Beyond This Southampton Home’s Dutch Door: A British-Inspired Kitchen and a Dreamy Sunroom
Photo by: Tim Williams
Designer Samantha Tannehill remembers treading carefully as the new girlfriend when she first visited this Southampton home. The Long Island retreat carried a lot of memories for her now husband’s four children (he had bought the place in 1999), and at the time, it felt too soon to step in. “I remember him saying, ‘You’re a designer, I want you to do stuff,’” Tannehill says. “But I was afraid. I’d respond, ‘But this is where your kids grew up.’ I didn’t want to rock the boat.”
That first trip happened a little less than a decade ago, and the couple have since gotten married and settled into a routine of using the place as a year-round vacation hub. “We have a big family (lots of Italians), and he and I both like to be in the kitchen,” she says. “But it wouldn’t allow for a lot of people to be in there, so that’s what first alerted us that it was time to make a change. At that point, I was comfortable taking it on.”
