Do you yearn to have a fresh and airy coastal living room? It’s really not that difficult! White painted walls and accent pieces are balanced with brown in this space. Note that driftwood, metal and rattan represent the brown. Using coastal blue as an accent color works beautifully in any coastal living room. Add some [...]
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Celebrate your love for the coastal cottage style by bringing some color into your world with OurBoatHouse.com‘s Coastal Cottage Collection of fine interior goods. Weathered wood grains, deep blue, white and green add that fabulous coastal cottage styling to your home whether it’s located in the city or countryside. Shopping Resources: Driftwood Headboard [...]
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Trudy Dujardin owns a Nantucket Fisherman’s Cottage and is an interior designer who has devoted most of her life to finding ways to live lightly and gently upon our treasured earth. Trudy shared, “My clients call my lifestyle design signature: eco-elegance.” We call it fabulous! Trudy’s summer home is located on the western tip [...]
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Recycled and beautiful, what more could you ask for in a countertop? We renovated much of our last home (in Spokane, Washington) and one of our favorite design elements were the countertops we used. We had the kitchen and all three bathroom counters updated with recycled materials from Granite Transformations. Our favorite was the [...]
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Welcome aboard! It’s easy to get seaside style wherever you live with these quality handmade pillows from sponsor, Beachside Style. Their pillows are soft and squeezable and are a quick and easy way to add or change your room. Whether it’s your den, family room, beach house, patio or deck — the addition of [...]
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I must admit that I really “like” this week’s Love It or Hate It? Award-winning artist, Jennifer Maestre, creates detailed sculptures of sea urchins. Each sculpture is created with 1-inch segments of colored pencils…hundreds of them! Jennifer explained, “My sculptures were originally inspired by the form and function of the sea urchin. The spines of the [...]
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I escaped last weekend…not to a tropical resort; but it was still amazingly refreshing and renewing. The “Escape Hues” color palette from Design-Seeds.com is one of those amazing palettes which offers a tropical palette with less than typical shades. We used Let’s Chip It! from Sherwin Williams to see what colors they recommend using [...]
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This quiz was so much fun to take, even though the results were exactly as I imagined. What’s Your Color Personality is a short series of questions on Better Homes & Gardens website which will help you discover your personality…in color! Once you’ve discovered which personality you have, you have the opportunity to download a [...]
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Spanish designer, Maximo Riera, creates sculptural seating; which I’m honestly not really sure I appreciate. The walrus chair featured today is the third in a series of seating. The walrus accompanies his Octopus Chair and Rhino Chair. The series of chairs retain the vitality of the animals which they represent, staying true to their biology and appearance. [...]
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A strong and increasingly popular trend in both fashion and interior design, the nautical theme is one that can be easily recreated in any bedroom. eclectic spaces design If you’re looking for a design theme with a fresh yet calming feel, then nautical is the way to go and it is very easy [...]
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When you buy a holiday cottage, it can be nice to decorate and furnish it totally differently from the way you decorate your main home. For instance, if your holiday place is by the sea, you can go all out with nautical décor, or go for a really natural beachcombing look. contemporary bedroom [...]
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Spring is such a fabulous time of renewal! Longer days, sunshine, warm sand ready to sink our toes into. Beach Grass Shop, located in Kennebunkport, is where “summer never ends” and they aren’t kidding. If you’re not near their retail location then you’ll be happy to hear that they’ve recently renewed the appearance of [...]
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Currey & Co. creates chandeliers, lamps, wall sconces and accent furniture. We love the fact that their unique designs have a clear understanding of historic design with a lot of imagination. A large majority of their home decor include natural materials; which make them perfect for coastal lifestyle enthusiasts. Our friends at Caron’s [...]
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Fun is what the color palette lime is all about! A lime color palette can work for a whole range of interior styles from bold to soft and elegant. It really ‘pops’ when used with crisp white or tone it down with softer green shades. The possibilities are really endless. other design by seattle media [...]
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Scrolling blue and green paisley swirls ebb and flow across the Oceana Paisley Bedding Collection; now available from our friends at Ocean Styles. The beautiful bedding’s pattern is mirrored on the standard shams, while the Euro shams and dust ruffle have a coordinating stripe pattern of ocean teal, blue and greens. The two patterns together [...]
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