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10 Ways to Age a Beach House

Shop owner and designer Kay Douglass shares her tips giving a brand-new beach house a lived-in, comfortable feel.

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“Carolina jasmine adds verdant texture and accentuates the house’s architectural elements, such as the courtyard gate,” says Kay. The fragrant, rapidly growing vine is most commonly found in the Southeast.
Paul Wicheloe, Text by Steele Thomas Marcoux

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“Carolina jasmine adds verdant texture and accentuates the house’s architectural elements, such as the courtyard gate,” says Kay. The fragrant, rapidly growing vine is most commonly found in the Southeast.

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“I stuck to a pretty disciplined palette of white, charcoal-brown, and wheat because I wanted to add character to this house with a variety of textures and materials and repurposed objects,” Kay says. “And it doesn’t compete with the view of the Gulf.”

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“Carolina jasmine adds verdant texture and accentuates the house’s architectural elements, such as the courtyard gate,” says Kay. The fragrant, rapidly growing vine is most commonly found in the Southeast.

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