coastal, on purpose

The Beach House

A kitchen, a beverage bar and two bathrooms in a home that commits to a coastal palette instead of hinting at one.

Kitchen Beverage bar Master bath Guest bath

Coastal kitchen with navy upper cabinets, sage green lowers, a sage range hood and a gray glass wave-tile backsplash

The kitchen

Two cabinet colors, split by height. Navy on the uppers and the tall pantry runs, sage green on everything below the counter. Splitting it that way keeps a saturated palette from getting heavy, because the dark color sits above eye level and the eye reads the room from the counter down. The range hood is painted to match the lower cabinets so it belongs to the sage rather than interrupting the navy. Behind it, a gray glass wave tile picks up both colors and the water it is named for.

Wide view along the navy pantry wall through the kitchen to the dining area and its rattan pendant lights

Kitchen corner with the sage range hood, glass wave backsplash and a stainless farmhouse sink in white speckled quartz

Slide-in range above a stainless double drawer oven, set between sage green lower cabinets

Sage range hood framed by navy cabinets, with woven rattan pendants and framed ocean prints alongside

Stainless double-basin sink and pull-down faucet in white speckled quartz, with the glass wave backsplash behind

The beverage bar

This is my favorite thing in the house. Two floor-to-ceiling pantry towers in navy frame a shallow bay, and the bay became a bar: sage cabinets, white speckled quartz, the same wave tile carried up the full height, and a floating wood shelf holding labelled glass decanters. Building it into the pantry wall means it takes no extra footprint. It just stops being pantry for three feet.

Beverage bar in sage green cabinetry set between floor-to-ceiling navy pantry towers, with a glass wave-tile backsplash and a floating wood shelf of glass decanters

Wider view of the sage beverage bar and navy pantry towers, with a wire script sign reading Beach above the glass shelving

Glass wave-tile backsplash behind a floating wood shelf lined with labelled glass spirit decanters

Bar counter in white speckled quartz with an espresso machine, a brass whale sculpture and a countertop ice maker

The master bath

A navy vanity under white quartz, and a mirror framed in rattan cut in a wave rather than a rectangle. The floor is the part people stop at: river pebble mosaic across the whole room, with a rectangular panel of slate and stone set into the middle of it like a rug that cannot be moved or tripped over. There is a grab bar in the shower, mounted level with the valve so it is where a hand already goes.

Master bathroom with a navy vanity under white quartz, a wavy rattan-framed mirror, a pebble tile floor and a grab bar in the shower

Bathroom floor detail: a rectangular inset of slate and stone tile bordered in cream, surrounded by river pebble mosaic

The guest bath

Sage green walls, pebble mosaic underfoot, and an oval rattan mirror that answers the wavy one down the hall without copying it. The tub has a grab bar and a handheld sprayer, and two niches recessed into the surround are lined in green glass mosaic, which is how a functional shelf becomes the only decoration the wall needs.

Guest bathroom in sage green with a pebble mosaic floor, a white tub with grab bar, glass mosaic shower niches and a wall cabinet

Tub and shower with a handheld sprayer, a horizontal grab bar and two recessed niches lined in green glass mosaic tile

Oval rattan-framed mirror above a quartz vanity, with a metal wall sculpture of fish and sand dollars alongside

One more detail

A brass whale on the counter, against the tile. Every house should be allowed one of these.

Brass whale sculpture resting on a white speckled quartz counter against the gray glass wave-tile backsplash

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