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A Magnificent Porch Renovation on Fire Island

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NYC architecture firm Bromley Caldari Architects razed the original front of a small house facing the beach on Fire Island and rebuilt it as a double-height cube containing an air space with hefty framing timbers.

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Inside the big macho rough-framed porch is a more delicate internal porch-like space – its delicate bleached color palette suggesting driftwood and pearly shells.

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Beyond that, an open plan great room for cooking, eating, reading, talking and hanging out, is also now completely open to the seascape in front of the house.

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At the far end is the kitchen, where a side wall of numerous small windows now establish its casually beachly bona fides.

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The magnificent renovation is of an unambitious little vacation house; a small, dark box divided into a front and back by a bearing wall/fireplace, with two bedrooms at each end.

Now it is nearly transparent.

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Approaching the original back of the house, you can now see the great room and out through the new porch front to catch a glimpse of the sea.

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A short barefoot walk at the back of the house now takes you to a painting studio.

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What were dark bedrooms at the back have been clad in warm timber and filled with light from a full height parade of windows behind a big soft white bed.

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The back yard is now an invitation to paint in the circular studio or lazily lap in its sweet sun-drenched pool.

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The site is a wooded, narrow lot on the Great South Bay in the resort community of Fire Island Pines.

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Like vacation homes in many now popular beach resorts, the original cottage didn’t do justice to the glorious scenery.

Now it does.

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