Salt always wins, light is a material, and beautiful is not the same as livable. Amanda shares three lessons from 30 years of designing coastal homes, and the judgment that only comes from paying attention that long.

Choosing a luxury interior designer depends far less on portfolios than most people expect. Amanda shares what to look for instead, the questions worth asking in a first meeting, and the one signal that matters more than any photograph.

After thirty years of coastal work, Amanda shares the five furnishing mistakes she sees most often in beachfront homes, from fighting the light to fighting the view, and how to avoid every one of them.

If you already have an architect and a builder, what exactly does an interior designer do? Amanda walks through who owns what on a custom coastal home, and why the best results come when all three are at the table from the very beginning.

On a new build, the most valuable design decisions happen while the house is still on paper. Amanda shares what it really costs when the interior designer arrives after construction begins, and why the homes that come in on budget are the ones where design and construction moved together from the start.

Building a home on the water is one of the most personal things a family will ever do. It is also, in my experience, one of the easiest to get wrong, and almost always for the same reason. Most people hire an architect and a builder, watch the house take shape, and think of the interiors as the part that comes at the end. On a coastal home, that order quietly costs you the things that matter most.

7th Annual Beaches Tour of Homes to Feature Oceanfront Property Designed by Architect James Dupree with Amanda Webster Design, Inc. Jacksonville, FL – November 5,