom.


The wife's office area is part of the bedroom suite.

Photos: Michael Partenio
All images and information from here.

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Thursday, 30 September 2010

Home on Nantucket

Three sisters share this house by the sea on Nantucket. J. Gwynne Thorsen was in charge of the architectural and interior design. Unfortunately there are not many photographs of the interiors so these will have to do.


The entrance façade features a pergola covered with New Dawn roses.


An oil by Ben Austrian, which introduces the living room’s rabbit theme, hangs above the mantel.


Displayed in the bedroom of the upstairs tern suite are 18th- and 19th-century dog portraits.


The red hummingbird suite on the second floor opens to a private balcony. A pair of hand-colored 18th-century botanical prints are near the banquette.


Dutch doors allow a view from the kitchen, at the south, through the house to the ocean.


Antique kismos chairs around the dining table.

Photography by
Peter Vanderwarker


All images and information from Architectural Digest.

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