KITCHEN
This may be the family’s part-time home (they live in Atlanta), but Vern went all in on storage, taking the cabinets—from Omega Cabinetry, with polished chrome pulls by Emtek—up to the 12-foot ceiling. “Part of feeling like I’m on vacation is not having clutter,” he says. The Cambria quartz island is both dining table and food prep station. The blown-glass lights above it, by Donghia, are a nod to a trip to Venice, Italy. Another travel memory: the carousel animal, a Paris flea market find.
Vern Yip has had a love affair with Rosemary Beach, FL, since the ’90s, when he first visited the town and fell for its walkable, bike-friendly layout. In 2014, he and husband Craig Koch built a dream home there. But just two years later,…
