Home By the Sea
A sea-inspired Nantucket home brims with classic charm
For interior designer Jackie Higgins and her family, finding a vacation home in Nantucket just made sense. Jackie and her husband, Bob, and their teenagers, Sarah and Brendan, have been summering there for almost two decades. So, five years ago Bob decided it was time to buy, and the family bid on a house. Unfortunately, the deal fell through. “We were disappointed,” says Jackie, “but we shrugged and said it wasn’t meant to be.” Then Sarah went online and found a vacant lot for sale in Nantucket’s historic district. This time, the deal went through. “Naturally,” says Jackie, “we decided Meant to Be would be the perfect name for our new home.”
And new it is—from the ground up, which is unusual in an area filled with 200-year-old structures. To ensure that the house would blend into the historic neighborhood, Jackie, whose interior design firm Beach Glass Designs is located in Huntington Bay, New York, did meticulous research and worked carefully with town officials, creating a classic cedar-shake home with a widow’s walk atop the roof, which offers broad views of Nantucket Harbor. “The nicest accolade we receive is that people think our house is as old as the neighboring homes,” says Jackie.
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