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"Jeffrey Bilhuber\na 1920s nantucket cottage to call home\n\"I wanted to return it to what it once was\u2014the quintessential Nantucket summer cottage,\" designer Jeffrey Bilhuber says of Rose Cottage, his renovated 1920s summer house.\nRose Cottage, the renovated 1920s summer house.\n\nBilhuber removed the old ceiling of the library/entrance to reveal the rafters and used a dark pattern on the walls \"as an homage to Billy Baldwin.\"\nIn the living room, a door that once led to the kitchen was sealed.\nThe designer incorporated an intimate seating area into the room \"to better address the view.\" He retained the existing gray-washed walls and \"strategically added marine-white finishes.\"\nA view from the open-beam dining area to the library/entrance. Botanical samples hang above the internal door and double-hung windows\u2014\"original to the house,\" says Bilhuber. \"The idea was to fill the place with atmosphere, personality and charm,\" notes the designer.\n\n\"A formal dining room would be too luxurious for a small Nantucket cottage,\" says Bilhuber. The Confederate soldier's uniform shirt\u2014converted to a Native American tunic\u2014and chairs are from Christie's. Calvin Klein Home tabletop accessories and linens.\n\nBilhuber kept the configuration of the master bedroom and placed a \"floating\" dressing table at the recessed window. Artworks, from top, are a 20th-century French drawing, a 1941 Picasso lithograph and an Angelo Testa cutout. The antique mirror is from Christie's.\n\n\"I tried to complement the pure Nantucket architecture of the guest room with simple materials and shapes,\" says Bilhuber, who designed the bed and bench. On the early-20th-century chests are 19th-century glazed pottery vessels wired as lamps."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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