Coastal Design Recommendations

Regardless of your proximity to the beach, you can bring the coastal outdoors inside. Incorporating soothing coastal pastel colors into your home can achieve a calming beach feel, no matter where you live. Envelope yourself in a laid back, beach-like cottage comfort by combining subtle hues. Get inspired by the ocean, the sky, and the sandy beaches of Charleston’s coastline.

Southern Beach Cottage Style

Southern-style beach cottages reflect the sun-drenched beaches of the Southern Atlantic seaboard, along with a light and cheerful southern attitude. This design style combines plenty of natural sunlight, furnishings of natural fibers and textures, touches of sea glass, natural sea elements, and coastal colors. The goal is to create a casual and breezy seaside feeling mixed with a little southern cottage comfort. The use of crisp whites and natural tones such as soft honey or dark mahogany set the mood & showcase coastal colors.

Coastal Color Palettes

Incorporating coastal pastel colors in your home decor will transform your living space into a relaxing coastal environment with ocean blues, sunset pinks, dusky purples, and sunshiny yellows. This helps to provide a soothing, coastal environment where you’re always reminded of leisurely times spent on the beach. To make these subtle hues pop, you can utilize neutral colors as a backdrop. Imagine a southern beach cottage with colors like driftwood gray or steel gray and deep navy to represent storm clouds and turbulent seas. Then, accent with turquoise, sky blue, bougainvillea pink, and seafoam green!

Let the Light Shine In

Another way to enhance the colors of the seaside is to allow as much natural sunlight as possible to flow in. Furthermore, when aspiring for a coastal feel in your home, it’s best for the main source of illumination to come from natural light. For a true beach, cottage comfort feel, keep window treatments casual by using transparent or simply-patterned natural fabrics such as cotton, linen, or muslin.

Accessorize with Seaside Treasures

Accessorizing with treasures found at the seaside is a perfect way to showcase your family’s memories. Add shells, stones, and sea glass that you’ve found at the beach to use as decor pieces. Then, look for nautical or coastal inspired prints with coastal pastel colors for furniture and throw pillows, dishes, glassware, and artwork. You can also bring in natural structure and texture from the coast with dried grasses, driftwood, and reef elements.

Having coastal pastel colors in your beach cottage is a way to surround yourself in the relaxing essence of the sea. From rustic and casual to polished and sophisticated, you can design your own personal beach-like paradise anywhere. Our team at Coralberry Cottage would love to add some coastal pastel colors to your design with pieces from our coastal furniture and accessories collection.