Yellow Tile, Green Cabinets, and a Pink Fridge Set the Tone for a Family's Woodstock, New York, Home

"Megan O'Neill and her husband, Jesse Bull, live and breathe color. O'Neill is the CEO of Nayla, a footwear brand that makes shoes out of fish leather dyed in vivid hues. Bull runs a company that stages team game experiences where participants compete to disable "bombs" of neon paint. Those day-to-day atmospheres lead to impactful decisions when renovating their Woodstock, New York weekend home, which bursts with bright pinks, yellows, and greens. "We have a shared, colorful, tropical aesthetic," says O'Neill."

"Bull and O'Neill are the types of people who embrace playfulness. Which is definitely necessary when dealing with a home so peculiar it defies architectural categorization. "We don't even know what year it was built," O'Neill says. All they can say to some degree of certainty is that it was constructed around portions of an older stone house. Inside is all mismatched angles, pitched roof lines, and even a treehouse-like bathroom."

"When they purchased the house over a decade ago, it was a spot for the couple to party with their friends-"a dump, but a fun dump," she says. It came fully furnished, "a caricature of a Woodstock hippie house," O'Neill says with a laugh. "There were signs saying Breathe and Relax and framed pictures of wizards.""

"After the couple had kids, they decided to make some changes. While some might have gutted the interior and tried to make more sense of the floorplan, O'Neill and Bull kept most of the home intact, only redoing the kitchen, and adding a bathroom, bedroom, and laundry room. Otherwise, the magic is built on paint and furnishings, all selected by the couple-no interior designer necessary. ( Mitchell Owen Architect was hired to help with the weightier revisions.)"

Megan O’Neill and Jesse Bull live with vivid color in their work and bring that energy to their Woodstock, New York weekend home. The house is architecturally hard to categorize, with mismatched angles, pitched roof lines, and a treehouse-like bathroom, and they do not know its exact construction year. They bought it more than a decade ago as a fun, fully furnished “caricature” of a Woodstock hippie house. After having kids, they avoided a full gut and kept most of the layout, redoing the kitchen and adding a bathroom, bedroom, and laundry room. Paint and furnishings drive the look, with an architect handling heavier revisions.

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