Exclusive | Hamptons’ Divey Seabreeze Motel is transformed into Lush Three Hotel Ducks

Retro-Nin motels are catnip for property investors and potential hoteliers. It’s no secret why: you can make them cheaper. Step 1: Fill with medium -style medium -style furniture. Step 2: Add some strange, retro coded decor to the rooms. Step 3: Craft a cocktail bar. And Step 4, most important: triple the rates.

Those motel kitsch motel-making are finally, entertaining, insurance and attracting a new and new crowd. But they are a coin a dozen. What if you did it differently? What if you have poured your heart, soul, brand-di and much more money in a motel on the street in the 1950s that had seen much better days? Well, then you will get the three ducks.

The newest boutique hotel to arrive before the Hamptons summer season, booking in this full recapture of the start of Westhampton Seabreez built in 1956 today, told Randall Stone and Elizabeth Bakhash today exclusively.

“Westhampton has gone through a rebirth,” Stone says. “He catches a little more than that execution of luxury,” Chimes in Backhash.

But these Westhampton-Boosters and long business associates are hotel operators for the first time, who were just a little of the kismet. Stone, a resident of Remsenburg, had been driving from Motel for years, even using it from time to time for overflowing guests. So when the sign for sale hit the lawn last year, it looked like luck.

“He called me and it was like, ‘that’s a crazy thing. But should we do it?” “Returns of backwardness.” We left the next day and we immediately saw the opportunity. ”

For years, the duo had worked together as a brand and experience advisers for companies as Samsung, Audi, IHG and Hyatt. Stone had trained original as an architect. Backhash joined a group of real estate development with hotels such as William in his portfolio. Their backgrounds give them inside, they say, how to make the proper hospitality and design. They bought 12 -room motel in April 2024; Was looking for $ 2.5 million.

“We just knew that this parcel, which was located in this 1.6 hectare, which is really quite beautiful, could turn into a boutique hotel into a market that is undeserved,” says Backhash.

Place the mountain highway again in the heart of Westhempton (19 Seabreeze Ave. To be accurate), just one and a half hours from the city, eight minutes from the beach and a few minutes from the city center, there is no similar hotel for miles. But Frogted parking building, grass -shaped was worse for wear and painful date.

To bring it back to life, they removed the heartless parking and wearing the re-structure in the environmentally friendly thermowood. They build a new building, called the barn, which serves as a waiting area and a collection point. Their vision was to create a garden -like environment, and in pursuit of this room was now given its sitting area of ​​outdoor garden. Meanwhile a meadow with wild flowers side by building with a large fire collection area. The name of the three ducks refers to local waterfowl that roam the area and history of the Rosa Agriculture Zone.

“It’s a place where everyone can come in the evening after spending a day on the beach or in the city,” Stone says.

Inside, the motel was naked in studs; Nothing of the original remained. The roof also went so that the ceilings in each of the rooms can be hacked. Excess photo windows give a view of private garden landscape with window construction benches. To bring the outside, they selected the ash floors for its attractive natural grain and headboards covered with soft upholstery fabric knitted by Swedish studio front for the square that looks like moss. Baths contain tuna by hand cut. And to enure that the rooms never feel cramped with Bulky Luggage they designed a unique amenenenity: “Beautiful and ample storage units so that guues are able to put everyway away and embrace a more minimalist,” Say backhash, an avid traveler. Hotel Hotel Hotel Hotel Rooms never have enough storage. “One of the things we want to do the three ducks is to help people reflect and relate to nature and themselves again. So having a place for their things is part of this. “

“We have gone through a process of designing paintings, where, honestly, every decision has been felt like or death for us,” she adds.

However, this design -fixed duo does not intend to play basil and they know that to satisfy the last Persenickety Clienttele, the success of their hotel will depend on the service. To make sure they hit the mark, they have tapped Joseph Montag to Hotspot with five -star Bridgehampton Topping House Rose House as their general manager.

Even so, they point out that the hotel is about relaxation and not the most light, wild, sincerely exhausting elements of the Hamptons lifestyle. Think of it as a fork-piercing in the south fork.

So don’t come to wait for a clumsy restaurant or a brave bar. Instead, the market will be instead of selling drinks, delicious local boards, sweet snacks, goods, décor pieces, as well as flamingo bathroom equipment from your room. An easy breakfast with fruits, brown and pastries and local jams serve in the barn. Equipment summarizes beach trips and a homemade rented house.

But if all this tranquility will start to make it itch for that other hamptons, the one with diamond hours and low courage lines, the full goalkeeper service is available to realize your booking dreams.

“It’s a holiday of the earth and a return to the simplest, meaningful experiences,” says Backhash. “Just just a luxurious lightweight, beautiful, smooth.”

Mimets range from $ 495 per night during the day of week to $ 795 on weekends.