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Beach House Design Photos of the Week — 4 November 2026
This week's automatically published photo feature — beach house design photos of the week with a close look at coastal materials, shelter and views, plus the design decisions behind each visual.
What makes a design photograph well is usually the same thing that makes it pleasant to live in: clear geometry, generous circulation, honest materials and light handled with care. This week's collection has been chosen to show that overlap as plainly as possible.
This week the focus is coastal materials, shelter and views. Classic and modern coastal homes, dune gardens, decks and ocean-front living. The eight visuals selected below all come from that part of the library, and each one has been chosen because it shows a different answer to the same design question rather than eight versions of one idea.
The designs featured this week are: Hamptons-Style Beach House Design with Silvered Hardwood Screens and Beach Access Path, Firepit Circle; Hamptons-Style Beach House Design with Silvered Hardwood Screens and Beach Access Path, Firepit Circle; Relaxed Seaside Holiday Home Design with White Weatherboard Cladding and Verandah Lounge, BBQ Bench; Hamptons-Style Beach House Design with Silvered Hardwood Screens and Beach Access Path, Firepit Circle; Dune-Side Beach House Design with Bleached Timber Battens and Wide Ocean-View Deck, Outdoor Shower; Relaxed Seaside Holiday Home Design with White Weatherboard Cladding and Verandah Lounge, BBQ Bench; Relaxed Seaside Holiday Home Design with White Weatherboard Cladding and Verandah Lounge, BBQ Bench; Dune-Side Beach House Design with Bleached Timber Battens and Wide Ocean-View Deck, Outdoor Shower. Read them as a set — the useful comparison is not which one is prettiest, it is which layout suits the shape of your block, the direction your living areas face, and the way your household actually uses the space outside the back door.
Design the levels and the drainage before anything is built on top of them. Set the height of every terrace, step and lawn against the finished floor level of the house, fall surfaces away from the building, drain behind every retaining wall, and run spare conduits under every path and paved area for the lighting, irrigation and services you will want later.
Start with the plan rather than the products. Mark boundaries, the house footprint, doors and windows, existing trees, the fall of the land, the summer and winter sun path, and the views out of the rooms you use most. Almost every good decision that follows comes from that one drawing, and almost every expensive mistake comes from skipping it.
Solve shade before furniture. A roof, a pergola, a canopy or a well placed tree is what converts a paved area into a room that is used through summer and through rain. Furniture arranged in the open sun looks good in photographs taken in October and sits empty in February.
The next weekly feature arrives on Wednesday with a new theme and a new set of design visuals, so the library continues to grow week by week. Every image on this site was created for Home Design Photos and can be viewed full size in the complete image catalogue.
