Is your beach house looking dated? Or maybe you are planning to buy one, and you would like to remodel it? Whatever your beach house decorating needs are, here are seven beach house decorating ideas that are as fresh as a summer breeze.
A beach house can be a delight to own and live in. They make great second homes and investment properties for the family to enjoy and rent out weekly during high season. However, creative beach house decorating ideas can be hard to think up.
Luckily, our experience in local real estate has exposed us to some of the most creative and amazing decorating ideas you could imagine. With that in mind, I have put together this article sharing some of the best beach house decorating ideas we have come across. They are as follows.
Simple Layouts Are Best
You will find that layouts in modern coastal homes are the key difference to the traditional styles you may have seen in the past. Old fashioned coastal homes focused on heavily filled floor plans. Instead, enjoying a more minimalist room setting with the same style layouts can seem different to more traditional designs.
To mix up this minimalist style, you should focus on the room’s function being the highlight. For a dining room, that means making the dining table the feature. For a living room make the sofa the highlight. For an outside area, your firepit should be your focal point. Make sure to focus on leaving negative space around it so your guests can move comfortably around the room.
Bear in mind that when incorporating these design changes, the furniture you use will be especially important. With fewer accessories cluttering up your room, if your furniture does not stand out, it may leave you with a drab and lifeless feel to the room. Instead, choose furniture which is in tune with the style choices of your coastal home. You want them to be able to stand out on their own and be the real focus of the room.
Upcycle Old Furniture
One of the greatest gifts that humanity gave to home decor in recent years was the upcycling of old furniture. Homeowners can hit the local thrift shop and find some of the most old-fashioned, outdated pieces of furniture and completely change the look of it.
From painting wood to changing handles to turning iron chains into a coffee table design, upcycling old furniture and objects can give your home a creative touch. If you lack creativity, you can find some incredible upcycled furniture on Etsy. There are also a lot of companies who will design and make furniture to specification if you have a creative idea.
Sailor Style
You will find that a lot of coastal homes will feature faded furniture in its design choices. This is a key element to creating that sailor styled home. Sun-bleached surfaces tie in nicely with the well-worn feel of the coast. A bedroom is a perfect place to incorporate this look.
Use light fabrics with nautical inspired styles to spice up your bedding. You can even mix up your pillow choices which adds a more interesting style choice while still feeling relaxed. Soothing wall art can be a welcome addition to your space especially with soothing watercolor paintings of nautically inspired scenery.
Copper Ahoy
Copper is one of the best elements to use to spice up your beach house decorating. You can use this charming metal in decorative ornaments, hanging lights and even in a charming bathtub. You can imagine a deep copper bathtub in a ship captain’s quarter, and that is what gives such a fine addition to your bathroom its charm.
An old-fashioned tub can give your bathroom an almost regal feel and will certainly impress any guests who want a dip in the tub. You can pair a copper tubs styling with accent features like hanging baskets for toiletries in shiny copper. You can also pair the bright orange of the copper with some light blue hues and cool pale colors throughout the rest of the bathroom.
Mix Up Modern and Traditional
Your finishing touches to your beach house interior should be the accessories. Modern-day beach house decorating ideas will stick to just a few accent pieces that you would find in a typical beach house. There is nothing wrong with mixing things up though and incorporating a few modern elements like trendy statement pieces of furniture or lighting. This mixture of modern and traditional can give your home a quirky twist.
Make sure to keep the focus on the beach. You can use traditional features like beach signs or driftwood and modern pieces working in contrast like chevron pattern pillows or wallpaper and even fancy lighting fixtures.
Coastal Cladding
Something is charming about the faded wood finish that you find in many coastal home designs. Your kitchen is the perfect place to incorporate this style. From shabby chic dining tables, to end of room hutches on a chest of drawers, you can create an amazing white wood design. These are perfect for a beach home and design.
One of our favorite design ideas we have seen is using the coastal faded wood design but as a wooden wall cladding. White-washed cladding helps to give your kitchen an instant beach-hut style feel. You can even paint your cabinets in a contrasting dark, chalky grey tone to give them a look that is fantastically chic. Country details work well with this setup like an old-fashioned plate rack, hanging mugs, and even a white range cooker.
Soothing Color Options
One of the biggest things we hear about coastal designs and beach houses, is they make people feel relaxed. It is something about the fact your thousands away or just a few feet away from the waves. Stepping into a beach home should make you feel like your stepping into a vacation. You can help yourself to achieve this goal by using some little color psychology tricks.
You always want to start with a neutral base of colors. Do not use monochromatic color tones for a harsh contrast, instead focus on muted tones. Off-whites, sandy colors, and softer greys can create an environment that feels both inviting and soothing.
You will often see suggestions of bold colors in contrast to soft muted tones, but in a beach home, it’s sometimes nice even to keep your accent colors muted. Pastel hues can be a nice focus, especially with colors like coral having such a beachy influence.
What Beach House Idea Fits Your Home?
With such a wide array of amazing and beautiful beach house decorating ideas, you might want to incorporate every option in the list. Remember though that less is often more. Pick a design tip that suits your style choices and enjoy modernizing your beach house with some classic coastal mementoes and modern design choices.
If you are considering purchasing a beach house for you and your family, get in touch today.