It began when the effervescent Bahamas-based decorator Amanda Lindroth received a call from an old friend, a bachelor she had met in his Duke undergrad days. He went on to buy a place in Nassau, and “then off he went and married the most enchanting woman,” says Lindroth. A subsequent vacation landed the man and his new wife back in the islands, this time in Baker’s Bay, a community on the slim island of Great Guana Cay. It’s buffered by the rocky Atlantic beaches on its easternmost shore and the pinkish coastlines of Abaco on its western side. The San Francisco-based pair were deeply romanced by the private enclave and who could blame them? “Even by Bahamas standards the beaches of Baker’s Bay are extraordinarily beautiful,” notes the designer. The couple resolved to build their vacation home there, and they wanted Lindroth to design it.