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Malibu Beach House Design by Trip Haenisch

Interior designer, Trip Haenisch, has decorated homes for many celebrities including Courteney Cox’s Malibu retreat.  Love all the details and of this surfer chic Malibu beach house charmer that he created.  Easy, beach-living design.

Welcome aboard. The entry of the house is defined by horizontal lines. The front door, by architect Tryggvi Thorsteinsson of the firm <a href="http://www.minarc.com">Minarc</a>, is slatted teak with a glass backing. Nautical lighting fixtures add to the home's beachy character.

When you have a view of the water, Haenisch said, you don't want too many things that stop the eye.

At one end of the living-dining space, a vintage Arthur Umanoff bar with a woven fiber panel and hanging rattan chair from <a href="http://www.reform-modern.com/">Reform Gallery</a> add a touch of organic Modernism. Wide-plank vertical paneling and simple blinds keep the room casual. On the wall, behind the chair: aquatic prints by <a href="https://www.charleyharperprints.com/">Charley Harper</a>. On the bar, another nautical touch: a lighthouse cocktail shaker.

"I like powder rooms that are a departure. It's a moment where you can do something different, a fun way to deliver the color palette," Haenisch said of the <a href="http://www.cole-and-son.com/home.asp">Cole & Son</a> Rajapur wallpaper in the lime-turquoise color scheme. "If you did it in a whole large room, it would be obnoxious."

Just a bit of the powder room's exuberance spills out to the staircase to the second floor. "The client likes bright and cheery colors and wanted to do the house in yellow and turquoise," Haenisch said. "For a month I had insomnia. I couldn't imagine doing it." The solution was to confine the strong colors to small spaces. Note how the artwork in the turquoise frame draws the eye toward the wallpaper and the yellow-framed artwork in the bathroom."

In an upstairs guest bedroom, the color scheme gets even stronger. "It's all about the volume of the color," Haenisch said. "If you ground really bright colors with neutrals and natural materials, like the rush headboard, it will lower the volume and richen the look." Haenisch turned lacquered Parsons tables into nightstands. The striped fabric on the pillow and Roman blinds is from <a href="http://www.osborneandlittle.com/">Osborne & Little</a>. The map on the wall and ethnic print pillows add a sense of adventure.

The master has a four-poster bed designed by <a href="http://www.christian-liaigre.fr/">Christian Liaigre</a> with posts painted white that Haenisch likes because they disappear against the white wall. "A TV at the foot of the bed is the bane of my existence," said the designer, who covered the box that holds the screen in a fiber material.

A sitting area at the end of the master bedroom has a love seat and pillows covered in block print Indian fabric by John Robshaw. A rope basket holds firewood for the hearth.

The master bathroom takes the beach house fantasy literally, right down to the seashell night light and hand soaps on the vanity. Haenisch selected the shells himself and had the mirror made to hang on a wall of oceanic blue Venetian plaster.

The house was remodeled to maximize ocean exposures. Following the mission to do nothing that would spoil the view, the ipe wood deck has wall panels made of glass and low-lying chaises.

images via La Times

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  2. Kathysue says

    Omgosh!! I can not even imagine living on the water and waking up to that view every day. Okay I can imagine it, only in my dreams. I could move right in, Kathysue

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  3. Carolyn@SweetChaos says

    Gorgeous! That view from the living area is stunning. I wonder if that hanging chair is an antique? I remember our neighbors having 2 of those back in the 70s… though not in that pretty blue color 🙂

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  4. The enchanted home says

    Like the interiors, not love but a strong like, I generally like a little warmer and cozier (just me) BUT those views are beyond, its the next best thing to having a house built in the middle of the ocean. A view like that never ever gets old!

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