35 San Roy Rd, Santa Rosa Beach, FL 32459

Few streets in Seagrove hold their ground the way San Roy Road does. Set one lot off the beach, the home sits close enough to the gulf to the south to draw its light and breeze, while Eastern Lake, one of the region's rare coastal dune lakes, curves in from the north, so the water frames the property from two directions and the horizon never fully closes. Over the past several years, this street has drawn some of the area's most considered new construction; this three-story residence stands among the finest of them. Set behind a palm-lined paver drive, the home reads as clean coastal contemporary: crisp clapboard, a standing-seam metal roof and stacked verandas that step toward the water. The interiors are the real event. They are knockout high-end without ever tipping into excess, exceptionally tasteful and precisely judged, nothing overdone and nothing left wanting. Spanning more than 5,200 square feet, the home offers six bedrooms, five full baths and two half baths, with pecky cypress running as a quiet through-line, worked into cabinetry and ceiling detail on nearly every level, its texture warming rooms that are otherwise bright, white and unhurried. Because the gulf-front lots directly ahead are already built, the water views from inside are effectively permanent, the kind of forever views no future construction can take away.nnThe heart of the home is the second-level kitchen, a massively scaled space built for real cooking and real gathering, anchored by a waterfall-