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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Dress Your Best Feature
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Dress Your Best Feature

Highlight existing architecture with swaths of fabric. “The three pairs of French doors with transom windows were the reason we bought this house―we just loved the light and the connection to the water,” Kay says. In order to call attention to them without competing with the view, she flanked each set of doors with flax-colored linen drapes mounted just below the ceiling to emphasize the room’s height.

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“Each one of these pavers is handmade,” says Kay. “They really look like old European stone tiles but they’re concrete and thus practically indestructible.” The color is Buff, one of four finishes available from Peacock Pavers.

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