Cozy Meets Coastal

A Cape Cod charmer that's as see-worthy as they come.

- By Karin Lidbeck-Brent. Photographs by Liz Daly

When you live minutes from the Atlantic Ocean, have his-and-her boats, and run your own oyster farm, doing a beachy kitchen comes naturally. Katie and Eric Hooper had been raring to make it happen in their Falmouth, MA, cottage. The original was pretty awful, with dingy beige cabinets and gray laminate countertops, but we wanted to save enough money to do it right, she says. In the meantime, she toured historic beach homes in the neighborhood, picking up ideas for staying true to their house's 1950s roots.