Who can resist the romance of a simple little place on the beach, where the living seems as effortless and charming as the décor? Coastal cottages are wildly popular right now, popping up on the ...

When Michael Murphy was asked to work on a 1942 beach cottage in Stone Harbor, the plan was to tear the place down. There was good reason to do so. Previous renovations had been haphazard, and the ...

It’s easy to imagine that owning multiple homes might make it complicated to feel deeply rooted to one in particular. But for a surfing art collector and his husband, only one is where they wish to ...