DIY Coastal Home Accessories

Coastal home decor is as popular as ever, with more and more people incorporating the beach style into their home.

Many happy memories are made on the coast... with most people holidaying on the beach or day trips to the coast, this theme of home decor will keep the memoires alive!

We have come up with a few ideas for DIY coastal accessories that will perfectly suit with your beach style home furniture. 

1. Make a memory jar... On our recent trip to Clearwater in Florida while the boys were away jet skiing the girls and I sat in the waves collecting little shells. We gathered them together, dried them off and put them is a simple glass jars. 

2. Collect small driftwood pieces you find on your travels and set them casually around, grouped together with candles, jars or other home decor accessories. From a more local beach I lifted this small piece from below the sand dunes, I like the natural shape and it complements my lamp table perfectly. Driftwood is perfect colour and finish for coastal furniture

3. A photograph from a family holiday. Choose an old frame and sand it down really well to give it a weathered look typical of the coast.. 

4. A piece of rope curled... set on its own or under books, candles or home decor piecec, adds interest and height as well as a little texture to the room.

Article by Leah Matthews

Interior Designer at The White Lighthouse

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How to Decorate an Elegant Beach Coastal Bedroom

The casual carefree coastal style is just perfect for a bedroom with the relaxed feel for a place to unwind after a stressful day to ensure a peaceful nights sleep.

The beach coastal design in a bedroom can vary massively. We want to help you create an elegant bedroom, while there are no hard and fast rules for decorating a bedroom in coastal theme, it can quickly become quite tacky! We want to help you have the classy bedroom you deserve and enjoy retreating to at the end of the day.

Tips and Ideas...

1. Decorate using the colours of the coast, mainly varying shades of grey, blues, whites and creams.

Get the look... White butler tray bedside table £36, Kingston white baskets £27, New Hampton Cushion £39, Artificial Greenery £6

2. Slightly distressed furniture works best for coastal interiors, to resemble weathern worn wood beaten by the endless waves.

Get the look... Our Shoreham Bedside table £45, Dorchester balnket ladder £38, cushions and coastal decorative items

3. Include natural materials such as bamboo, rattan, seagrass for furniture and accessories. Wood and rattan create an immediate coastal feel... our Casco Bay stool or side table is a perfect example.

Get the look... Casco Bay stool £58, cushions and coastal decorative items

4. Choose pale or light pieces of furniture... white furniture is absoultely perfect in a coastal inspired bedroom

Get the look... Maine white storage chest of drawers from £52

5. Mix and match furniture items, no pristine look here!

6. You want imperfection... informal styling and beautiful rustic natural finishes... Our driftwood table gives the informal relaxed style while still looking fabulous

Get the look... Driftwood bedside table £79, Kingston baskets £27, white lamp £38 and various cushions

8. Plantation shutters are a great way to give an instant coastal look for bedroom windows while giving instant elegancy

9. Large wall decor pieces made from natural materials are a creative way to fill a wall. The chunky wall twig heart £48 is large and rustic

20 Ideas and tips on how to decorate your home in coastal style

20 Ideas and tips on how to decorate your home in coastal style

If you are one of many lucky enough to live by the coast or close to a beach wou will want to bring this style into your homedecor.

The typical look of coastal hallway furniture is white, grey, white washed or weathered. Driftwood coloured and natural products are great materiral to use and create the relaxed coastal charm.

1. Using the traditional colours of the coast - blues, greys and shades of white in your interior design and furniture choice, you can easily create this dreamy, caming interior style of home

2. White furniture in a coastal home creates a bright and airy feeling. With beach homes generally being on the smaller side as everbody want to live here, white furniture gives the illusion of a bigger space

3, Use natural materials as wall decor. This natural heart is easy to hang and very affordable, each piece being different due to the uniqueness of hand made pieces

4. Mix weathered furniture with white and grey lamp tables add a contrasting or similarily coloured table lamp to brighten a corner. 

5. Use pieces of furniture made from natural products. A table made from sun bleached willow is just a perfect example

6. Have a large coffee table with storage to give a luxuirious feeling of space and give you a space to keep the room tidy. This is a great example as it is also made form natural products

7. Arrange coastal accessories casually to relax the style and blend seemlessly into your home.

7. Add driftwood effect pieces of furniture with aged looking wood. What more reminds you of the beach as collecting pieces of wood washed up on the shore!

8. ... and also driftwood home decor accessories. Have these scattered throughout the home for a subtle nautical look

9. A nautical themed mirror will keep to the coastal decor style as well as reflect light to ensure the room is filled with natural light 

10. Create a comfortable area for your to sit with a relaxing book and cup of coffee after a brisk walk on the shores 

11. Use rustic greyed washed wood hooks and hangers to keep towels, and coats from the floor 

12. Use lidded baskets to keep toys and general clutter tidy. A great place to store shoes

13. White wall panels give the traditional beach hut look and are an easy option in decorating, instantly transporting you to the rustic Maine coasts

14. White Window Shutters give plently of privacy and are a beautiful window covering that will remain stylish for many years to come

15. Greys and white on the wall are perfect for decorating the wall in a beach home.

16. Our favourite! A Lighthouse is a must for a home by the sea

17. Sun bleached white furniture with naturally made home baskets give such a bright coastal look

18. White and navy together is such a gorgeous and striking combination in a nautical styled home

19. Table lamps are a must to ensure the room is kept bright even on the duller days

20. Add artificial greenery such as Eucalyptus, it complements the white interior so well and lives forever!

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Top 5 Tips for Coastal Home Decor

1. Keep the home bright and airy with light furniture in colours of the coast - greys, white and and natural finishes are most definitely the favourites. 

2. Ensure the home is kept tidy and clutter free with plenty of storage furniture

3. Add some subtle coastal accessories such as driftwood, boats birds and shells. Beach combing is a great and fun way to gather together pieces of the coast. Keep it subtle - do not go overboard on the beach or coastal theme, this will appear tacky. Subtle pieces like signs or small beach themed accessories such as a small yacht, pieces of rope, or coastal home style lantern will be enough

4. Don't overcrowd the coastal home, if you are tight of space used smaller furniture pieces with lots of extra storage.

5. Brighten up darker corners with a table lamp. Allow Plenty of Light into your room - Adding white furniture to your room will instantly increase the amount of light reflected through the room creating an illusion of a great and airy space

See all Coastal Furniture from The White Lighthouse

Other articles on Decorating in a Coastal Interior Design

Coastal and Beach Hallway Furniture
Ideas for decorating hallways in Coastal and Beach Homes ... 

New England Hallway Furniture
Ideas on decorating your hall in typical New England style

Style Your Console Table
Ideas on how to style your console table

Top 5 Tips for Coastal Home Decor
Tips on how to decorate your home in coastal style

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Such a cute little bedside table...

A really pretty idea for a bedside table, our Provence shelf unit would suit any colour and style of bedroom. At only £35 each, the offer a very affordable option.

A vintage style very decorative freestanding metal shelf unit in an aged bronze colour. 

The ornate edging and mesh shelves give The Provence Shelf unit a unique beautiful look that will last for years to come.

A vintage style shelf that will mix with all interiors in the bathroom, kitchen, hall and living room

Specifications

Width: 43cm
Depth: 29cm
Height: 67cm
Shelf Height: 29cm, Width: 20cm

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A perfect affordable and stylish narrow hallway table

At The White Lighthouse we know space is at a premium in most homes and with hallways generally being long and narrow are often the hardest to decorate and furnish so we have sourced the Newport French Grey and Colonial White half moon tables.  

A great idea when space is at a premium in your hallway, entryway or living room. The shape of table, at 30 cm deep, does not protrude into the space of the room as much as a more regular rectangle table making it a very popular choice when decorating narrow and small hallway spaces.

The table is a centre piece to the room allowing you to create a master piece of decor using home decor accessories, lamps or photographs. 

The Newport french grey half moon console table with a shelf

The Colonial White half moon console table with a shelf

The White Lighthouse
Online furniture and accessories shop for the home...

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