By Erin Ferucci
Celebrity Lifestyle Designer
When an azure ocean is your backdrop simplicity is key to any successful design.
Coastal Living is featuring this beautifully elegant seaside home in their current issue. 
The owner, Jim Delemeter, is an emergency room doctor who was inspired by the work of Luis Barragan, a Mexican architect renowned for creating minimal masterpieces out of concrete. 
The simple elegance of the sculpted concrete walls has a variety of design benefits. It creates a neutral background which allows the blues and greens of the surrounding environment to be unhampered. 
The concrete also provides a practical solution to weatherproofing, the steel enforced concrete walls have proven capable of withstanding even hurricane winds.
The interior designer for the home, created a beautiful, warm home atmosphere through a use of a minimalist array of neutral textiles. 
photo credits: lisa romerein
Coastal Living is featuring this beautifully elegant seaside home in their current issue. The owner, Jim Delemeter, is an emergency room doctor who was inspired by the work of Luis Barragan, a Mexican architect renowned for creating minimal masterpieces out of concrete. The simple elegance of the sculpted concrete walls has a variety of design benefits. It creates a neutral background which allows the blues and greens of the surrounding environment to be unhampered. The concrete also provides a practical solution to weatherproofing, the steel enforced concrete walls have proven capable of withstanding even hurricane winds. The interior designer for the home, created a beautiful, warm home atmosphere through a use of a minimalist array of neutral textiles. photo credits: lisa romerein 
I'd rather be on an island. When you live on an island you don't feel pressured to stand in line at Target to buy wrapping paper for the holidays, you wrap gifts in coconut husks, or hide them in gianormous conch shell! Talk about reduce, reuse and recycle!
When you live on an island you don't feel pressured to make New Year's Resolutions. Everyday as you watch the sunset over the ocean you are automatically reminded of the fleeting beauty of life, so you make every moment count. 
When you live on an island, the new Victoria Secret doesn't arrive in your mailbox in the dead of February, it strolls past your villa every day of the week. It doesn't pressure you into being some ideal, it just exists. I'd rather be on an island! 
It's everywhere!!!!
It's lovely but not at all inexpensive.
She left behind a pair of angel wings on my bedside table, for an angel to watch over me. 
Although it has to be said, "What were they thinking with the shredded bedspread!
My final trip to Tatoosh is one of my fondest memories. The design work was essentially done; all that was left was to add some essential accessories. 
A helicopter picked me up on the heliopad at the port in Antibes. 
My Louis Vuittan luggage and I were whisked away like royalty to our destination in the middle of the Mediterranean where we landed on the roof of Tatoosh! There is nothing like landing a helicopter on huge yacht in the middle of the ocean. After years of hard work it was ten minutes of sheer heaven.
We landed and I stepped out of the helicopter, the wind was blowing, I was in this glorious setting and I was struck by the fact that I was staring in my own little Prada ad. 
You know what I mean, glamour, excitement and gorgeous luxury everywhere. The memory still makes me smile. The immaculate crew of beautiful British tanned young men and women whisked my luggage away and my Prada ad fantasy was over. Within minutes I was hard at work doing what I do best creating tasteful interiors.
This is me with my assistant at the time, aboard Tatoosh. 
Fast forwad several years, I was vacationing in the South of France on a much smaller boat when Tatoosh passed by, 
I was asleep but my friends woke me up to see her pass. I was so excited to see her. 
It was great to see the guests on board enjoying all of the sweat and tears that went into making Tatoosh what she is today.
Glorious Tatoosh...I miss her.
It was a four poster twin bamboo bed that served as a large exotic sofa during the day, and at night my bed. It was draped in mosquito netting that I purchased for 79 cents a yard.. I had begun my own little island lifestyle in Beverly Hills for mere pennies!!!
and find one style
color/type of beads you like,
such as all shell beads, 
or all types of pearls, 
or all wood beads, 
or a color, 
such as turquoise/blue beads, etc etc 
Buy a few strands (not expensive at all) and creatively put them in a tall bowl (like the one I have from Africa)
or a vintage French or Moroccan bowl...it does not have to be expensive, just simple and creative!
Voila! Instant Decor!
Sometime ago in the 1960's, my grandmother had a home on Harbour Island, in the Bahamas...known for its pink sandy beaches.
The island is small less than 2 square miles. As a child I couldn't understand how there could be ocean in front of me and ocean behind me. 
The "island" concept evaded me at the age of 5, but has since grown to a life long love affair. 
Harbor Island is home to India Hicks author of Island Beauty.
When I saw this bar cart made of bamboo, I thought of my grandmother making cocktails at sunset, and the beauty of Harbour Island. 
This wonderful cart brought back memories of deep fried conch while enjoying warm subtle breezes and the gentle sounds of the ocean.
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