Guests now enter the house to the right, through the screened porch.
An antique birdhouse in the form of a Victorian mansion stands at the foot of the home’s original front door.
Creveling had a new custom top made for the antique dining table. The silk map depicting Eastern India and East Asia is one of a set of four regional maps that were a gift from a friend.
The living room sofa is upholstered in a British Khaki fabric.
Creveling collects Irish linen, which covers most of the furniture in the master bedroom.
Framed pages from a French architecture encyclopedia hang on the walls of the library.
Creveling’s animal menagerie populates the house, for example, in the stair landing.
Creveling collects Irish linen, which covers most of the furniture in the master bedroom.
A friend convinced Creveling to paint the kitchen a shocking red with yellow trim.
Needlework and vintage chandeliers characterize a guest room with twin beds.
A framed quilting piece decorates one of the guest rooms.
Local sea charts hang on the walls of the back porch.
The garage/boathouse dates from the 1930s and is now a guesthouse.
Creveling hung framed swaths of Quadrille wallpaper to lighten the dark wood walls.
Indian dhurries line the floor of the room.
An armillary sphere sits between two armchairs in the house’s deep backyard.
This article appears in the August-1 2013 issue of HC&G (Hamptons Cottages & Gardens).