amuse bouche beach

My obsession will all things beach interiors is getting a little campy and literal. I went to the beach all last week and came back with a bitchin' tan, 2 shell study canvases, and a rafia tassel with a spotted cowrie shell attached. Now that I look at the Shell studies sitting on the floor of my apartment, I kinda wanna groan. Apparantly, a week in Sea Girt, NJ , staring at trillion dollar homes that somehow manage to still look quaint, gave me the idea I was getting my very own beach cottage soon. What? The Beach Cottage Fairy tokd me so.

We'll see. I'll post those studies I got for a steal and you can let me know what you think.

Thumbing through the July/August Metropolitan Home, I was set straight by this awesome editorial on a Jersey Shore home by Designer Carl D’Aquino and architect Francine Monaco for a young and groovy Manhattan family. It's beach without the obvious odds and ends floating around - coral, natical prints, etc. And now it's my current inspiration for my beach cottage. Just let me dream, ok?

Shots of blue everywhere and organic materials give it that exact fresh off the beach feel. Low maintenance and style all in one.





But my favorite so far has to be this chandelier fixture. The Designer combines three Chisolm Hall fixtures from the Urban Electric Company of Charleston into a single piece remeniscient of a box kite. I shivered with delight when I saw it. Even better, the topmost cube lines up with the mullions of the stairwell windows.



Sigh.... One day. One day.