Boutique hotel with famous homeowner past open for business in Bridgehampton

A Bridgehampton bungalow that used to belong, at different times, to celebrity homemaker Martha Stewart and fashion icon Donna Karan, has been turned into a summer hotel, according to architecture and design publication Dezeen. The opening of A Room at the Beach, also noted by The Real Deal in its recent rundown on East End hospitality happenings, comes after co-owners Charles Lemonides and Lucy Swift Weber revamped a former 10-room cinder block structure at 2668 Montauk Highway. The building had been used by Stewart and her daughter, Alexis, as a vacation home during the 1990s. During that time, they added two rows of redwood trees to the 1.5-acre lot. At a different point in its star-studded history, the property was also owned by Karan and her daughter, Gabby Karan de Felice, who modified the guest bedrooms and built an outdoor pool. During the latest round of renovations, Lemonides and Weber upgraded the plumbing and converted the laundry room into a sauna, but largely left the bones intact to comply with local regulations. Most of those changes are cosmetic. The cinder block walls are now covered by cedar wood, and a new wood patio now runs the length of the building. Most of the guest rooms at A Room at the Beach are five-by-five meters with bathrooms behind sliding partitions. [Dezeen]