Every year about this time I get very jealous.  I see pictures of beach houses posted on facebook and I begin to drool.  I want a beach house, too!  I want to live steps from the ocean and have breakfast on a porch while listening to crashing waves.  And when that day comes, I will also have Ballard Design's Wood Step Basket on the stairs leading to the second floor in which I will throw swimsuits, flip flops, beach reads.  One day...
 
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