Community Connections

There are few well-kept secrets in Charleston anymore, but John De Zinna and his son, Anthony De Zinna, and their company, Coastal Cottages of South Carolina, might be one of them. Coastal Cottages is a family-owned custom homebuilder that is intentionally small so that it can be exceptionally nimble for custom homes. This is the […]
Coastal Comeback

With oceanfront property scarce on Kiawah Island, buyers can’t be choosers. In 2019, a near-retirement couple from the North bought a dark, dreary, 7,845-square-foot Mediterranean-style home on a prime piece of oceanfront land. While the location was exactly what they had been dreaming of, the home’s aesthetic was another matter entirely. “Oceanfront property on Kiawah […]
Tree house by the Sea

When a couple from Washington, D.C., decided to build a second home on the coast, they chose the Ocean Park community on the eastern tip of Kiawah Island as the ideal location. The community is known for its picturesque native greenery and grand trees that layer in with the marsh, ocean and river. “We appreciate […]