GOING coastal
Travel, when we’re allowed to do it, broadens the mind, and with it, our taste in design. Who hasn’t come back from a holiday and brought a little of it back with them? It might be a souvenir, a piece of furniture, or the inspiration for a makeover to try and recapture that feeling of blissful relaxation we’ve enjoyed for a week or two.
John Carver and his wife, Anna, have become skilled at reinventing the most ordinary-looking buildings and turning them into homes with roots in the American coast or its artistic communities. For their latest project, they took an unremarkable 1970s British bungalow and transformed it into a chilled-out beach home where vintage water skis hang
