When a good friend reached out to rising architect Matthew Chua, of Chua Structure, to design his first home, he accepted with nervousness and pleasure. Regardless of not having designed a home earlier than, you’d by no means comprehend it after wanting via the pictures. The open and ethereal home, positioned in Water Mills, New York, beside a tree farm in Southampton, makes an exquisite, trendy assertion inside its inexperienced environment.
The promise to attenuate affect to website was met by positioning the brand new house within the precise location as the unique one and by retrofitting the present pool.
The residence’s exterior seems all black with an higher quantity wrapped in black standing seam zinc, resting atop a collection of black stained mahogany and black pigmented concrete partitions.
On the again of the home, two structural beams needed to be put in as a way to create the cantilevered balcony with out columns. The balcony gives unobstructed south-facing views of the property.
The all-black, customized kitchen is each smooth and minimalist, outfitted with Gaggenau fixtures. The world has direct entry to the yard and when the sliding glass doorways are open, the areas turn out to be good for entertaining.
The kitchen and eating room are related to the double-height lounge, additionally with seamless entry to the again patio. Constructed over the picket staircase with its easy, hand-carved handrail is a skylight that fills the middle of the house with pure gentle because it adjustments all through the day.
Due to the uneven website, they had been in a position to embody a walk-in basement filled with pure gentle.
On the highest flooring, the principle bed room encompasses a nook of floor-to-ceiling home windows with views that may be taken in from the mattress.
Structure: Chua Structure
Inside Design: Gregory Rockwell
Stylist: Rebecca Bartoshesky
Pictures: Eric Petschek
