The Classic Beach House

Grant White - Architectural Digest

This grand room in a home in the Caribbbean's Mustique combines classic and beachy elements. On a wall of the great room hangs two engravings of Trajan’s Column by Piranesi. A pair of 19th-century museum models of whales, flanked by antique cachepots filled with coral, rest on an 18th-century English side table. The silver bowl is from Christie’s.

Children's Beach Bedrooms & Outdoor Ceiling Fan Tips

via Schumacher Floridian Peninsula on Instagram

These are such cute kids' bedrooms for a beach or vacation house. I love both the pink and white and blue and white versions. Check out all the built-in storage.

Ceiling Fans with Style - Seriously!

Savannah Kay Designs

 

Ceiling fans are a necessary evil in the South. They are very energy efficient, using very little energy themselves, allowing you to turn up your thermostat and save on your utility bills. Ceiling fans can save you 15% to 30%. I think ceiling fans use to be butt ugly, but I find many today much better looking than the days of old when they were heavy and clunky eyesores.