Southern Home

Steeped in Tradition

ore than a dozen years ago, a Birmingham couple wanted to purchase a place at the beach and found a 1950s concrete block house high on the bluff in Seagrove, Florida. “With a tweak here and there, the little cottage was perfect for us,” explains the homeowner. But a decade later, their children were grown and starting families of their own. Their goal was a bigger house with the character and feel of a vintage Florida cottage. “We wanted

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