The Other Side of the Living Room
The cottage has three rooms, plus a small loft. Through the blue door on the left is the master bedroom. To the right of the fireplace is the kitchen.

(1) The paint
The walls, trim, and sashes are done in three shades of Benjamin Moore gray to evoke stormy-day skies.

(2) The fish
The tarpon above the fireplace was caught in the twenties.

(3) The rope ladder
It leads to the fifteen-by-twenty-foot sleeping loft that has two twin beds and a five-foot ceiling.

(4) The shell
Was found at a Hamptons garage sale.

(5) The cobbler’s wood stool
Was found in Gloucester, Massachusetts.