Last week, some members of Motor Man’s family rented a little beach house in Corolla on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. Okay, maybe “little” isn’t exactly the right word.
8 bedrooms, 9 1/2 baths, three floors, a pool, a home theater, a game room and bar. Oh, and an elevator.
Motor Man and I took his parents down for the day. We all had been invited to stay for a couple of days, but they were having no part of being gone from home overnight.
This was the oceanside.
The rooms were large and tastefully decorated, most of them in nautical themes. This was my favorite bedroom, but then, I’m partial to blue.
Motor Man’s sister had pre-made lunch for the most part, but I helped a little in the kitchen. Two ovens, two dishwashers, two sinks, two ranges. I was lost. Motor Man will tell you I have very little experience in a kitchen.
This is the dining area where we ate lunch. How do you describe this view of the Atlantic Ocean? Amazing, fabulous, beautiful, awesome?
Several times during the day, flocks of pelicans would fly over. I ran for my camera each time.
Before we left for home, Motor Man and I posed out on one of the decks. He was having more fun than this picture implies. I think.
As the old saying goes, it was a nice place to visit……
these days of mine 
I would have felt like a “fish out of water”…this ole country girl wouldn’t have known how to act in all that opulence! Nice place to visit….says it perfectly.
…and I would LIKE to live there! I love the Outerbanks. Thanks for sharing.
Couldn’t y’all find a big cottage ?!?!?! 🙂
how nice of you to take the folks down for the day to spend with family. i’m with you – the kitchen is NOT my favorite place to be – i’d have disappeared down the beach… 🙂
I lol’d about your comment about Motor Man! My dad’s two favorite days of any vacation are the day that he leaves for his vacay and the day he comes home! HA! Gorgeous home BTW! Move me in!
I can see this as your next purchase of a “cottage” in Nags Head. NOT!!! Beautiful place but I prefer the old homes on the beach where you don’t care if you track sand in or not. Nice of you to take his parents down. I can hear his dad saying just like my dad used to say, “I have to be home before dark to feed the chickens.”
I agree with Doris D. here on two points…
1. That house/cottage/cabin/whatever is totally beautiful and all but I love the old places best too.
2. Super neat you guys took his parents down for the day. What a special thing to do.
~dianna
p.s. that kitchen would be a blast with a buncha people in it laughing & cooking up a storm!
My Gosh!! I am in love! Don’t think they could have blown me out of there with a stick of dynamite. This dry-land prairie girl needs a beach house in her life 🙂
Wow what a house! I would love a house right on the beach…but only to rent. I get nervous enough being a couple blocks off the beach. I hope you all enjoyed it!
forget visit… I’m coming to live! That place is awesome. Reminds me of living in FL when I would babysit for the baseball players families during spring break… they rented these huge gorgeous homes on the beach and I would daydream that I was the one living there instead of just the hired help… ah… how the other half lives! If only it were me, lol.
I hope if one lives in this house, she doesn’t have to do all the cleaning alone. This next question has nothing to do with the big, beautiful house; I’m wondering about the river you live by. Are you in any danger of it flooding?
The river does flood when we have a major nor’easter or a hurricane, but our house is built well above the 100-year flood plain, so hopefully, we’ll never have to worry about the water level reaching the house. One day I’ll post pictures of Hurricane Isabel pics (scary!)
A nice place to visit for sure! But I’m with you – I couldn’t live in something so huge. I do I love that part of the country. We used to go to SC (Fripp, Seabrook) every summer.
Woah. Wait until everyone finds out thta the “cottage” is really your guest house and you live up on the hill overlooking this!
Shh, Jerry. That’s supposed to be a secret!!
Oh. My. Gosh. Stunning! A nice place to visit but I WOULD like to live there. Glad you had a nice day…too bad you couldn’t have spent the night though.
That view is simply … stunning.
Now if only I lived close enough to plop my groceries down in that kitchen and fix you up a little some-something … oh the fun we’d have!
Great picture of you 2 🙂 Cheers – MJ
Looks like you stayed at my dream house. Thank you for sharing the pictures…now I am dreaming of a vacation! Glad you and Motor Man enjoyed yourselves 😀
This looks like heaven to me. Magnificent. 🙂
I love the view from the dining table. Dinners and conversation would definitely have to linger with that setting. Sigh! That reminds me…I need to register for the HGTV dreamhouse again today.
That area has certainly changed in the last few years. It is a lovely place to visit, that’s for sure. Too bad you couldn’t stay longer; but like you didn’t say, there’s no place like home, and sleeping in one’s own bed. Great shot of the pelicans in flight!