It would be easy to miss Jamie Young’s house. It is a low, white slab 1930s cottage set modestly at the end of a meandering track. The interior, too, won’t make you stop and stare. But that’s precisely the point of this seaside home, which, thanks to a skilful overhaul by Sophie Ashby of Studio Ashby, feels as calm as a schooner on a millpond-smooth sea; an inviting, maritime retreat of azure, indigo and cerulean blues where deep sofas beckon and light floods through wide windows.
Lured by the beachfront location, Jamie, who was ‘brought up on boats,’ bought the former gardener’s cottage in 1990. ‘Since then, I’ve extended it as funds allowed, in a piecemeal fashion. But the way we live has changed,’ says Jamie, who runs an investment…
