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North Fork Designer Show House returns Aug. 14

By Vera Chinese

A hoop house turned meditation studio designed by The Giving Room and event organizer Bob Tapp. (Credit: Liz Glasgow)

The organizers of the North Fork Designer Show House, a charitable event in which local home and landscape designers join together to transform a shabby 19th-century farmhouse into a dwelling worthy of a magazine spread, are at it again.

But following the success of two previous events — one last August and a Christmas-themed show house in December — they face the dual challenge of wowing returning guests and attracting new visitors to the 12-room home, which is again on loan from Cutchogue Presbyterian Church.

“We had to figure out how to make it a draw for new people,” said Kate DiGregorio of the event’s organizing committee. “It had to be 100 percent different.”

Read more on northforker.com.

Photo caption: A hoop house turned meditation studio designed by event organizer Bob Tapp. (Credit: Liz Glasgow)

Vera Chinese has been the editor of northforker.com and northforker magazines since May 2014. Prior to that she spent two and a half years as a staff reporter for the New York Daily News. She joined the Riverhead News-Review as a staff writer in January 2010 and was named Associate Web Editor nine months later. She previously worked for the Southampton Press Western Edition and was named the third place 2008 Rookie Reporter of the Year by the New York Press Association. She graduated from Wagner College in 2006 where she received a bachelor's degree in English. She earned a master's degree in English education from New York University in 2007. She is a 2002 graduate of Eastport High School and has lived on the East End for more than 20 years.

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