Presented by the Crafts Council the four day fair will be showcasing a range of products from furniture to textiles with jewellery being a new additon to the exhibitions line up.
Taking over the second floor, the re-styled COLLECT OPEN will be a dedicated space to one-off installations by fourteen artists and four design historians celebrating the art of making using traditional methods and new media.
Ester Segarra
All the items displayed are for sale, so if you are passionate about purchasing inspiring contemporary art, then the COLLECT Art Fair is the place to be.
COLLECT runs from 8th -11th May at Saatchi Gallery, London.
All the items displayed are for sale, so if you are passionate about purchasing inspiring contemporary art, then the COLLECT Art Fair is the place to be.
COLLECT runs from 8th -11th May at Saatchi Gallery, London.
Israel may often be in the news, yet the wide-ranging attractions of Tel Aviv for travellers are often overlooked. Teresa Levonian Cole picks five reasons to visit.
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The great outdoors: Inacompact, energetic city of just 50 square kilometres, the best way to get around is on foot - or astride a 'Green bicycle': Tel Aviv's version of Boris bikes. While away the hours at pavement cafes, sipping fresh pomegranate juice. The beaches have their own allure and soundtrack - the splat of paddle balls resounding in the air - with a set of regulars, such as the dog walkers on 'Dog Beach' or Nordau Beach, which has separate days for men and women. The fashionable set, meantime, repairs to the entry-fee seclusion of Gordon Pool (www.gordon-pool.co.il), overlooking the marina - a Tel Aviv institution since 1956.
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Food & drink: The city has blossomed into a veritable foodie destination. From humble hummus restaurants - such as Jaffa's famous Ali Karavan - to sushi shacks on Rothschild Boulevard, luscious fruit stalls in Carmel Market and trendy eateries at the redeveloped Tel Aviv Port, variety abounds. Try a traditional breakfast of beans in the cobbled streets of the Yemenite Quarter, where grandmothers serve up homely fare. At Dallal (www.dallal.info), in arty Neve Tzedek, taste one of the world's best burgers with caramelised onions, fried egg and truffle mousse, on brioche, followed by cocktails and snacks at Rothschild 12 (www.rothschild12.co.il), haunt of musicians and writers. And for something inspirational, head to Popina (www.popina.co.il): from the beetroot margarita with coriander and ginger, to the steamed cheesecake with pistachio and yuzu - it's all heaven.
The Bullet Factory: Now a historic museum concealed beneath the laundry of a former kibbutz (communal settlement), this underground factory (eng.shimur.org/Ayalon-institute/) secretly manufactured millions of bullets between 1945 and 1948, under the nose of the British for use in the War of Independence. The story, brilliantly brought to life by young guides, is a testament to human determination and ingenuity - from the smuggling of machinery from Poland, to the installation of sun lamps, to tan the clandestine workers who were supposedly toiling in the fields. It's a unique experience - and, we are assured, not one bullet from this factory was fired against the British, who had become both friends and dupes of the crypto-kibbutzniks.
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Architecture & design: Tel Aviv's 'White City' is home to a remarkable collection of Eclectic-style buildings from the Twenties, its architecture evolving a decade later into the more restrained and functional Bauhaus style - of which there are some 4,000 examples. The twenty-first century, meantime, has seen the arrival of 'starchitects' such as Ron Arad, whose ribbon - like Design Museum (www.dmh.org.il), inspired by the sand dunes, is a spiralling orange beacon for cutting-edge exhibitions. Flair for design filters into every area - as the boutiques of Shabazi Street will reveal.
Hotel: In the sweltering summer months, what better than a refreshing sea breeze and views over the seemingly limitless Mediterranean coastline from a suite at Royal Beach Hotel (www.isrotel. com)? This cool new addition to the city's seafront hotels brings boutique ethos to a full-service hotel and an extraordinarily large, open-air swimming pool on the fourth floor. It is perfect for those seeking a central location - and serves what has to be one of the best breakfasts in all Tel Aviv.
Ways and means: Teresa Levonian Cole travelled as a guest of British Airways (www.ba.com) and Pomegranate Travel (020-3617 1826; www.pomegranate-travel.com), specialists in tailor-made holidays in Israel. A three-night stay at Royal Beach Hotel, B&B, including a private city tour and airport transfers, costs from £420, excluding flights.
Israel may often be in the news, yet the wide-ranging attractions of Tel Aviv for travellers are often overlooked. Teresa Levonian Cole picks five reasons to visit.
Alamy
The great outdoors: Inacompact, energetic city of just 50 square kilometres, the best way to get around is on foot - or astride a 'Green bicycle': Tel Aviv's version of Boris bikes. While away the hours at pavement cafes, sipping fresh pomegranate juice. The beaches have their own allure and soundtrack - the splat of paddle balls resounding in the air - with a set of regulars, such as the dog walkers on 'Dog Beach' or Nordau Beach, which has separate days for men and women. The fashionable set, meantime, repairs to the entry-fee seclusion of Gordon Pool (www.gordon-pool.co.il), overlooking the marina - a Tel Aviv institution since 1956.
Alamy
Food & drink: The city has blossomed into a veritable foodie destination. From humble hummus restaurants - such as Jaffa's famous Ali Karavan - to sushi shacks on Rothschild Boulevard, luscious fruit stalls in Carmel Market and trendy eateries at the redeveloped Tel Aviv Port, variety abounds. Try a traditional breakfast of beans in the cobbled streets of the Yemenite Quarter, where grandmothers serve up homely fare. At Dallal (www.dallal.info), in arty Neve Tzedek, taste one of the world's best burgers with caramelised onions, fried egg and truffle mousse, on brioche, followed by cocktails and snacks at Rothschild 12 (www.rothschild12.co.il), haunt of musicians and writers. And for something inspirational, head to Popina (www.popina.co.il): from the beetroot margarita with coriander and ginger, to the steamed cheesecake with pistachio and yuzu - it's all heaven.
The Bullet Factory: Now a historic museum concealed beneath the laundry of a former kibbutz (communal settlement), this underground factory (eng.shimur.org/Ayalon-institute/) secretly manufactured millions of bullets between 1945 and 1948, under the nose of the British for use in the War of Independence. The story, brilliantly brought to life by young guides, is a testament to human determination and ingenuity - from the smuggling of machinery from Poland, to the installation of sun lamps, to tan the clandestine workers who were supposedly toiling in the fields. It's a unique experience - and, we are assured, not one bullet from this factory was fired against the British, who had become both friends and dupes of the crypto-kibbutzniks.
Alamy
Architecture & design: Tel Aviv's 'White City' is home to a remarkable collection of Eclectic-style buildings from the Twenties, its architecture evolving a decade later into the more restrained and functional Bauhaus style - of which there are some 4,000 examples. The twenty-first century, meantime, has seen the arrival of 'starchitects' such as Ron Arad, whose ribbon - like Design Museum (www.dmh.org.il), inspired by the sand dunes, is a spiralling orange beacon for cutting-edge exhibitions. Flair for design filters into every area - as the boutiques of Shabazi Street will reveal.
Hotel: In the sweltering summer months, what better than a refreshing sea breeze and views over the seemingly limitless Mediterranean coastline from a suite at Royal Beach Hotel (www.isrotel. com)? This cool new addition to the city's seafront hotels brings boutique ethos to a full-service hotel and an extraordinarily large, open-air swimming pool on the fourth floor. It is perfect for those seeking a central location - and serves what has to be one of the best breakfasts in all Tel Aviv.
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Olinda Adeane meets Jeanetta Rowan-Hamilton, who updates and sells vintage garments through her company Nettles Cashmere, travelling between her London flat and a former fishing lodge in Scotland, which she has gradually restored.
Elsa Young
Tall birch trees surround the lodge
The house of Jeanetta Rowan-Hamilton in Sutherland, Scotland, resembles a favourite chilhood book of mine, The Wind in The Willows. It is not just the house is close to a river, but that she evidently shares author Kenneth Grahame's time-honoured view that interior decoration begins with a good log fire and a toasted teacake.
Jeanetta has restored her tin-roofed fishing lodge with great charm. There is nothing whimsical or twee about her taste, but her talent for making things herself - be it a cushion, cake, curtain, or cardigan - is often associated with a gentler and more accomplished era.
Elsa Young
Her house is positioned on a grassy knoll separated from road and river by a tufted meadow, where sheep graze nonchalantly in a manner fitting to a pastoral idyll. Thrush and woodpecker vie for seed on Jeanetta's bird tables. Occasionally a car passes, a fisherman perhaps with rods on his roof, or the local postman making his rounds.
Elsa Young
Elsa Young
Jeanetta Rowan-Hamilton sews a cashmere jersey in her sitting room, which has the original tongue-and-groove wall panelling
Jeanetta's company, Nettles Cashmere, sells beautiful jerseys and cardigans that she sources and redesigns from vintage cashmere sweaters. 'Make and mend' is a favourite maxim. She takes a stall at five major sales a year and inevitably arrives in Scotland from her London flat with a car boot full of tweed, fabric and wool.
Elsa Young
Most people come to the Helmsdale, a North Highland river, to catch fish. It is renowned for its run of migrating Atlantic salmon. The Duke of Sutherland once owned the whole area, but in the nineteenth century it was divided into six estates, which were later sold, each with its own river beat. Nowadays the beats rotate over a week, and anglers can fish the whole system. This makes it highly desirable and many anglers can only dream of getting a place on the long waiting list.
Elsa Young
Elsa Young
Jeanetta's grandfather and maternal grandmother were invited by friends to fish every year, and they fell in love with the river. 'They bought the house from a policeman for £1,200 because, although it does not have rights over any fishing of its own, it occupies an ideal position for those who have secured fishing on any other beat,' she says.
Elsa Young
Jeanetta browses in Loth Station Antiques, where she sources many of her furnishings
Jeanetta's mother inherited the lodge from her parents and it was let to cousins for many years. After her divorce, Jeanetta and her two children, Caroline and Jamie, now aged 32 and 30, would come for weekends and holidays; then as now, there was no television or heating, only board games and Scrabble. Ten years ago, when her mother gave her the house, Jeanetta had to make a decision. Time had taken its toll and the place was in poor shape. Should she keep it? Luckily, Jeanetta had the necessary skills to make a go of it. She had been taught to cook by her mother and to sew by her nanny. Her Scottish father was in the army, and Jeanetta grew up in Perthshire with a brother and three sisters. 'My sisters were much nicer and played with other children. But I just wanted to sew and make cakes.' After school, she went to Paris to learn pattern cutting. Her working life evolved as she made lovely things for herself - and those close to her - that other people then lusted after madly. She has been commissioned to collate photograph albums for over 30 years, despite digital technology, because no computer can replicate the collages she does in wedding albums, or press-cutting books.
Elsa Young
She repainted a pair of Victorian beds that were her grandmother's
She was confident she was up to the challenge of restoring the lodge, but had very little money to employ builders and decorators. 'I was sitting in the house with Caroline and there was an actual hole visible in the floor, where a stoat came to live in winter,' she says. 'I said to Caroline, "Shall we sell the place and find something nearer home? Or shall we do something about it?" And she said firmly, "We shall do something about it." So we painted a sheet with the words House Sale and put everything we didn't want out on the grass.'
Elsa Young
The Bathroom
Word spread within hours and some antiques dealers arrived. A man who bought a table convinced Jeanetta she was capable of doing most of the work on the house herself. '"But where should I start?"' Jeanetta remembers asking incredulously. 'And the man said, "First find the drains." So Caroline and I dug around the house and then the bothy, which is now my workroom and guest house. And we found some very nasty drains.'
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Jeanetta and Ruby on the porch
It was the start of a 10-year programme. Local builders William Hendry and his son Douglas handled heavy building tasks, and Rowland Chamberlain worked on woodwork and shelving. There are now four bedrooms in the house and two bathrooms. Last year, she added a new dining room onto the kitchen.
Elsa Young
Jeanetta works on new designs in her office space at one end of the sitting room, using a desk and stool from Loth Station Antiques
Elsa Young
Discovery is a key to her enjoyment and when she finds something particularly inexpensive, she leaves its delicate white paper price tag to flutter from it like a tiny trophy. Loth Station Antiques, Rowland Chamberlain and his partner Clare Goulder's eclectic shop in a converted railway station at Loth Beach, has proved a treasure trove for Jeanetta, who is inexorably drawn towards their salvage section.
Elsa Young
A red-painted cupboard in the utility room stores coats and shoes
She has made kitchen shelves from fish boxes and bathroom shelves from old Lincolnshire cotton reels. 'Necessity is the mother of invention,' says Jeanetta. She abhors waste and loves change of usage. 'The concept of a rag rug is very appealing to me,' she explains mock seriously. Her views are definite, often emphatic: 'I absolutely hate things that match. My sister Sabrina gave me the dining chairs. But no two are the same.'
Elsa Young
Jeanetta hung a curtain made from old fabric to separate the utility room people | lifestyle 
As Jeanetta finds it hard to make decisions, she prefers it when there is less choice: 'I would rather find five buttons or one piece of fabric in a market, than go to a specialised button shop or department store. Though I might like to have a shop of my own one day. It would be worth it just to have an old-fashioned till.'
Elsa Young
Jeanetta strolls in the valley above the River Helmsdale
When it rains, Jeanetta works on photograph albums. When rain stops, Caroline's whippet, Ruby, nudges her out for a walk. Sometimes they drive over to a cove at Berriedale, known locally as The Shore, where a row of fishermen's cottages, built in 1820, have been beautifully restored for holiday rental by The Landmark Trust.
Elsa Young
Jeanetta and Ruby the whippet go for a walk along The Shore at Berriedale
Elsa Young
Every season brings delight. 'In April, I wake to the sound of deer munching grass outside my bedroom window,' says Jeanetta, who tackles the constant necessary house maintenance with infectious enthusiasm, baffling occasional urbane guests with talk of 'unblocking gullies'. She finds that her days are never quite long enough. A neighbour may drop round for a game of Scrabble and there is always another bonfire to build, or a chanterelle just waiting to be found.
Taken from the February 2015 issue of House & Garden.
Olinda Adeane meets Jeanetta Rowan-Hamilton, who updates and sells vintage garments through her company Nettles Cashmere, travelling between her London flat and a former fishing lodge in Scotland, which she has gradually restored.
Elsa Young
Tall birch trees surround the lodge
The house of Jeanetta Rowan-Hamilton in Sutherland, Scotland, resembles a favourite chilhood book of mine, The Wind in The Willows. It is not just the house is close to a river, but that she evidently shares author Kenneth Grahame's time-honoured view that interior decoration begins with a good log fire and a toasted teacake.
Jeanetta has restored her tin-roofed fishing lodge with great charm. There is nothing whimsical or twee about her taste, but her talent for making things herself - be it a cushion, cake, curtain, or cardigan - is often associated with a gentler and more accomplished era.
Elsa Young
Her house is positioned on a grassy knoll separated from road and river by a tufted meadow, where sheep graze nonchalantly in a manner fitting to a pastoral idyll. Thrush and woodpecker vie for seed on Jeanetta's bird tables. Occasionally a car passes, a fisherman perhaps with rods on his roof, or the local postman making his rounds.
Elsa Young
Elsa Young
Jeanetta Rowan-Hamilton sews a cashmere jersey in her sitting room, which has the original tongue-and-groove wall panelling
Jeanetta's company, Nettles Cashmere, sells beautiful jerseys and cardigans that she sources and redesigns from vintage cashmere sweaters. 'Make and mend' is a favourite maxim. She takes a stall at five major sales a year and inevitably arrives in Scotland from her London flat with a car boot full of tweed, fabric and wool.
Elsa Young
Most people come to the Helmsdale, a North Highland river, to catch fish. It is renowned for its run of migrating Atlantic salmon. The Duke of Sutherland once owned the whole area, but in the nineteenth century it was divided into six estates, which were later sold, each with its own river beat. Nowadays the beats rotate over a week, and anglers can fish the whole system. This makes it highly desirable and many anglers can only dream of getting a place on the long waiting list.
Elsa Young
Elsa Young
Jeanetta's grandfather and maternal grandmother were invited by friends to fish every year, and they fell in love with the river. 'They bought the house from a policeman for £1,200 because, although it does not have rights over any fishing of its own, it occupies an ideal position for those who have secured fishing on any other beat,' she says.
Elsa Young
Jeanetta browses in Loth Station Antiques, where she sources many of her furnishings
Jeanetta's mother inherited the lodge from her parents and it was let to cousins for many years. After her divorce, Jeanetta and her two children, Caroline and Jamie, now aged 32 and 30, would come for weekends and holidays; then as now, there was no television or heating, only board games and Scrabble. Ten years ago, when her mother gave her the house, Jeanetta had to make a decision. Time had taken its toll and the place was in poor shape. Should she keep it? Luckily, Jeanetta had the necessary skills to make a go of it. She had been taught to cook by her mother and to sew by her nanny. Her Scottish father was in the army, and Jeanetta grew up in Perthshire with a brother and three sisters. 'My sisters were much nicer and played with other children. But I just wanted to sew and make cakes.' After school, she went to Paris to learn pattern cutting. Her working life evolved as she made lovely things for herself - and those close to her - that other people then lusted after madly. She has been commissioned to collate photograph albums for over 30 years, despite digital technology, because no computer can replicate the collages she does in wedding albums, or press-cutting books.
Elsa Young
She repainted a pair of Victorian beds that were her grandmother's
Jeanetta's grandfather and maternal grandmother were invited by friends to fish every year, and they fell in love with the river. 'They bought the house from a policeman for £1,200 because, although it does not have rights over any fishing of its own, it occupies an ideal position for those who have secured fishing on any other beat,' she says.
Elsa Young
Jeanetta browses in Loth Station Antiques, where she sources many of her furnishings
Jeanetta's mother inherited the lodge from her parents and it was let to cousins for many years. After her divorce, Jeanetta and her two children, Caroline and Jamie, now aged 32 and 30, would come for weekends and holidays; then as now, there was no television or heating, only board games and Scrabble. Ten years ago, when her mother gave her the house, Jeanetta had to make a decision. Time had taken its toll and the place was in poor shape. Should she keep it? Luckily, Jeanetta had the necessary skills to make a go of it. She had been taught to cook by her mother and to sew by her nanny. Her Scottish father was in the army, and Jeanetta grew up in Perthshire with a brother and three sisters. 'My sisters were much nicer and played with other children. But I just wanted to sew and make cakes.' After school, she went to Paris to learn pattern cutting. Her working life evolved as she made lovely things for herself - and those close to her - that other people then lusted after madly. She has been commissioned to collate photograph albums for over 30 years, despite digital technology, because no computer can replicate the collages she does in wedding albums, or press-cutting books.
She was confident she was up to the challenge of restoring the lodge, but had very little money to employ builders and decorators. 'I was sitting in the house with Caroline and there was an actual hole visible in the floor, where a stoat came to live in winter,' she says. 'I said to Caroline, "Shall we sell the place and find something nearer home? Or shall we do something about it?" And she said firmly, "We shall do something about it." So we painted a sheet with the words House Sale and put everything we didn't want out on the grass.'
Elsa Young
The Bathroom
Word spread within hours and some antiques dealers arrived. A man who bought a table convinced Jeanetta she was capable of doing most of the work on the house herself. '"But where should I start?"' Jeanetta remembers asking incredulously. 'And the man said, "First find the drains." So Caroline and I dug around the house and then the bothy, which is now my workroom and guest house. And we found some very nasty drains.'
Elsa YoungElsa Young
Jeanetta and Ruby on the porch
It was the start of a 10-year programme. Local builders William Hendry and his son Douglas handled heavy building tasks, and Rowland Chamberlain worked on woodwork and shelving. There are now four bedrooms in the house and two bathrooms. Last year, she added a new dining room onto the kitchen.
Elsa Young
Jeanetta works on new designs in her office space at one end of the sitting room, using a desk and stool from Loth Station Antiques
Elsa Young
Discovery is a key to her enjoyment and when she finds something particularly inexpensive, she leaves its delicate white paper price tag to flutter from it like a tiny trophy. Loth Station Antiques, Rowland Chamberlain and his partner Clare Goulder's eclectic shop in a converted railway station at Loth Beach, has proved a treasure trove for Jeanetta, who is inexorably drawn towards their salvage section.
Elsa Young
A red-painted cupboard in the utility room stores coats and shoes
She has made kitchen shelves from fish boxes and bathroom shelves from old Lincolnshire cotton reels. 'Necessity is the mother of invention,' says Jeanetta. She abhors waste and loves change of usage. 'The concept of a rag rug is very appealing to me,' she explains mock seriously. Her views are definite, often emphatic: 'I absolutely hate things that match. My sister Sabrina gave me the dining chairs. But no two are the same.'
Elsa Young
Jeanetta hung a curtain made from old fabric to separate the utility room people | lifestyle 
As Jeanetta finds it hard to make decisions, she prefers it when there is less choice: 'I would rather find five buttons or one piece of fabric in a market, than go to a specialised button shop or department store. Though I might like to have a shop of my own one day. It would be worth it just to have an old-fashioned till.'
Elsa Young
Jeanetta strolls in the valley above the River Helmsdale
When it rains, Jeanetta works on photograph albums. When rain stops, Caroline's whippet, Ruby, nudges her out for a walk. Sometimes they drive over to a cove at Berriedale, known locally as The Shore, where a row of fishermen's cottages, built in 1820, have been beautifully restored for holiday rental by The Landmark Trust.
Elsa Young
Jeanetta and Ruby the whippet go for a walk along The Shore at Berriedale
Elsa Young
Every season brings delight. 'In April, I wake to the sound of deer munching grass outside my bedroom window,' says Jeanetta, who tackles the constant necessary house maintenance with infectious enthusiasm, baffling occasional urbane guests with talk of 'unblocking gullies'. She finds that her days are never quite long enough. A neighbour may drop round for a game of Scrabble and there is always another bonfire to build, or a chanterelle just waiting to be found.
Different kinds of home warrant different kinds of guest room - creating a little nook in a city apartment requires a contrasting approach to accommodating friends and family in a large house. Emily Senior talks to some accomplished hosts about decorating and furnishing spare rooms
1 'Vilas', by Penny Morrison, linen, 140cm wide, £157.40 a metre, at Redloh House Fabrics; backed in'Colonel'(N-009), linen, 134cm wide, £96 a metre, at Fermoie.2 'Avignon'(green on vert), by Le Gracieux, hemp linen, 137cm wide, £298 a metre, at Tissus d' Hélène; backed in'Clean Slate'(N-031), linen, 134cm wide, £96 a metre, at Fermoie.3 'Fez Border'(sage), by Martyn Lawrence Bullard, linen, £216 metre, at Tissus d'Hélène; backed in'Poulton Stripe'(L-061), cotton, 134cm wide, £96 a metre, at Fermoie.4 'Gustav Peony Panel', by Brigitte Singh, cotton, 285 x 150cm, £126, at Aleta; backed in 'Figured Linen' (N-073), linen, 134cm wide, £96 a metre, at Fermoie. 5 Hand- embroidered, 'Moghul Flower' (FN013), by Neisha Crosland, linen, 113cm wide, £249 a metre, at Chelsea Textiles; backed in 'Heatherug' (N-043), linen, 134cm wide, £96 a metre, at Fermoie. Cotton ribbons, 'Cambridge Strie Braid' (from left: parsley, magenta, jade, saffron and espresso), 3.8cm wide, £29 a metre, at Samuel & Sons.
Many people dream of a beachside home where they can retire and spend their golden years basking in the summer sun and ocean air. But for the lucky few, it is possible to make these dreams come true a bit earlier, as is the case for this modern Australian home from the architects at Rolf Ockert Design. Overlooking the ocean, this house was designed to feel like a vacation home despite its status as a primary residence. From the angular exterior to the sleek furnishings and luxurious backyard, it is a dreamy space that feels like endless summer.
From any angle, the exterior with its stacked levels and warm wood is modern without any of the minimalist foreboding that can imply. A second level deck complete with its own open skylight is a fun and relaxing space to enjoy morning coffee or evening cocktails.
As with many beachfront neighborhoods, the architects were forced to deal with the reality of many homes packed closely together as well as clients who want to feel like they have their own private ocean. By including tall walls that separate the house from its neighbors but still have gaps and glimpses, inside the home can really feel like its own private island.
The ocean views are not only aesthetically stunning, but provide cool breezes that filter into the open design and keep the space cool even during hot months.
The interior is on trend with plenty of clean lines and cozy neutrals without getting too trendy and thereby veering away from the timeless. Instead, linens and earth tones keep things warm and perfect all year round, not betraying any generational preferences or quirks.
The gorgeous house is also constructed in such a welcoming and stylish way that the owners have also made it rentable, so they can supplement their income and enjoy their beachside lifestyle for many years to come.
Ester Segarra 
