A California Retreat Has Walls Made Out of the Beach

There’s nowhere quite like Carmel-by-the-Sea on California’s Monterey Peninsula, with its wind-swept cypress trees and grassy dunes. The White Sands residence, built paces from the water, embraces it fully. But you don’t have to look outside to experience the area’s signature quartz-rich, milky-toned beaches for which the house is named.