When Charlotte Sylvain of Studio Fauve decided to take on the renovation of a four-bedroom, two-bathroom East Hampton house, located in Amagansett, her biggest goal was to create a space that was warm and timeless yet understated and unpretentious. So how did she achieve that when the home in question felt slightly boxed in and deeply in need of a color-palette refresh?

BEFORE: The home had great bones but needed a modern update to match the owners' tastes.

AFTER: “We are used to working with light palettes, as this is something we gravitate toward in our personal taste and spaces,” the designer adds.

“We focused on keeping the design minimal but adding warmth and texture through the use of different materials with natural tones in the construction and millwork,” says Charlotte. And there were a lot of those. Think tadelakt plaster and teak in the primary bathroom, Douglas fir in the kitchen, and Accoya wood in the guest bathroom. The young clients, a couple who live in New York City, wanted the space to be reimagined as the perfect bright and airy weekend house.

“We wanted to maintain muted and earthy tones throughout,” Charlotte says. “We carried some more tadelakt plaster into the guest bathroom for the vanity and paired this with a handmade zellige tile.” The scheme carries through to the kitchen, which “utilizes Douglas fir for the cabinetry that has been recycled using floorboards of the world-renowned Dinesen flooring company out of Denmark,” she adds.