THIS PAGE: A long porch spans one side of the house, providing expansive room to enjoy the views. Seabrook’s landscape designer Stephen Poulakos chose native plants such as sea grass and Lupine to create the feeling of being down by the shore. The outdoor living space between the main house and the carriage house includes a gray, stone fireplace and a grill. Small arch top wall lanterns from Circa hang along the covered walkway, and are the perfect vintage-inspired addition to the simple space.
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hen you’re looking to get out of town, nothing beats a stay on the coast. And whether you’re looking for a cottage for two or a large house that sleeps 18, the beachfront community of Seabrook, Washington, offers an array of options for getaways. Nineteen of those options in the area were designed by Portland-based designer Tracy Chumbley of Tracy Noelle Interiors, who counts Seabrook as an important part of her career. In 2007, Casey Roloff, founder of the town of Seabrook, contacted Chumbley to design the interiors of a home on the Oregon coast. “I’ve designed at least 40 beach homes, Chumbley says. “That was never really something I had as a goal for my-
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self, but it’s probably a good 60 to 70 percent of what I do now.” From that collaboration, a close working relationship grew between the pair. After Coastal Living magazine’s show home at Seabrook in 2010 ended, Chumbley was given the creative freedom to stage the home as a rental while it was for sale. Later, when Anthology (another property management company) bought the home in 20111, she was hired again and given even more creative freedom. “They wanted to use the home as a luxury rental,” she explains. “But Seabrook is whimsical and a bit eclectic, so we had to work on achieving a balance there.” Since the house already had great structural design, Chumbley worked with a combination of colors and simple