home of distinction
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WBM
LAN A was expansion
and renovation. Rich
and Monika Williams,
Landfall residents,
bought the contempo-rary
home at the water-front
end of their street,
intending to redo it into
a traditional.
But after nine months of dealing
with complicated and restrictive flood
zone regulations and struggling with
the remodel’s blueprints, they realized it
wasn’t going to work.
“It was like trying to fit a square into
a circle,” Monika Williams says. “We
finally looked at each other and said,
‘bulldoze.’”
This time the couple started from
scratch, hiring Scott Sullivan of Sullivan
Design Company to help make their
dreams a reality.
“It gave us a blank slate,” Rich
Williams says. “Going to Scott, we
were able to take a lot of things we
wanted from a functional standpoint.
We wanted a mother-in-law suite, we
wanted each of the kids to have a view
and their own room. We wanted a place
where the kids always come back and
feel comfortable. And hopefully, lots of
room for grandkids one of these days.”
The Williamses relied on their own
expertise for the interior design.
“We worked with Scott to build the
framework and then Monika and I were
involved on almost a daily basis, coming
into each room and figuring out what
kind of feel and look we wanted,” Rich
Williams says. “And then we’d go to the
next room and make sure the transitions
were there.”
Starting over also enabled Sullivan
to site the home to maximize the views
over the Intracoastal Waterway, Mason
Inlet and Hewletts Creek.
“It’s a balanced house from the front,
but it’s oriented to the view at the back,”
Sullivan says.
january 2018