Houzz Tour: Charming Cottage Style on the Oregon Coast
http://www.decor-ideas.org 01/28/2015 02:13 Decor Ideas
Barbara Hyde Evans completes many high-end interior designs for her clients, but when it came to her own beach house on Oregon’s Rockaway Beach, the designer’s ingenuity helped her keep to her tight budget. She pilfered pieces from her primary residence in Seattle, repurposed a few things that her clients had rejected over the years, used some furniture that came with the house, sought out unique vintage and antique finds at home in Seattle and locally along the coast, and even painted some artwork herself. The result is a picture-perfect inviting coastal cottage where she enjoys spending time checking out local restaurants and antiques stores, hiking, skimboarding, walking on the beach and simply unwinding while contemplating the view.
Photos by Nik Johnson and Sam Hyde Evans
Houzz at a Glance
Who lives here: This is a weekend getaway for interior designer Barbara Hyde Evans.
Location: Rockaway Beach, Oregon
Size: 1,300 square feet (121 square meters); 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms
The house was move-in ready, with cottage elements like tongue and groove walls, beadboard ceilings and mahogany floors, when the designer scooped it up, so most of her work was just doing light cosmetic touches and furnishing.
This just-right kitchen, with its butcher block countertops, beadboard cabinets and glass cabinet doors, sealed the deal for Hyde Evans. “This kitchen is just too dang cute — as soon as I saw it, I said, ‘I need to have this house,’” she says. She added a collection of black and white photographs of beaches and shells, and a marble block on the counter for chopping, and her work in here was done.
The original front door has a porthole window that sets a nautical tone. Hyde Evans went with it without going overboard, incorporating unique collections of objects from ships and shells; she even threw in antique wooden marine floats.
A driftwood globe chandelier serves as a stunning rustic focal point in the dining room and complements the views of surf, sand and sea grass. “I love this chandelier so much, but I had to wear out my tape measurer making sure it would fit into the space,” Hyde Evans says. She measured carefully to check that she and her guests could see each other across the table and that it wouldn’t block the views.
She picked up the table specifically for the house, but she already had the antique chairs at home. They have a shell motif, and once she painted them white and reupholstered the seat cushions in a blue coral-patterned indoor-outdoor fabric, it became clear they were always meant to be here.
Driftwood Orb Chandelier: Curry & Company; chair fabric: Pindler and Pindler Outdoor
Hyde Evans bought some original “shelltanical” artworks, but when she got them to the house, they were too small. No big deal; a designer knows how to adjust. She had them blown up and framed to fit just right.
She collects shells for the wooden bowl on her table just about everywhere but the beach outside her door. “Everything gets so pounded on this beach that it’s rare a shell stays whole,” she says. “I leave other beach trips with shells in my pockets and bring them here.”
In the living room, the large artwork — by Seattle artist Joe Max Emminger — inspired the green accents the designer used throughout the room. With the exception of the sofa, almost all of the fabrics in the home are indoor-outdoor so as to stand up to wet beachgoers.
Several items came with the house, including the beautiful antique trunk she uses as a coffee table. Hyde Evans has collected antique brass ship parts for the house herself — on the side table you can see a compass and a lantern. We’re not sure what the sculptural piece in the corner next to the glass doors is, but it’s handsome!
Sofa fabric: Kravet; sofa pillows fabric; Martin Lawrence Bullard for Schumacher; chair pillows fabric: S. Harris
“When you don’t have a lot of space, it’s great to be able to head outdoors,” she says. These are the same doors we saw in the dining room and the same woven chairs we saw in the living room. She moves the chairs from indoors to out a lot — they are durable enough to stand up to the elements, and the fabrics are indoor-outdoor.
The cozy TV room on the second floor is warmed by a pine ceiling. French doors behind the sofa lead out to a balcony. The large sofa came with the place. “It’s so huge, it was all but impossible to get out of the house, so I slipcovered it in a linen-like indoor-outdoor fabric and left it,” she says. The sofa is so deep that people love to sleep on it, so this room can serve as an extra bedroom when needed. Hyde Evans planned the rest of the furnishings and layout to match its scale, including pairing the chairs side by side and choosing a large tufted ottoman.
The telescope also came with the house; she uses it for bird-watching and to check out passing ships. She has always loved sailboat models, and once she bought the house, she finally had an excuse to scoop this one up at a Seattle antiques shop.
The designer needed some art for the wall but also needed to stick to her budget, so she painted it herself. She had picked up the bergère chairs for a client who wound up not using them, so she had them reupholstered and moved them to the beach house.
Rug: Diamond in Denim and White, Dash & Albert, sconces: Visual Comfort, Circa Lighting; chair fabric: Barclay Butera for Kravet
For her bedroom she designed custom bedding and window treatments in a lovely blue paisley fabric by Nautica for Robert Allen. Note that she linked the window treatment behind the bed to the one over the dresser by using long Roman shades on them both.
The marble lamp and side table came from her home in Seattle, and she picked up the vintage dresser from a local shop. The wingback is an antique McGuire bamboo chair that she softened with a slipcover. The vintage oar was a Seattle find, and the wood chandelier is from Currey & Company.
“The first time I ever saw flour sacks used like this was on an island in Greece years ago, and it always stuck with me,” Hyde Evans says. Their simple stripes set the tone in the second bedroom, which has a European coastal flair.
Typical of beach cottages, the bedroom does not have a closet, so the designer made a row of coat hooks a design feature in the charmingly rustic room. The blue trunk, a Seattle antique find, serves as additional storage. A rope with wooden antique floats adds a sculptural touch. The sconce is from Schoolhouse Eclectic, which just happens to be along the route from Seattle to Rockaway Beach.
Paint: Toasty Gray, Glidden; window shade fabric: Lee Jofa
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