Jacksonville Magazine Clip | Beachy Keen | Sept 2014

A PONTE
VEDRA OASIS
MELDS
COMFORT
WITH STYLE
A
KEEN
AN ARCHITECT, A BUILDER AND
an interior designer walk into a
bar. A recipe for disaster? Not
when the clients know what they
want—for Kathy and Jack Gleason,
that was a lot.
Among the requests: open-air
space and a “home that can run
on auto pilot,” bean bag chairs
and no more pink. Ever. (That
specific request came courtesy
of the couple’s sixteen-year-old
daughter).
The architect (Cliff Duch, of
Cronk Duch Architects) took all
of the requests into account,
eventually suggesting an Anglo-
Caribbean look. The builder
(Michael Lenahan of Aurora
Custom Homes) concurred,
adding that the home needed to
be made of “quality, durable
materials—something low maintenance.”
And thus, the building
began.
Duch sent the Gleasons to
Windsor, a community in Vero
Beach filled with white stucco,
Anglo-Caribbean houses—what
he calls a blend of “classic
Southern and island home styles,
with a contemporary appeal.”
With steeply pitched metal roofs
and vertically proportioned windows,
this style allows for lots of
natural light.
BY Juliet Johnson
PHOTOGRAPHS BY Wally Sears
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