Warm up in winter and cool off in summer with photo tours of 20 breathtaking waterfront holiday homes from around the world.
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Robert Young Architects
This stunning property in the Hamptons is a primary house full with a guesthouse, drive-through garage, plus a key open area that is modeled after a Swedish barn.
Munger Interiors
This waterfront family holiday house in Galveston, Texas is trendy and family-friendly.
This house on Nantucket is shingle-style on the outside, but modern, open, and spa-like on the inside.
M.A.D. Megan Arquette Design
Blogger Megan of Beach Bungalow 8 invited us for a tour of her charming Venice Beach, California house.
Tara Seawright Interior Design
Interior designer Tara Seawright showed us what a difference a few gallons of white paint, colorful fabrics, and some excursions to West Elm and the flea market will create in this colorful cottage in the Hamptons.
Echelon Custom Homes
This Rehoboth Beach Victorian is chock filled with distinctive information and fun and vibrant colour.
Gary Hutton Design
This Eichler House on San Francisco Bay functions as a gallery for iconic mid-century modern furnishings and an impressive art collection.
Richard Bubnowski Design LLC
Downtown meets the coast in this Long Beach Island house down.
Liz Williams Interiors
Interior Designer Liz Wiliams changed a condominium on Amelia Island into a relaxing coastal retreat.
Hammer Architects
This unique mid-century house in Truro, Mass. wanted a rejuvenating renovation.
ZeroEnergy Design
Green structure, including a planted roof and solar panels, help this Cape Cod holiday house maintain a small carbon footprint.
I will admit it. I’m here now, which gave me the idea for this particular ideabook. It is a very small cottage on Cape Cod.
Rachel Reider Interiors
This historic inn on Nantucket obtained a major spruce up from inside designer Rachel Reider, which gives our thoughts about coastal style some updated twists.
CapeRace Cultural Adventures
This Houzz Tour investigates three coastal houses in Newfoundland which you can stay in within a cultural adventure.
This home is on a lobstering island in Maine and overlooks all the harbor action.
Tracy Murdock Allied ASID
The views from the windows are the art this spectacular house in Malibu needs.
Rough Linen
We have been enjoying the images of Tricia Rose’s creative coastal house on San Francisco Bay for several decades now.
A Beach Cottage
Sarah was the first Australian to invite Houzz into her Sidney shore house, that is filled with organic textures, interesting objects, and vintage furniture.
Beach Vintage
Or wait, was Simone the first Aussie to let us into her Australian shore house? In any event, we are thankful to both Sarah and Simone for allowing us view all of their creative layout moves, usage of vintage items, and beautiful settings.
Secret Gardens
Speaking of Australia, this multi-level masterpiece supplied us with an excellent garden tour from a range of heights.
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