You can actually do a lot to create your coastal home with different creativity and ideas. If you are lack on ideas, there are always a lot of inspiration and idea online that you can search for.
There are more than what you can imagine when comes to beach themed. From accents, artwork styles, paint colors and many more, you can actually look for what you like and mix and match it in your coastal home. It will not only transform your home to become your dream home, but It also will create relaxing atmosphere around coastal regions that you wish to bring it indoor to your lovely coastal home.
Consider Your Colors
If you are looking to decorating your beach home, You can consider focus the design style that focus on comfortable colors and with plenty of natural colors in the house,
The color scheme in your coastal home should not be too bright and usually most designer prefer to use colors like light blue, blue, navy, white, green and yellow. These color palette showcase the feels and the atmosphere of coastal that you love and is exact opposite of showy and gaudy. Which is perfect for coastal related theme. And this beautiful coastal interior colors can really go long way as long as you love coastal theme.
We had provide some sample that you can refer to below. The kitchen below has white theme with brown and teal back splash, it has modern-rustic feels with works perfectly in the kitchen.
Beach Style Kitchen by
Montgomery Architects & Building Designers
Ashley Gilbreath Interior Design
4 Ways to Create Coastal Comfort
- Coastal Furniture
First thing first, You can start with furniture. Comfortable furniture and coastal related rugs that match the primary colors of your home. Many homes like to choose plain or little pattern white themed couches. Because white is easy to match with various color access and able to maintain a bright looking interior.
Now, let’s take a look on cabinets. Cabinet is quite important as it usually take up some amount of space in your home. Most popular material is distressed wood where you can easily find it or DIY yourself. And they are quite durable and with the wood natural colors, it can be really match with your entire décor.
Usually we don’t recommend having leather in the beach home and is it not very popular. But having a leather chair or recliner is different story as it can have a nice contrast color with your couches. At the end, the most important thing when you buying furniture is the comfortability, durable and it match the entire theme of your coastal home.
- Windows
Second, your coastal home are recommended to have large and clan windows that able to provide plenty of natural light. If you live near by or along the coast, you will definitely want to see the beautiful sunrise and sunsets everyday.
One thing to remember is not too use dark curtain or dark blinds as it will block the natural sunlight to your home. Try to use lighter curtain or blind that practically allow the light in. In addition, it will be more suitable and easy to match with the rest of the furniture color.
- Kitchen
Third, kitchen is another area that we need to focus. White cabinet is generally more popular in beach home. If your home has enough natural light, white color will definitely brighten up your entire kitchen. It makes your kitchen looks extra pop and beautiful. You can also try to look for a back-splash that able to highlight other colors.
The sample kitchen above has a nice back-splash that goes very well with white colors. Not only that, it also provides a great rustic feel with white distressed wood. overall I love the entire design and I am sure you will love it too.
- Accents and Artwork
Lastly, It is highly recommended that you use nautical-themed accents and artwork like shells, rugs, lamps, candle or any related accents and artwork throughout the house. It can really help to boost up the coastal feel right away. A sample image above that uses large wood surfboard as beautiful accent. Isn’t it a small accents or artwork make a huge difference?
In Summary
In fact, decorating and designing your coastal home can be fun task. Not only it give a chance to you to show your creativity and capability. It also gives your satisfaction to have such a wonderful home. The key takeaway is to create a comfortable, relaxing, and enjoyable atmosphere that you always wanted to have.
If you do have any more ideas or tips on how to create a great coastal home. Do let us know so that your ideas and tips are share with our website visitors.