Smell the sea air!

This light-filled bedroom perched on a bluff.

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Razor Bluff by Wallace E. Cunningham in La Jolla, California is a 10,000-square-foot home with four bedrooms, six bathrooms, a two-level guest house and an infinity pool.

This TV room with a floating fireplace.

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This cliff-side lounge on a remote island in British Columbia.

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In Patkau Architects’ Trula House on Quadra Island.

This sitting room with more sliding doors than you can handle.

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This cozy den with a retractable window wall.

cozy den ocean viewPhoto: Rolf Ockert Design

In Sydney, Australia’s Bronte House by Rolf Ockert Design.

This open-concept living area in a wooden home.

ocean view open-conceptPhotos: Crosson Clarke Carnachan Architects

Located on New Zealand’s Coromandel Peninsula, the home combines the popular shipping container conversion trend with the local building tradition of crafting wood.

This minimalist bedroom.

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Located on the Peruvian coast, Veronica Beach House was designed by Longhi Architects.

And this minimalist bathroom.

ocean view bathroomPhoto: Gavin Maddock Design

Part of the Pearl Bay Residence by Gavin Maddock Design in Cape Town, South Africa.

And this one.

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Here too.

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Found in Miami’s 5,600-square-foot, two-story Jade Ocean penthouse.

This circular seating room on Australia’s Kangaroo Island.

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The secluded Southern Ocean Lodge overlooks a rugged stretch of coast.

This luxurious lounge.

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Part of a penthouse overlooking Port Jackson in Sydney, Australia. You can buy it for $10.75 million.

This breezy bedroom with only three walls.

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This glass dining room.

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And this one too.

dining room ocean viewsPhotos: Fougeron Architecture

Perched on a cliff in Big Sur, California, Fougeron Architecture’s Fall House is all views.

This exposed loft.

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It’s all about the view in St. Lucia’s Ladera Resort penthouse hotel room.

This open-air kitchen in Dana Point, California.

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Or this kitchen with massive windows in West Vancouver.

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This waterfront home recently has seven fireplaces. Seven!

This indoor-outdoor pool.

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This breathtaking patio.

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This shoreline living room in Nova Scotia.

nova scotia ocean view roomPhoto: MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects

Part of Nova Scotia’s Sunset Rock House by MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects.

This posh parlor.

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Nettleton 198 by SOATO is a six-bedroom, seven-level house in Cape Town, South Africa.

This rustic attic.

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Overlooking Massachusetts’ Gloucester harbor, the attic is part of the Sleeper-McCann House.

This brilliant reading nook.

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And this bedroom that’s all window.

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Perched on top of a ridge in Laguna Beach, California, the Rockledge residence was commissioned by its owner as a “relaxed family beach house.”

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