Approaching the Showhouse

The 2010 Hampton Designer Showhouse is located on a flag lot in Sag Harbor, NY. Close to Long Beach, the spec house by Frank Bodenchak of Saunders Realty is situated in a wooded lot and the driveway meanders through the woods with an attractive approach to the circle front drive. Asking price for the house: $5.5 million. Amenities: 10,800 sf, 5 acre lot, 7 bedrooms, 8.5 baths, basement movie theater with seating for 12, 2,300 sf outdoor porches, 20 x 46 foot gunite pool, 8-person spa, water sunbed, 2-tier fire pit, and tennis court.

Roundabout

The circle turnaround drive in front of the showhouse is planted in boxwoods and begonias, forming a peace sign. The busy preparations to get the house building and details finished while the interior designers were moving in were anything but peaceful - yet it all worked and the house was ready for its opening night gala on Saturday, July 24. The house is open to the public 7 days a week through September 5.

Shingled

The showhouse is a vernacular Hamptons home, shingled and rambling for over 10,000 square feet. Irwin designed the "second bedroom" which is the dormer on the second floor just over the side porch, designed by diSalvo Interiors. FYI: pray for rain so all that new sod stays nice and green.

To the Pool

The gigantic pool and spa complex sprawls the entire length of the house. Set in the hill and literally carved out of the wooded lot, it's a great design that boasts simple waterfalls. We liked this main walk out to the pool from double doors at the end of the living room. When you enter the front hall from the porch, you get an expansive view of the pool from across the room. All outdoor furnishings supplied by Couture Outdoor by Covertech in Southampton. Note: this picture was taken before the spacers between the pavers were covered with sod.

Side Porch

Comfortable seating groups are the nucleus of the side porch stylings from diSalvo Interiors.

Relax

Side porch panoramic shot showing conversation groupings.

Take a Dip

The side porch featured this outdoor shower area.

Den Porch

The beautiful back porch off the den has Christina Murphy Interiors' expert touch and a cool view of the pool and loungers.

Kitchen Porch

Off the kitchen and breakfast room there's a delightful porch that overlooks the spa area and pool. The showhouse has a zillion nooks and crannies for relaxation, serving meals, or reading a good book. Here we see a portion of designer Nancy Pearson's work which includes bright pops of colorful pillows and Oscar de la Renta Home outdoor furniture from Century.

Glam Tables

Gilded tables on the kitchen porch.

Studio Porch

Portuguese-born designer Elsa Soyars added chic seating to the studio porch, along with fine art, including this sculpture by Michael Chiarello.

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The showhouse garage has been turned into a boutique and vintage store, set up by Sandi Berman of Manhattan-based DeLuxe - with couture jewelry, and objet d'art - and Skyscraper - 20th Century furnishings and accessories.  The showhouse and a portion of the boutique's sales benefit the Southampton Hospital.

Sandi's lucite chairs were scooped up on the first day of the showhouse. No wonder!

Mod

This Pucci-print lucite stool, an item for sale in the showhouse boutique, is stunning.

Garage Sale

More vintage fine furnishings for sale in the showhouse boutique.

Objet D'art

Be sure to check out the ever-changing items in the showhouse garage. Each is for sale.

Loft

After you're done shopping, go upstairs to the loft above the garage, a fully decorated space that's simply wonderful, realized by LSID's Lisa Sternfeld. Lisa's theme is "deconstructed design," and you'll find a JONAS sofa that hasn't been fully upholstered (like one of those watches where you see all the mechanism through clear housing). JONAS is one of NYC's highest-end upholsterers.

The Big Reveal

Lisa Sternfeld's Jonas sofa, theming her "deconstructed" loft space. The burlap wall treatments harmonized well with the partially-upholstered sofa and other furnishings.

Favorite Chair

This chair in the loft was one of our showhouse favorites, with its comfortable profile and sassy "deconstructed" upholstery design.

Corner Vignette

Corner of the loft, showing a collection of vintage luggage.

Before: Showhouse Living Room

The living or great room of the showhouse was in this stage of construction about one month before the house opened on July 25. The space is 2.5 stories tall, making it a real decorating challenge. The 22-foot white stacked stone fireplace extends the entire height of the space and molding and wainscoting break up the visual volume. A window wall looks out to the pool and spa area in the backyard, with double doors leading outside. Behind the property are 62 acres of preserved woodlands.

Welcome

Flash forward to July 25 and the opening day of the showhouse. The entry foyer and living room are fully decorated staged byPatricia Healing and Dan Barsanti of HB Home (Westport, Greenwich, New York, East Hampton).

Entry Foyer

Designed by HB Home, Morgik Metal fabricated three swagged glass lanterns with stunning gilded leading. They also solved the problem of clunky spec home windows by covering them with massive plantation shutters.

Living Room

HB Home stacked quartz crystal "logs" in the soaring fireplace and added white pairs of sofas with navy accents to form a conversation grouping.

Aerial View

The second floor features a balcony catwalk that connects the two upper wings of the home. We took this photo looking down at the living room to give you a better idea of HB Home's work.

Den

New York and Stockholm based designer Patrik Lonn created a serene and art-filled den, located to the left of the entry foyer and living room and extending from the front of the showhouse to the backyard. Low-slung bookshelves span one wall and frame conversation groupings and a desk/home office space. The use of horizontal stripes on the curtains adds more visual height to the room.

Den Grouping

Patrik Lonn's den was a convenient hub, with open access to the living room and doors walking out to the wrap-around front and side porch as well as the back den porch. This seating arrangement fronts a bar cabinet, perfect for staging drinks for porch or poolside entertaining.

Before: Kitchen & Breakfast Room

About one month before the showhouse opening, each room was in some stage of assembly and construction. The kitchen underwent a dramatic transformation in a very short period of time. It was amazing to see workers scurrying around, plumbers installing, and the house electrician sweating bullets to get the house inspector approved.

Cooking

The showhouse kitchen is now complete, and gleaming in white marble splashes and subway tile. The Viking range is one of many appliances in the up-to-the-second kitchen designed by Hamptons-based Robert Bakes of Bakes and Company.

Island

Bakes and Company installed an expansive island in their showhouse kitchen. This photo was taken before the island was set for a luncheon for four, complete with industrial chic barstools. Bakes chose to put white touches everywhere, expressing the vernacular for an understated, yet posh Hamptons kitchen.

Appliance Central

Another view of the Bakes and Company kitchen at the showhouse.

Before: Family Room

The breakfast nook of the family room is getting its final coats of paint around the windows, just in time for decorating.

Breakfast Is Served

The family room, just off the kitchen, and the nearby powder room were designed by foley&cox, New York. Their Ralph Lauren Home roots are evident in the clean, crisp, tailored look they gave the eat-in bay, with sweeping wrap-around cafe curtains, hanging orchids, and an expansive chandelier.

Table Setting

The foley&cox family room table setting is detail oriented, crisp, and oh-so Hamptons (we love the little moss-covered pots for place names).

Studio

Designers Joe Lucas and Parrish Chilcoat of Lucas Studio designed a fresh, creative studio. The staged set featured purply tones in the wallpaper and artwork, and the easel vignette is positioned nicely to catch the afternoon sun.

Layered

The studio features many layers of finishes, from luxurious throws to textured rugs and artist supplies.

Eclectic

The sofa and conversation grouping in the studio combine mid-century, modern, traditional, and cottage chic furnishings and accessories. The lantern sconces over the sofa are fantastic.

Before: Dining Room

The formal dining room in the showhouse is immediately to the right, off the entry foyer. It's open to the foyer, kitchen and back hall, and butler's pantry making it a hub for entertaining.

Formal and Fresh

Beautiful teal, yellow, and salmon color notes abound in designer Richard Keith Langham's formal dining room. Formal window treatments mirror the color tones in the elegant area rug, the wall color ties in with the glowing fabric-covered chandelier, while an aviary print from Rafael Gallery mirrors the punch of color in the dining room chair upholstery.

Butler Pantry

Old Town Crossing in Southampton styled the butler's pantry, just off the formal dining room. The stone-textured wall coverings invited touching (we confess), and the champagne party silver sparkled in the chandelier light.

Champagne

The champagne is plentify in the butler's pantry,

Back Hall

Boris Abromovich from Couture Interiors in Merrick, NY designed the decorative venetian plaster treatments in the back hall connecting the family room, downstairs guest suite and garage.

Venetian Plaster

Closeup of the detailed plaster design work in the back hall.

Downstairs Guest Suite

Southampton's Brady Design took a classic, architectural approach to the downstairs guest suite, with crisp pops of blue and orange. The bed area is fronted by a sofa conversation grouping and writing desk. To the left of the bed is the bath (each of the five bedrooms and the loft over the garage had their own on-suite bathroom).

Letters to Mother

The Brady Design downstairs guest suite had a writing desk corner and lots of sunny window expanses.

Upstairs Front Bedroom

New York designer Arden Stephenson shows a flair for fine fabrics and bed linens in her elegant twin bed ensemble, fronting a sunny yellow wall color she custom mixed from several Ralph Lauren hues.

Back Bedroom

New York designer Jack Levy introduced this elegant four-postered bronze-tree-branch bed. The organic form of the bed informed his choice of fabrics and the Ruffled Window window treatments.

Sit a Spell

Jack Levy's bedroom loveseat mirrors the deep concord grape grasscloth walls of his room and provides a freshness that harmonizes with the window and bed curtains.

Henry Hanger

Jack Levy's bedroom closet recycled his leftover window and bed curtain fabric. Henry Hanger in Nashua, NH created these custom padded covered hangers for Jack. It's a dressy way to complete the look of any bedroom.

Upstairs Bedroom Bath

Jack Levy's bath mirrors the bedroom's purple color scheme - such a "now" color - with simple purple piping on the linens.

Master Bedroom Study

New York designer Kevin Isbell relaxes just before his press interviews - the showhouse is presented by Traditional Home magazine and they were in full force prior to the showhouse opening, interviewing designers and photographing their rooms. Kevin took the small master bedroom study and turned it into a luxurious lounge and office space filled with visual punch, from Moroccan-influenced furnishings to the window treatments which mirror antique book endpapers.

Details and Flourishes

A John Rosselli shimmering console table in Kevin Isbell's study features a few nods to the Hamptons vernacular, such as the lobster lamp and seashells. The deep chocolates in the room provide a counterbalance to the blues, oranges, and creams.

Entry to Study

Kevin Isbell made every inch of his space count as he tarted up the small foyer to his master bedroom study with a console table and an organic table lamp sporting a shade made from his window treatment fabric.

Dipped

Kevin Isbell's upstairs bedroom study was topped off by a chandelier dipped in plaster of paris.

Bamboo Molding Details

Our eye was drawn to the bamboo molding delineating where the walls met the tray ceiling of Kevin Isbell's bedroom study. They seamlessly morph into curtains which frame the space between the small entry foyer and the main study.

Master Bedroom

Everything was mirrored and glam in the master bedroom, by Lillian August, the Norwalk, CT based home furnishings and design firm. The Ann Gish bedding shimmered along with the rest of the reflective furnishings.

Good Views

A small sitting room "turret" off the upstairs master bedroom sported a silvered, pie-slice ceiling and great views of the property.

Master Bathroom

The master bathroom was designed with pale blue, cream, and soft white country French touches by Susanne Kelley of Bakes and Company.

Vanity

The double vanity area of the master bathroom.

Good Grooming

A tablescape closeup from the vanity area of the master bathroom.

Before: Upstairs Study

New York designer Irwin Weiner ASID found his room at the showhouse to be quite challenging. The ceiling was the first hurdle. It formed what's called a "milk carton," where the walls form a tray that extends to a small flat roof space.