Ocean Home Magazine (Digital)

This summer, I had the privilege of heading to two exceptional design conferences in beautiful and storied coastal communities: Nantucket and Newport. In mid-July, I hopped on the fast ferry from Hyannis to Nantucket to not only visit one of my favorite places in the world, the Grey Lady, but also attend lectures on one of my favorite subjects, home design. Nantucket By Design was excellent, and if you are a coastal home enthusiast, it is a must-attend event. Cochairs Marla Sanford and Bill Richards did an amazing job with securing incredible speakers—truly a who’s who in the interior design industry. Interior designer Ken Fulk was the keynote speaker. We also heard from renowned interior designers Miles Redd, Mary McDonald, David Kaihoi, and Keita Turner on mixing antiques and vintage for…

MARY GRAUERHOLZ Mary is a freelance feature writer who focuses on architecture, style, sustainability, and health. In her previous career as a journalist, she won many awards for project management, editing, and writing. Since then, she has written for a variety of magazines, newspapers, and websites, including the Boston Globe. J. MICHAEL WELTON As an architecture, art, and design writer, Welton has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Dwell magazine. He is architecture critic for The News & Observer in Raleigh, North Carolina, and is author of Drawing from Practice: Architects and the Meaning of Drawing Freehand (Routledge: 2015). He is also the editor and publisher of a digital design magazine at architectsandartisans.com. JENNIE NUNN Contributor Jennie Nunn is a former staff editor at magazines including…

On the edge of a sliver of land on Drum Point in St. Michael’s, facing Maryland’s Chesapeake Bay, stands a home whose architect outsmarted every restriction imposed upon it. “The lot had major constraints,” says Jonathan Rivera, owner of the Woodbine, Maryland, architecture firm that bears his name. “It’s a couple of acres, but it has a tight footprint because of setbacks off the water.” It was also the site of a dream home for Rivera’s clients, John and Tina Galdieri. John’s the owner of a high-end charter aircraft operation—piloting a Gulfstream G-6 across the pond to London is all in a day’s work for him—and Tina’s the head coach of the Baltimore Ravens cheerleading team. They found this lot during the pandemic. John hopped a fence to explore it,…

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“The living room is drenched in sunlight and shadows throughout the day. When the glass and steel doors slide into pockets, it feels like the contained backyard, lined with massive solid stone slabs, is part of the interior living space. The angled reclaimed cypress ceiling extends to the outside awning, accentuating the connection to the backyard.”—Gretchen Krebs and Ian Read, cofounders of Medium Plenty, Sonoma and Oakland, California To help transform their three-story home in San Francisco, a couple enlisted the expertise of Gretchen Krebs and Ian Read, cofounders of Medium Plenty in Oakland and Sonoma. But they wanted the home to feel natural, lived-in, and conducive to the activities of their two young children. “The house needed to be livable for a family of four that entertains often, requiring…

“We wanted to create a light-filled kitchen with easy flow between the adjacent dining room and great room. To add warmth and definition to the vaulted space, we used dark bronze painted wood-framed windows, custom finished pine beams, ceiling paneling, and shiplap wall paneling, custom rift-cut white oak millwork and cabinetry with a dark stained island as an accent, and white oak flooring.”—Tammy Angaran, Project Manager, PKA Architecture, Minneapolis, Minnesota 1. Mont Blanc Quartzite, honed. “We were looking for a light countertop that was both natural stone and durable. The Mont Blanc was just the right blend of overall lightness, variation in color, and warm tones to fit the palette we were trying to achieve,” says Kristine Anderson. 2. Rift-cut white oak, custom charcoal gray stain. “The island was given…