When you think of a beach house, there are certain images that instantly come to mind. Blue and white color scheme, shiplap walls, stripes, beachy memorabilia– shells, ships in bottles, signs expressing 'Life's better at the beach'. It's a nostalgic look for sure, and although I jest, beach house decor has had a bit of a tasteful glow-up in recent years so the cliché isn't as kitschy as it once was.
Although from the outside this house does pretty much fit the cliché. It's a classic clapboard beach house in Los Angeles, it had great bones, but has just been subjected to a quick (and relatively cheap) builder flip, so it was going to take a bit of vision. It needed the character adding back in. And not only that, the homeowners, despite buying a home less than half a mile from the ocean, wanted this beach house to look nothing like a beach house.
