Embrace the French joie de vivre in this exuberant and immaculately styled home, just minutes from the beach. Splashes of hot pink, mustard yellow, mellow mauve, inky navy and cobalt blue pop against flawless white walls, each shade expertly offset by pine furniture and hardwood floors to add a calm, relaxing ambiance. Our favourite feature has to be the scarlet shutters – throw them open to reveal a small balcony, overlooking a Pantone-swatch street, the perfect spot for your morning coffee. If the blue hues and nautical stripes of the kitchen bring on a hankering for the ocean, the Grande Plage is less than ten minutes by foot, so you can spend joyous afternoons crashing into the waves. And when you’ve worked up an appetite, the unmissable restaurants of Saint Jean-de-Luz will set you right.

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