The Sea Captain's Cottage: A 1760s Vacation Rental in a Moody Palette

Photography by Erin McGinn courtesy of Moore House Design

Join us for a look at Coaster’s Chance, a 1760s captain’s cottage on the coast of Maine, north of Acadia. The house is the newest project of Rhode Island-based Moore House Design—and their first Downeast. Available to rent, the interiors have been redone in moody hues befitting the palette of pine, rocks, and seaweed outside the front door.

The cottage, called Coaster’s Chance, sits on the end of a private road on Cutler Harbor and has been in the Moore family for 30 years.

The newly redone kitchen has original beams and a wood stove.

The cabinets are painted in a muted hue, Sherwin Williams’ Bosc Pear.

Two Maine classics: painted wood floors and a braided rug.

Some of the old wallpaper was painstakingly exposed in the living room.

The main bedroom suite is housed in a transformed hay loft.

Antique wood blocks (once used for making wallpaper) hang on the wall.

Once the home’s main bedroom, the Captain’s Suite is named for the sea captain who built the property.

The ensuite, with beach finds on the shelves.

The Wheelhouse Loft got an all-over coat of white paint to make it feel more open.

To add a little visual depth we painted the headboards fun colors that paid homage to some of the paint colors original to the cottage,” the team writes.