The building is a classic original 1960's Horace Gifford/Harry Bates beach house in Fire Island Pines, NY. It is a 37'x37' square on plan, divided internally into three zones: a living-dining-kitchen zone facing the bay, a central core of circulation-storage-bathrooms and a strip of 3 bedrooms facing inland. The bedrooms and storage/ bath are at a higher elevation than the living space, linked together by a floating catwalk and open riser steps. The interior and exterior is clad with 12" wide Western Redwood planks.
The original kitchen and its enclosure, was removed and the new kitchen is open to the living space. The open kitchen does not just function better but it also reinforces the purity and symmetry of the space.  It is a clean and simple white Bulthaup kitchen with grey counters – it blends into the space and works beautifully with the existing Redwood walls. 
The work on the exterior consisted of reconstructing the bay side deck to include a swimming pool. A key design decision was to stagger the levels of the pool instead of constructing it at the original deck level.  A series of stepped decks interspersed with generous sunbathing platforms lead down to the pool and beyond to the beach. The steps provide a variety of places to lounge and sit around the pool. This design reinforced the three-dimensional “terraced” section all the way from the bedrooms and circulation space to the living space of the original design to the new outdoor living spaces.

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