Costa Del Mar | Beach Access~Pool Table~Central EI

A professionally designed one-story Emerald Isle home built around deep blues and coastal calm — pool table, private beach access with key fob, living room murals, fully stocked kitchen, and a layout with no stairs anywhere in the house. Three bedrooms, two baths, sleeps 8. The design-forward, accessibility-first beach house for families and groups who want Emerald Isle done with intention.

⭐ AT A GLANCE ⭐

🎨 Professionally designed interior — deep blues, coastal calm, and living room murals that make this feel like a destination rather than a rental

🎱 3-in-1 game table plus a shuffleboard table— pool table, ping pong, and dining table in one — entertainment and meals handled

📶 Brightspeed fiber internet — 1GB upload and download, the fastest connection in the portfolio

🏖️ Private beach access — key fob, community lot, reserved for your group

🌊 One-story layout — no stairs anywhere, genuinely accessible for every age and mobility level

🍳 Fully stocked kitchen — everything in place before you arrive

🛌 Sleeps 8 — three bedrooms, two full bathrooms, flexible configuration

📺 Smart TVs throughout — streaming ready in every room

🧺 In-unit washer and dryer — pack lighter, stay longer

🚿 Outdoor shower — rinse off before you bring the sand inside

🔥 Charcoal grill + picnic table — cookouts and al fresco dining handled

🛁 Rain shower master en-suite — tiled walk-in with rain head and separate wand

🐾 Pet friendly — inquire at booking for current fee

💻Remote work friendly — Brightspeed fiber at 1GB makes remote work genuinely seamless

🚗 Free on-site parking

Welcome to Costa Del Mar — Where the Design Does the Talking.

There are two kinds of vacation rental interiors. The first kind is assembled — furniture ordered from a catalogue, a few coastal prints on the walls, and the quiet sense that everything in the room was chosen to be inoffensive rather than interesting. The second kind is designed — every color deliberate, every piece chosen for the space it occupies, and the feeling when you walk in that someone who genuinely cared about this room made every decision in it.

Costa Del Mar is the second kind. Professionally designed from the ground up in deep blues and coastal calm, with murals in the living room that give the space a personality that no amount of furniture arrangement alone could achieve, Costa Del Mar is the Emerald Isle vacation rental that earns the word beautiful before you've put your bags down. This is not a property that photographs well and delivers something ordinary. What you see in the listing is what you walk into — and what you walk into is better.

The layout is a one-story floor plan — three bedrooms, two bathrooms, sleeps 8, and not a single stair anywhere in the house. The pool table anchors the indoor entertainment. The private beach access with key fob handles the outdoor logistics. The fully stocked kitchen handles every meal the group wants to make at home. Every detail of this house — from the palette on the walls to the gear waiting for the first beach day — was considered before you arrived. That is what a professionally designed vacation rental feels like in practice, and it is what Costa Del Mar delivers from the moment you open the door.

🎨 The Design — Professional, Intentional, Blue

Professional design changes the experience of a vacation rental in ways that are immediately felt but sometimes hard to articulate. It is the difference between a space that is functional and a space that is genuinely inhabitable — one you use, one you actually live in for the duration of the trip. Every guest who has stayed in a professionally designed vacation rental and then returned to a standard one understands the difference the moment they walk in the door.

At Costa Del Mar, that difference starts with the blues. The palette runs through the space in a way that feels layered and deliberate — not a single shade painted on every wall, but a considered range of coastal tones that shift with the light throughout the day. In the morning it reads calm. In the afternoon it reads cool. In the evening with the lights on it reads exactly like the kind of place you want to be at the end of a beach day.

The living room murals are the detail that stops guests at the door. They give the room a sense of place and permanence that no print, no canvas, and no wallpaper accent wall achieves — the kind of interior decision that communicates that the people who built this space were not going for adequate. They were going for something worth coming back to.

🎱 The 3-in-1 Game Table — Pool, Ping Pong, and Dinner in One

Most vacation rentals make you choose between a game room and a dining room. Costa Del Mar skips that negotiation entirely. The 3-in-1 game table converts between a full pool table, a ping pong table, and a dining room table — three pieces of furniture that usually compete for space occupying one footprint, each one available whenever the group decides it's time to switch.

The practical implications are real. The pool table handles the competitive evenings. The ping pong handles the afternoons when someone needs to move and the beach isn't calling. The dining table handles every meal the group wants to eat at home. And because it's one piece in one location, the transition between them takes minutes rather than a rearrangement.

For groups with kids this is the feature that earns the most consistent praise — a ping pong table that converts from a pool table that converts from a dining table is the kind of setup that makes children significantly less interested in screens. For adults who enjoy a game but weren't necessarily planning their trip around one, the accessibility of having all three options available without any prior planning is exactly right.

🏖️ The Beach — Private Access, Key Fob, No Logistics

The private beach access at Costa Del Mar comes with a key fob — included with your stay, waiting inside the house on arrival. The community lot is reserved for residents and guests. There is no circling for parking, no public access congestion, and no strangers streaming through the same access point to get to the sand.

For a group of eight, this matters more than it sounds on paper. The morning beach run — chairs, cooler, towels, sunscreen, eight people — is already a coordination exercise. Knowing the parking is handled and the access is private removes the one variable that tends to derail it. The beach itself is Emerald Isle's Atlantic shoreline, which needs no further endorsement. The access is what earns the callout.

🔥 The Outdoor Spaces — Grill, Picnic Table, and a Shower That Earns It

The outdoor spaces at Costa Del Mar handle the two things every beach group eventually wants: a cookout and a clean way back into the house.

The charcoal grill and picnic table sit on-site and ready — no tracking down a communal grill, no waiting, no charcoal run required on arrival because the setup is already there. The picnic table keeps the cookout social rather than just functional — everyone outside, dinner on the table, the kind of easy evening that doesn't require planning.

The outdoor shower handles the return from the beach before anyone tracks sand through the living room. For a group of eight coming in from a full beach day all at once, having an outdoor rinse station changes the entire transition — shoes off, rinse down, walk into the house clean. It is the kind of detail that sounds minor until you've stayed at a beach house without one.

🌊 One-Story Layout — Accessibility Built Into the Foundation

Costa Del Mar is entirely one story. There are no stairs anywhere in the house — not to the bedrooms, not to the bathrooms, not to the outdoor spaces. Every guest, regardless of age or mobility, moves through this house on the same level without planning around a staircase.
This is not a minor detail for the audiences Costa Del Mar serves. For multigenerational groups where grandparents are traveling alongside young grandchildren, a one-story layout is the difference between a house that works for everyone and one that works for most people with some friction. For groups with guests who have mobility limitations, it removes a consideration entirely. For families with toddlers, it eliminates the staircase supervision requirement that adds background stress to every hour of every day.

The one-story layout is a structural decision that was made before the professional design began, and it is the reason Costa Del Mar can genuinely claim to be accessible in the truest sense of the word — not accessible with accommodations, but simply and completely accessible as designed.

🛌 Three Bedrooms — Comfortable, Flexible, Ready

Three bedrooms, two bathrooms, sleeps 8 — all on a single level. The bedroom configuration at Costa Del Mar handles the typical group structures naturally: two couples and a family of four, three families splitting rooms, a group of friends who each want their own space to retreat to at the end of the day. The Smart TV in every bedroom means no negotiating over the living room screen. The in-unit washer and dryer rounds out the practical case for a longer stay. Brightspeed fiber internet at 1GB upload and download — the fastest connection in the portfolio — means remote work, streaming, and video calls all happen without the bandwidth negotiations that plague most beach house WiFi connections.

Every bedroom is stocked and ready before you arrive — linens, towels, and all the essentials per Haylee's portfolio standard. The kitchen is fully stocked with cookware, dinnerware, and all the basics. The house is ready when you pull into the driveway. That is the standard Costa Del Mar is built to and the standard Haylee's team maintains across every stay.

🛁 The Primary En-Suite — The Bathroom That Changes the Morning

The primary en-suite at Costa Del Mar is the bathroom that turns a morning routine into something worth waking up for. The large tiled walk-in shower has both a rain shower head and a separate handheld wand — the combination that lets you choose between immersive and precise depending on what the morning calls for. The glass enclosure and the tile work reflect the same professional design sensibility that runs through the rest of the house.
After a day in the Emerald Isle sun and salt air, the rain shower is exactly what the evening should end with. For the couple or adults who claim the primary suite, this bathroom is a genuine luxury at a price point where most comparable properties offer a standard tub-shower combo and nothing more.

🍳 The Kitchen — Stocked, Practical, Ready for the Group

The kitchen at Costa Del Mar is fully stocked — all cookware, all dinnerware, and every essential in place before you arrive. The dining area handles the full group for the meals worth sitting down for. The layout keeps the kitchen connected to the main living space so whoever is cooking stays in the conversation rather than disappearing into a separate room.

The in-unit washer and dryer rounds out the practical case for a longer stay. Pack for four or five days, do a load mid-week, and arrive home without a laundry situation waiting. For beach weeks where towels and swimsuits cycle daily, this is the detail that makes the whole trip feel more organized than it has any right to be.