Perfect Beach Cottage!
by habituallychic
08 . 31 . 08
I work on a lot of very expensive homes at work but they have nothing on this cute little beach cottage in the Hamptons owned by Lezlie Klotz. It was featured in the July 2008 issue of House Beautiful magazine and I fell in love with it the minute I saw it since it’s exactly how I would want my beach house to look and feel. It’s simply perfect! 
“A yellow-cab-colored surfboard makes a curiously good match for an antique painted chest that belonged to Klotz’s grandmother. Portrait of Show Business, Klotz’s childhood pony, by Edith Diehl.”
“Jonathan Adler needlepoint pillows pop on a sofa and a striped club chair, both designed by Steven Gambrel. The Italian caned chair was Leslie Klotz’s grandmother’s, and the curtains are by her late mother, interior designer Patricia Hopkins Klotz. The Lucite coffee table, bench, and side table holding the glass ball lamp are antiques show finds. The blue lamp is by Christopher Spitzmiller.”
“Seahorses from an garden antiques store are the wow factor in the dining room of a Hamptons cottage. Louis XVI–style dining chairs are covered in a jaunty shade of chartreuse leather, and backed in a coral and white print. The table is from Liza Sherman Antiques.”
There is nothing I love more than art in a kitchen!
“In redoing the kitchen, Klotz “imagined I could actually cook. Then I tried to create a kitchen that an actual cook would want to cook in. And believe it or not, now I do cook. It was like my own personal Field of Dreams.” Hanging lights from Rejuvenation.”
In a guest room, the red painted headboards perfectly match the red toile lamp. 
“In the sitting area adjacent to a guest room, wide-planked wainscoting in white and a deep navy wall create a graphic sense of spaciousness.”
This bedroom is my favorite and would be the most perfect place to rest after a long day at the beach! “Klotz found the quilt at a Brimfield summer antiques show and the accent pillow in Venice. Lamp by Christopher Spitzmiller. Wall color is Spring Mint and trim is Light Touch, both by Benjamin Moore.”
“An old birch bench holds books in a lavender guest bedroom.”
Big bold stripes were created in a bathroom with Benjamin Moore Apple Green and Decorator’s White paint.
I love how the seahorse became a running motif both inside and outside the house! 
Photos by Laura Resen
14 Comments
Hi I just saw Bridget’s recommendation for your blog and once again Bridget got it spot on, Your blog is wonderful, I have also just spent a perfect long weekend in New York but I wish I had seen your blog before I went. Kathy
That beach home is decorated beautifully. The practical side of me says, “where are the rugs?”. I bet this isn’t a quiet house with all that wood and no buffers!
It’s the happiest home I have ever seen. I loved that issue.
That paining over the sofa is great. I love how so much of the house is so grown up and cool, but doesn’t take itself too seriously.
this bathroom looks so cute
Gina from Germany
Beautiful !!!!, Fabric on chairs (1th picture – I love it).
Just perfect for our Australian Summer.
Thank You
I hope some people take these ideas as “year-rounders.” We don’t have to dress our homes like we live in a tundra, only our little bodies.
That bathroom is just fabulous stripes are always my favourite!
Any idea who did the painting above the sofa with the Alder pillows?
I am loving the red headboards especially. This home is stunning. Thanks for sharing.
yep, its perfect
That first picture is perfect – made me subscribe to House Beautiful. Well, that & decorno raving about the mag.
I’m loving this beach home! The designs are clean and refreshing. I want to save these photos for when I can afford to buy a house by the ocean… 🙂
Giant yellow sea horses. Wow, indeed! Great cottage.
Club chairs in the first picture was upholstered by JM Upholstery INC.
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