Photography by Dustin Aksland and Eric Striffler, courtesy of Elizabeth Roberts.
We’ve been fans of architect Elizabeth Roberts for a while now—we included her Brooklyn brownstone in our first Remodelista book—so we were curious when we spotted her Bellport, Long Island, weekend house on Instagram. We immediately emailed Elizabeth to get the story.
“I made a conscious decision to lean toward the feel of a beach house—with white floors and walls and simple, summery details,” she says.
Elizabeth removed built-in shelving in the living room and added French doors to access the screened porch and the pool and yard beyond.
In the dining room, the architect added a wall-to-wall built-in bench with denim cushions and storage cubbies for board games.
The view of the dining room from the sun porch.
The kitchen cabinets are oak, salvaged from a defunct pharmacy.
The countertops are walnut and white marble.
Elizabeth had a sink skirt sewn from a vintage Guatemalan textile.
The kitchen pendant lights are Hektar from Ikea.
An original interior window looks into the living room from the kitchen.
The entryway is lined in the same salvaged oak as the kitchen.
Elizabeth used a Gjöra bed from Ikea in the master bedroom.
Elizabeth added a row of Shaker peg rails on the far wall of the bedroom (for more, see Christine’s post Remodeling 101: How Shaker Peg Rails Saved My Summer Sanity).
The twin beds in her son’s room were left by the previous owners.
Elizabeth painted the lower half of the master bathroom paneling white.
A dark blue glass-fronted cabinet was part of an Ikea limited run.
Elizabeth bought the sun porch sofa at auction and had it painted blue and reupholstered.
A Knotty Bubbles chandelier by Lindsey Adelman hangs above the round dining table in the screened porch.
The sun porch opens onto the pool and back yard.
The cedar shingle-clad house dates from 1850; the screened dining porch at left was added later.
The red barn at the front of the house has extra beds for guests.
Architect Elizabeth Roberts, her husband, Michael McKnight, and their son, Dean.