After Hurricane Sandy, a couple puts their Ranch-style home on stilts to avoid future floods When artist Maya Schindler and her husband moved across the country from Los Angeles to Long Island, New York, for work at a local university, Schindler had a grand vision for what the couple?s new home would be. She wanted a Victorian?something to renovate?that she could fill with modern furniture: Kartell meets towers, turrets, and dormers.
So, naturally, the couple ended up in a shingle-sided ranch-style home with crisp white interior walls?and the entire thing on stilts that seat it several feet off the ground. How" The story involves a hurricane, two renovations, and a government program (and no, this is not Two Truths and a Lie). It was a bit of an accident that the couple found the home they ultimately ended up buying, Schindler explains; they looked at what she guesses must have been 60 houses, none of them to her taste. Then she called an area agent, who suggested the couple look in his neighborhood in the town of Brookhaven.

In the open living space, a vintage Barcelona daybed sits opposite a sofa Schindler found at auction, spruced up with new cushions. The coffee tabletop was Schindler?s grandparents, from their home in Jerusalem. ?I remember we used to have 6 or 8 people around it,? she says. To the left is a Jotul Black Bear wood-fired stove, which Schindler says she chose for its traditional look and efficiency.

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