A Bridgehampton bungalow featuring a redwood forest planted by television personality Martha Stewart has been redesigned as a bohemian hideaway for summer beach seekers.
The boutique Hamptons hotel called A Room at the Beach opened in May, and is located less than three kilometres from the Atlantic in a popular New York holiday corridor.

Co-owners Charles Lemonides and Lucy Swift Weber, daughter of prominent art and design critic Nicholas Fox Weber, designed the inn by revamping a 10-room cinder block structure with a storied history.
Through the early 1990s the building was the vacation home of American businesswoman and television personality Martha Stewart and daughter Alexis. They added two rows of towering redwoods on the 1.5-acre lot, which now form a signature trait of A Room at the Beach.
"We saw the trees from the road and that's what ultimately suckered us into the project," Lemonides told Dezeen.
For a brief time A Room at the Beach was also owned by American fashion designer Donna Karan and her daughter Gabby Karan de Felice, who made modifications to the guest room bathrooms and built an outdoor pool.
The single-storey hotel still boasts the original bungalow roof and structural footprint, but almost every other element was touched by the first-time hoteliers.

"Regulations in this area are super strict because we're losing cornfields and gaining ugly 'McMansions', which is tragic," said Weber.
"One of the things going for us was tha...