A life, in shells

Selling the family home often brings angst and perhaps some guilt, but it must be so much harder when the house is a 300-year-old cottage decorated by your grandfather using tens of thousands of seashells.

Kevin L. Ffrench was a sailor who spent countless hours of his life using shells to express his love of the sea through images of birds, a lighthouse, and even a pirate ship. Fortunately, his granddaughter has chosen to live in the house, aptly named Shell Cottage in Cullenstown, Ireland.