High on a bluff overlooking a historic lighthouse in Nantucket Sound, Dee and Jimmy Haslam recharge. When they built their vacation home on Massachusetts’ Nantucket Island three years ago, the Knoxville, Tennessee, couple were not looking for an escape as much as a place to be energized and inspired.

Certainly their Labradors--Maggie, Rocky, and Tiger--love the open space around the house.

Design:
Architect: Scott Hutton; architectural assistant: Natasha Barton, Lyman Perry Architects Ltd., 42 Cassatt Ave., Berwyn, PA 19312; 610/889-9966; and Nantucket, MA; 508/325-5277, lparchitects.com.
Interior designer: Elizabeth Corker, 1649 Minnekahda Rd., Chattanooga, TN 37405; 423/265-7151; Nashville, TN, 423/605-2757; Washington, D.C.
Contractor and fabricator of built-in millwork and custom trim: Scott Bowman, 7 Folger Lane, Nantucket, MA 02554; 508/228-5019.
Kitchen designer: Jeanie D. Johnson, Housebones; 865/250-3385, housebones@comcast.net.
Landscape design (trees): David Champoux Landscaping Inc., 508/228-1374.
Landscape design (flower beds and privet hedges): Anita Nettles Stefanski and Julie Hilberg-Hunt, Florabundant, 508/423-5109.
Stone work (stone walls and terraces): Terry Kelly, 508/228-0853.

Photographs by Michael Luppino
Text by Amy Elbert
Produced by Stacy Kunstel