Dining Room

Because the homeowners have four children and love to entertain, the dining area was designed to accommodate a crowd. The star here is always the beach, so the 12-foot-long table, low, neutral chairs, and backless benches don’t block the view. “There is a lot of architectural pattern in this room—the grid of the windows, the ceiling beams, and the cross-sections below the table,” Susan says. “There’s no reason to complicate the space with fussy fabrics.”