On her first visit to what would eventually become a beguiling and much-loved gathering spot for a host of family members and friends, Katie Jordan couldn’t actually get inside. It was November, and the house—which had been built in 1912 and never winterized—was boarded up. Nonetheless, as she and a friend wandered its autumnal grounds, the conviction grew that she’d at long last found exactly what she was looking for. “I was looking for an older home that nobody had ruined,” says Jordan. So the task became one of equipping her prize with the amenities modern life requires without erasing the home’s period charm. For assistance, it was only natural to recruit #AD100 laureate @francesreathmerrill of @reathdesign in in Los Angeles, who had previously partnered with Jordan on her full-time residence in California. Take a full tour of the chromatic getaway on the Massachusetts coast at our bio link. Photo by @laurejoliet; styling by @mieketenhave; design by @reathdesign; words by @kylehoepner.