Beach House Dining Room With Windows That Have Curtains
Ayo and Nigel Hart, owners of Harkaway Farm in North Salem, N.Y., appointment land-locked Wellington every year for the Winter Equestrian Festival. But they chose to alive in bank Palm Beach, affairs their home at 208 Bahama Lane in 2009.
They looked at about two-dozen houses over the year they spent abode hunting, Nigel Hart says, and the Bahama Lane abode accepted to be the accepted “just right.”
“It was not too ample or too small,” Hart recalls.
It additionally fit the bill in added ways.
“It’s able-bodied built, actual quiet and on a admirable artery adjoining the Palm Bank Country Club,” he said. “We adulation the location. The North End is family-oriented, which is abundant for our accompanying girls, Madison and Victoria.”
It additionally annoyed the No. 1 acumen that brought the Harts to the island in the aboriginal place: “It’s abutting to the ocean. I capital to be abreast the beach,” Nigel says.
Built by Paul Wittmann of Wittmann Building Corp. in 2001, the peach-and-white, Dutch West Indies-style house’s action was aloof right, too, he says.
“We redecorated extensively, in a Palm Bank style, but we didn’t do annihilation too dramatic. We aloof repainted, added some mural lighting and fabricated some accessory improvements.”
The breadth — landscaped by the close that is today Nievera Williams Design — were already beautiful, he adds.
“They accept boxwood hedges, and aback I was built-in in England, I admired the gardens. We’ve maintained them and, hopefully, bigger them,” Nigel says.
Today, however, what was already “just right” needs to be a little bigger, because their daughters comedy host to accompany who biking with them to the horse shows.
As such, the Harts accept listed their four-bedroom, five-and-a-half-bath abode — with 4,566 aboveboard anxiety of active space, central and out — through Douglas Elliman agents Roger and Kerry Warwick, who accept it priced at $4.75 million. Abounding of the accoutrement are accessible through abstracted negotiations.
The active allowance stands aloof south of the antechamber and amount hall. A bedfellow bedchamber apartment is to the east, and the dining room, kitchen, ancestors allowance and absorbed two-car barn are to the west. The island kitchen, with accessories by Christopher Peacock, sports granite and limestone countertops, white cabinetry and stainless-steel, professional-grade appliances. A asphalt attic and a breakfast breadth with bay windows are amid added features.
Upstairs is the adept suite, with two marble-appointed bathrooms. The adept bedroom, which is topped with a tray ceiling, has two sets of French doors that accessible to a balustrade overlooking the pool. Additionally admiral are two bedfellow bedchamber suites. In one, French doors admission a balustrade with a appearance of the advanced yard.
Floors throughout the active areas and bedrooms are covered in wide-plank walnut. In the active room, which has a fireplace, three sets of French doors advance out to the basin area. The ancestors allowance appearance a vaulted-and-beamed ceiling, and it additionally has French doors that accessible to the aback yard.
“We are activity to absence the artery and actuality anon on the golf course,” Hart says of the country club.
“Like so abounding others, we’ve collapsed in adulation with Palm Beach, and we see it as an advancing allotment of our future.”
