Emerald Bay

A private beach cabana in sun-bleached yellow, terrazzo, and tile — designed for long afternoons.

Location: Laguna Beach, California
Scope: Beach cabana, terrace, and outdoor living

Terrace lounge with cream chaises and a yellow tiled bar

Fig. 01 — Emerald Bay, Laguna Beach, California

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A cabana set into the hillside where the sand meets the bluff, conceived as a single outdoor room that runs from the terrace to the water's edge.

Color does the structural work: chrome-yellow tile on the bar and dining table, deep blue in the outdoor shower, terrazzo and rattan holding the middle ground. Materials were chosen to take salt air and improve with it.

The interior stays deliberately relaxed — a sea-green banquette, a vintage refrigerator, a surfboard overhead — so the space reads as a place to arrive wet and stay all day.

The project

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Private beach cabana set into the hillside above the sand

Cabana and umbrella seating looking back toward the beach

Sun loungers and surfboards outside the open cabana doors

Outdoor shower clad in deep blue tile with checkered border

Long dining table in yellow tile beneath a fringed umbrella

Table setting detail with citrus, glassware, and woven linens

Terrazzo bar counter with drinks tray and gold curtain backdrop

Ocean terrace with rattan chairs and a sailboat on the horizon

Cabana interior with sea-green banquette and vintage refrigerator

Yellow surfboard mounted above a built-in seating nook

Cabana doors thrown open to the terracotta terrace

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