BELOW, the feeling is one of being at sea in this south facing bedroom. OPPOSITE TOP, an aerial shot of the Sandyland community. OPPOSITE CENTER AND BOTTOM, easy, breezy and lots of room for company has made this room perfect for entertaining now and in the past. Vintage photo from a 1938 issue of Country Life and The Sportsman magazine.
showers and beautifully patterned linoleum floors provide a clean, functional feeling to the whimsical space that Country Life and The Sportsman magazine, in their June 1938 article “Marine Modern,” described as “gay in spirit and, at the same time, bursting with a practicality that can never be dull.” Little has been done to alter de Forest’s original
plan. “It is exactly the same, except there is heat, there is no interior garage door and no day beds on either side of the fireplace,” said Ms. Taylor. One of her favorite stories about the house
centers on several interior design additions that first made their debut in Hollywood. Ms. Taylor recounted the story behind the house’s ship-inspired decor in the January-February 2002 issue of Coastal Living that featured the Sandyland house, “As a young man, my father worked for Llewellyn Steel and Ironworks, which made the props for the first “Mutiny on the
Bounty” film with Charles Laughton. He salvaged the ship’s wheel from the set and hung it over the fire- place.” According to the article, “portholes from the movie
set became windows and ship propellers were trans- formed into lamp bases.” Those nautical additions, in addition to the interior’s sleek white and blue palate, further emphasize the house’s feeling of being a serene oceanside retreat. The house, originally a vacation home built by
Reese H. Taylor, Ms. Taylor’s father, was the backdrop for many fond memories from childhood. “The best memories I have are spending hours in the marsh which had numerous channels passable by canoes,” she said. Since December 2003, the house has been her
full-time abode. Although the town has changed, Ms. Taylor remembers Carpinteria in its early days. “What
TRUE TO DE FOREST’S IDEALS OF DESIGNING GARDENS AND THIS BEACHSIDE HOME IS AN
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