Earlier than & After: In Maine, a Seaside Midcentury Cut up-Degree Will get a Moody Makeover

Issues aren’t all the time black and white. Until, in fact, you’re standing inside a house designed by Abigail Shea, founding father of Studio Eastman. Tempered with texture, Abigail’s trademark impartial interiors mix California cool with East Coast ingenuity, a combo that makes monochrome really feel something however narrow-minded.

Take Abigail’s newest challenge with architect Kevin Browne, for instance. Nestled into the craggy, coastal criminal of Rockport, Maine, what was as soon as a cavernous and uneven mid-century house is now a (largely) ethereal retreat. “The format left some actually tight areas with tiny home windows,” Abigail says. “As an alternative of making an attempt to pressure these areas to adjust to the remainder of the house’s shiny palette, I selected to embrace the darkness.” Washes of earthy, near-black hues—like muted inexperienced and charcoal blue—imbue areas just like the again portion of the kitchen with stress and intrigue.

The outcome, as Abigail places it, is “a contemporary household house that, though mid-century impressed, isn’t too on the nostril.”

Let’s have a look.

Images by Erin Little.

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