Light, bright and breathtakingly pretty, this island home just outside of Nantucket, Massachusetts, is every bit the classic beach house retreat. With its stunning views and outside spaces from which to enjoy the expanse of water, and its calm interiors, it truly is one of the world's best homes. It embraces a traditional coastal palette of blues and whites in a way that suggests its been like this for decades, but there's a contemporary freshness to the interiors, too, that brings it right up to date.
It hasn't always looked this good. The shingle-style home was built in the early 2000s and its interiors were full of natural and dark stained wood paneling and heavy iron fixtures. Its new owner envisaged more of a seaside retreat and in just six months, Boston-based interior designer Gary McBournie transformed the interiors from wintery mountain lodge-style into the uplifting seaside home we see today.
