Our palatial mediterranean home was designed and built by ourselves as our dream house. It took 5 years to build. We wanted to build a new home with all modern amenities that felt like it had heritage and history. For example, the facade incorporates Jerusalem stone, and it is furnished with decorative antiques. On this site, we had been living in a house originally built as coast guard barracks for the 20 years since we bought it. For all those years, we had dreamed, saved and planned to build a new home one day. The house is designed to celebrate nature. It faces Moriches Bay on one side and a canal on the other. It fronts the water but also extends up to face the sky for bird, moon and star gazing. As lovers of nature, we also took upon ourselves the challenge of creating a magnificent perennial garden in a salty bay front environment. This is an evolving challenge as we continuously test various species for their tolerance of our windy conditions.
In building the house, we used the best materials from around the globe which were custom designed and built specifically for this house. It is a gem we love and we are hoping that our guests feel the delicate energy and reverence we feel to nature as we live in it.