Property of Mr. and Mrs. Tom May | Architect: Richard Jay Smith

9/26/2025 08:09:00 PM

A penthouse apartment in a Beverly Hills hotel is officially home base for Mr. and Mrs. Tom May. But their great love is boating, so they manage to spend four days a week at the house on Lido Isle, near Newport Beach, Calif., where their cabin cruiser is moored. In size and scope, however, the house would eminently qualify as a full-time home. Two stories high and six bedrooms big, it has everything for comfort from an elevator to a big-house kitchen and pantry, and for delight, such embellishments as an indoor-outdoor reflecting pool.

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Although the lot is only 45 feet wide and 90 feet from the street to the water's edge, the house covers almost every inch, and its two stories total a generous 4,500 square feet of living space. To the street, the house presents a solid stucco façade relieved by orna- mental grilles, but on the water side, corner-to-corner walls of glass-upstairs and down-command the ever-changing view of the boat-filled harbor.

A 36-foot living-dining room and two terraces gear the house to a busy social life. The Mays always bring one or two couples down with them for the weekend, but their most regular visitors are their son and daughter-in-law and their young family, whose big sailboat, moored across from the house, offers all the Mays an alternate means of enjoying the water.