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"Oasis of Simplicity\nUtilizing Native Materials, a Whitewashed House on the Arabian Sea Summons Exotic Tales\n\"My aim was to create something graceful and tranquil that blended with the natural beauty surrounding it,\" interior architect Samiya Al-Harthy Sheridan says of the retreat she built on a lagoon in Yiti, Oman, which she shares with her husband, Paul Sheridan. The central corridor. An antique light fixture from Istanbul hangs from the ceiling.\nA crenellated wall surrounds the rear terrace. \"Omani houses have boundary walls. I made ours low enough to see the view,\" she notes.\nIn the living room, benches and chairs Al-Harthy Sheridan designed are grouped around an overscale low table topped with books, artifacts and Iznik ceramics. The narrow, pointed-arch windows are typical of Omani architecture and help cool the space. The designer wanted an eclectic interior and culled inspiration from around the world. A Swedish motif, which she embroidered herself, adorns a settee pillow.\nThe dining room.\nThe master bedroom's custom four-poster \"is of a height to allow a panoramic view: white sand and sea on one side, mountain and lagoon on the other,\" she points out. A traditional Omani weaving is on the bed, and the rugs are Bedouin shamlas, woven of camel hair.\nThe balcony off the master bedroom overlooks the lagoon, where flamingos, Egyptian eagles and herons come to feed, and the Gulf of Oman beyond. Pillows made by nomads from Jabal Al-Shams are on the Zanzibarian daybed. The plantation chair is Indian.\nThe master bath. Bahla pots, popular throughout the sultanate, rest in the windows."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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