Home by the Sea

One of my great dreams is to live by the sea. To see the sky and weather change with the sound of waves crashing against sand or rock.  Feeling the winds breath through my hair as it makes every attempt to pull my handspun sweater or shawl from my shoulders.  I don't care where the coordinates are of the location of the home is...I just want to be near the sea.  This need is only magnified each and every time I return from the water so I indulge my need with photos of homes by the sea.

Love this wraparound porch of this lazy looking beach house.

The ice cream colors of these beach houses make them look like doll houses.

These are rental homes in Tahiti...Love the idea of sleeping over the water and then being able to jump in and go diving at any given whim.

This home may need some TLC, but I love it, especially the iron widows walk at the top of the roof.  I can imagine the women who stood there looking out for when their sea captain returns.  I know, you can say it...I romance homes of this sort, but I so believe they carry a marvelous spirit within. 

Oh yes.  I could live in a lighthouse like this. 

Or like this one.  Lighthouses also entice with a mys'teec about them.  I've always been drawn to the lightkeepers home, it must be the commitment to ensure a safe passage into the harbor that I admire.

However, my favorite home by the sea, hands down is the Owens Sisters home in Practical Magic.  Everything about this home calls me.  I am "at home" when I look at these pictures or watch the movie.  I will watch Practical Magic just to enter that home over and over again.

This home with its fabulous gables and widows walk at the top.  A lightkeepers attic that looks out to the sea below.  Heaven to me.  Absolute heaven.

The view from the street and the ocean in the background. sigh.

Side porch is perfect for tea and reading or just day dreaming.

The Conservatory looks out over the sea. Love the way nature has grown into in and around it.

So many of the angles of this house provides an entrance to the sea.

A view of that magnficent kitchen with the marvelous pantry of cupboards all around.

One of my favorite rooms in this magnificent house...the dining room. The room evolved into a work room and when I first saw the loom and spinning wheel turning, my heart leapt.  I have two spinning wheels, one a great walking wheel like in the picture and then a Scottish Castle Wheel of which I spin on. 

The wheels, the looms, the wools, the silks, the cottons, the fibers...if I cannot be in the water, I want to be immersed in fiber.

So there you have it.  My dream home is the Practical Magic house by the sea.   Do you have a favorite house, please share in a future post and let me know to link to it.

Sea Witch