A crisp white color scheme in a beach getaway is one thing, but when designer Celerie Kemble’s clients told her they wanted to live in their Hamptons house year-round, she knew it needed to shift in a seasonless direction. “The goal was to make things bright, textural, and warm but still hold up to beach house life with children and dogs,” Kemble says.
To give the minimalist interiors an eclectic spin, she and designer Kristen Blood put texture and color at the forefront. Woven and patterned wallpaper now cover the walls in nearly every room, and flatweave wall-to-wall carpeting and custom rugs, suitable for any weather, pad the floors. The inspiration for the rich color palette came from the family’s art, with its “cobalt, beet, olive, turmeric, and coffee,” Blood says.
Every surface in the house has a strong materiality, whether it is faux suede chairs, Madagascar grasscloth, tessellated shell, or Moroccan berbers…. There is just so much to feel.
