A Fashion Buyer’s Danish-Inspired Getaway on Shelter Island
When London-born fashion buyer (and Remodelista reader) Lisa Jones emailed us with before and after photographs of her recent home renovation, we instantly wanted to swap sources. Where did she get the incredible daybed in the master bedroom and the simple white mat in the bathroom"
Here’s the story. When Jones and her husband, James Hyatt, stumbled upon a dated, dark, wood-paneled bungalow on New York’s remote Shelter Island, she saw the perfect opportunity to dive into her obsession with design?and create the ideal vacation home. “It wasn?t necessarily love at first sight,” she says, “but we saw the potential and loved the abnormal angles and the undeniable beauty of the position on the lake. This was a great opportunity at an affordable price.” Over the course of a year, she ditched the dark wood paneling, updated the floors, and knocked down interior walls. The result" A bright, lakefront home that’s a perfect backdrop for a fashion (and design) buyer’s carefully sourced trove?bargains included. Here’s a look inside.
Photography by Jonathan Hokklo.
Above: Another major change" The flooring, which was half white oak (“they were very yellow,” Jones says) and half terracotta tile. “We wanted to create the look of Scandinavian white oiled floors,” she says. “To save on costs, we kept the existing oak floor and matched it with new white oak planks (to replace the terraco...
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