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An A team design team creates a house that exemplifies luxury and leisure on the coast.

- By Nancy A. Ruhling

The 27-foot-high fireplace anchors the main living spaces. The dining room opens to the kitchen, the living room, and the outdoors, yet each room has its own distinguishing features.

Second homes offer not only the opportunity to live in a different geographical location but also the chance to do so in a totally different style, which, if carefully curated, provides the best of both worlds.

Such is the case of a couple with grown children and grandchildren who split their time between Florida and the coastal town of Swampscott, an area where they, themselves, had grown up.

The living room has two swivel chairs and two white sofas positioned for TV watching. The white-oak coffee table, designed by Regan Couto, has storage below.

Their Sunshine State residence is a collage of color, and their former home in Swampscott was a 1900s traditional structure.

When they bought a plot of land overlooking Fred Bliss Rocks, they commissioned architect Jeff Tucker to design a modern waterfront residence that exemplifies a lifestyle of luxurious leisure and asked Regan Couto, owner and principal designer at AG&Co Interior Design, to create soothing spaces that put the view, which includes Boston, center stage. Brandon Scimone of S&S Construction helped to make these designs a reality.

The front façade is more traditional, paving the way for the more contemporary back. The cedar shingles are painted oyster grey.

The land had been subdivided, and the only structure on their part of the property was a pool and pool house set like a diamond in the rocks.