Welcome to ModHampton!!

After blogging on LiveModern for the past couple of years, the time has come for me to spin off onto my own blogging destiny. LiveModern is a great community where modern enthusiasts are able to exchange ideas about design, materials, architecture, environmental issues, etc. However, to put it bluntly, the interface was ass. I really wanted to blog more frequently, but it was just too prohibitively time-consuming, difficult and quirky. And the migration to the new software basically put the nail in the coffin for me- all of my old blog entries are essentially toast. Blogging should be au courant, spontaneous, and most of all, enjoyable! And now that I am here, I can be as snarky, blunt and ruthless as I want to be!

My blog over on LiveModern was pretty much a very dry, factual account of my attempts, as a non-architect, non-builder, non-designer, non-artist, non-millionaire to build my own house... in the Hamptons. My original intention was just find a nice lot somewhere east of the Shinnecock Canal and to build a modest cedar-shingled cottage or Cape Cod house. However, after poring through countless designs and elevations, I came across the Greenbelt 2 house and immediately I got that inner sense that this is going to be the one, even though it was totally not within my original scope.


Although it was originally spec'd to be a prefab modular, I decided to do it as a site-built house using prefab components like prefab concrete walls.

I would like to think that this house has kind of awakened the inner-modernist in me, which I am now unleashing onto the world. Now that I am here, I will continue blogging about the construction. In addition, I will go off on tangents and post about anything and everything that catches my eye, or the wacky goings-on in that crazy place 100 miles east of NYC.

But before I do anything else... it's time to do some catch-up. I will repost, in its entirety, my old LiveModern blog over here.