GOING YEARROUND
A NYC APARTMENT DWELLER’S QUEST FOR SERENITY 12 MONTHS OF THE YEAR INSPIRED THE COMPLETE RENOVATION OF HER SPRING LAKE SUMMER HOME. Design by Mary Catherine McCarthy LLC Photography by SRS Photography Text by Donna Rolando
Even before COVID enticed droves of New Yorkers to seek a greener life, one city dweller of 33 years decided it was time to reimagine her Spring Lake summer house for year-round living. “I moved here permanently in 2019, really because I wanted to raise my son in the suburbs,” says the homeowner. Her custom beach house had served well for decades, but now it was time for it to step up to a new role. To make this three-to-four-bedroom waterfront home fit an everyday life of snow as well as sand would take a designer with vision and intuitiveness. Mary Catherine McCarthy of the eponymous Sea Girt firm has been renovating the waterfront house room by room, starting with the kitchen in February 2022—and she continues today with a swim spa. This Spring Lake beach home has been transformed for yearround living courtesy of a design that maximized the open floor plan for entertainment ease.
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