Can't afford a beach vacation this year? Don't worry. With easy breezy beach style decorating you can get all the ambiance of a day at the beach without setting foot outside the house. And the best news of all? It's an easy and versatile style that can be modified to suit any style of home.
A sandy color palette with touches of blue is perfectly reminiscent of the sea and surf in this home by Butler Armsden Architects. To make the most of this type of palette try to stick with an open layout and limit the use of furniture and accessories. The idea here is to create an open, airy atmosphere, similar to what's happening just outside.
A basic beach house living room is easy to achieve if you use the right combination of color and materials as designer Sabrina Alfin did here. Soft blue paint, sand, and stone colored fabrics and driftwood accents combine seamlessly to make an afternoon in this living room feel like a day at the beach.
One of the best ways to get a beachy or coastal look is with shiplap, as seen here in this living room courtesy of Indian River Furniture. While some liken it more with farmhouse style, it's been historically more associated with nautical or "Cape Cod" style. The wide, horizontal planks evoke a sense of casual simplicity, and isn't that what beach style is all about?
To make the connection from the outdoors to the indoors virtually seamless, consider a largely white color scheme with slim, streamlined furniture, like this beach house from Lissett Homes. In this beach house living room, there's a sense of openness thanks to the large window and minimalist interior. Pops of sea blue help to maintain the beachy personality amidst all the white.
Sometimes beach style is more about the feeling created than it is about the color palette. While the accent color in this beach style living room from Donna Elle is green rather than blue, it still has that easy breezy relaxed beach style thanks in part to the sandy off-white backdrop, scalloped edge furniture, coastal artwork, and shell details.
Originally writen by thespruce and most pictures collected from pinterest
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