I'll start - we have a beach cottage built in the 20's (a 30 second walk to the beach - I timed it once!) on the North Shore of MA. It is decorated in no style at all - a hodgepodge of stuff too serviceable to trash but too out-of-date for our "real" house. I'd love to do a "Something's Gotta Give" look. Many of the homes around us are year-round residences, I find that those folks don't tend to decorate around a "beachy" theme. The town our beach house is in is very old - pre 1700. I see more of a push toward a historical period look (primitive) than a nod to a beachy interior, if that makes sense. I probably didn't explain this very well. Maybe someone else familiar with the North Shore can explain it better.

before i looked at the pic, i thought it was going to a brown granite. was surprised to see a gray granite. it does have that 'sandy" look on the most of the granite, say 3 quarters of it, but it's not the color of sand. it will make your kitchen feel "cooler" instead of "warmer". what feel are you going for?? if u are going for the cooler feel, than you are on the right track

Love love love going to Florida beach.. Been a while. Enjoy!

My dad worked in the oil field as a fill-in for an employee who had been drafted knowing full well that when the war was over, the draftee would be offered his job back and dad would be unemployed. The draft swept the countryside clean of tradesmen such as paper hangers. Mother taught herself how to hang paper by papering the rooms of her own house. After neighbors saw the result, she always had plenty of paper-hanging jobs during the summer. Work went well for her except for one job. It was raining and the air was saturated with moisture. Disaster struck. I was applying paste to the paper and mother was putting it on the walls. She had our work flow organized such that (on ordinary days) the paste had begun to dry to the right consistency so that the paper would stick to the wall and stay in place. That day, the paste would not set and we had sheets of paper sliding down the wall.