Vern Yip, frequent interior design contributor to HGTV’s hit show Trading Spaces, listed a retreat on Florida’s Gulf Coast this season with an asking price of $4.9 million. The eccentric but fairly recent build — it dates to 2003 but is designed to conjure an idealized version of coastal Deep South living — measures in at 2,180 sq. ft.

Situated on a quiet street in the relaxed but entirely engineered lifestyle Panhandle hamlet of Rosemary Beach, the four-bedroom, five-bath house is a character-rich addition to its neighborhood. In its idyllic setting, a planned resort community conceptualized according to a romantic blueprint, it fits right in. As a neighborhood representative of its community, it was featured in a spread in House Beautiful.

The home’s interiors are at their best when they play up the eccentricity of the home’s exterior design, a nook-and-cranny asymmetry inset with oddly-but-gracefully-shaped ornamental windows and eyebrow curves set against a whimsically tweaked Caribbean Colonial foundation. The design style is a wild mix of the playfully industrial, midcentury, floral, nautical and other elements, a restless aggregate.

The property’s design includes a carriage house with a Gulf view balcony, which helps it achieve a consistent rental history; listing information indicates projected bookings for 2022 come in at $280K.