7 Hillside Road

Overview

Arts and Crafts home with ocean and skyline views

An Arts and Crafts home in Atlantic Highlands, set high enough to take in the ocean, the bay and the Manhattan skyline. Period detail inside, elevated terraces outside.

Mornings here start with the water. Step out to the elevated terrace with your coffee and look across the bay to the Manhattan skyline. The house itself is classic Arts and Crafts: cedar shingles, leaded casement windows, low stone walls and a brick drive, set among mature trees on Hillside Road. Inside, the details hold up. Oak built-ins, glass-front cabinets and a green-tiled hearth sit alongside a new kitchen and five en-suite bedrooms.

Main floor

The living room centers on a green-tiled hearth with a wood stove, flanked by oak cabinetry and lattice casements that open to the garden. Cook in the new kitchen on Wolf appliances, with sage cabinets, butcher-block counters and checkerboard floors underfoot. Dinner moves to the dining table, where a wide casement window frames the water. Later, settle in by the stone-faced fireplace in the sitting room, or step through the red lattice doors into the garden.

Bedrooms and outdoors

All five bedrooms are en-suite, so each one offers comfort and privacy. Diamond-paned windows filter the morning light, and one bedroom is lit by a stained-glass window above the bed. Outside, six outdoor living spaces stretch the home into the trees: a stone-walled garden patio for long lunches, a pergola-covered table for dinner, and elevated terraces where evenings end with the bay going dark and the skyline lighting up.