Clean Lines Inside, Ocean Air Outside — A Home Refined from Top to Bottom

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This Mill Bay project unfolded across two years and four distinct scopes: a main floor renovation, a full kitchen gut, an upstairs bathroom overhaul, repairing and re-finishing the exterior decks at both the main house and the beach house. Each part of the project had its own brief, but the thread running through all of it was the same high-end finishes, clean results, and work that makes a home feel more deliberate and more like itself.

The main floor renovation started with the ceiling. The existing beam look was framed over to create clean, uninterrupted lines, a change that shifts the entire character of a room without touching the walls or floor. New electrical was laid out to suit the updated space, soundproofing was installed, tile was set at the entry doors, and custom hand-built bookshelves were designed and fabricated for the living area. These are the kinds of considered details that accumulate into a room that simply feels better to be in.

The kitchen was taken back to the studs; a complete gut that gave the layout a proper reset. Rather than replacing the existing cabinetry wholesale, the door and drawer fronts were refinished and repainted, preserving the bones of what was there while bringing the look fully in line with the updated space. It's a decision that takes more care than a straight replacement but delivers a result that fits the room.

Upstairs, the bathroom was rebuilt from scratch with heated floors, a soaker tub, and wainscotting throughout. The combination of radiant warmth underfoot and a deep soaker tub is a feature that requires careful sequencing and good finish work to deliver properly and both were given the attention they deserved.

The sauna came last, and it earns its own sentence: a new oceanfront sauna built at the beach house, positioned to face the water. It is the detail that most people will remember about this property and it was designed and built to be there for a long time.