Capture beach ambiance by bringing together a beach painting with a careful balance of room decorations. Make a simple statement by choosing natural materials and a straightforward color scheme. This establishes a room that is down-to-earth and unpretentious, not cluttered with trinkets. For a different approach, call attention to the beach painting with an effectual palette of bold colors that mimic the art. With a minimal amount of decorative elements, you can either create a serene space or liven it up.
Nautical Beach
Smarten up a room with decorations that harmonize with a nautical beach painting. Maintain background color in crisp whites or khaki tones but include decorations in navy blue or crimson red to dominate the space for dramatic effect.
Pick bold colors for nautical-themed throw pillows, bookends and lamp shades. Find bamboo or rattan chairs with bold-colored seat cushions and a matching accent table.
Include texture with a natural fiber rug such as sisal or sea-grass. Introduce brass decorations such as a weathered brass hinged trunk or ship's bell. Look for brass door knobs and handles. Hang up a brass rimmed porthole mirror.
Prop a hand-painted oar horizontally over a window frame. Complete the look by draping bold-colored canvas window treatments to frame an ocean view.
Seascape
Decorate a room to coordinate with a seascape by creating a tranquil space that is inviting. Pick a two-tone palette using the sea glass colors, ocean blue and sea green. Keep walls and floors neutral to harmonize with the background of the seascape. Let fabric and decorations establish color.
Pick hand-printed seascape or chenille throw pillows in the two-tone color scheme. Atop a vintage coffee table, place a wooden tray amassed with a sea glass collection. Echo the color with matching lamp shades and picture frames. Add bleached coral to a mantle and find a glass lamp to showcase sea glass.
Throw a jute rug on the floor and drape a sea glass colored blanket across a couch back. Hang a mirror made from weathered wood plank that has been painted in the same color scheme. Lastly, drape delicate gauze curtains for an airy ambiance.
Lighthouse on the Beach
Think of the Cape Cod seashore when complementing a lighthouse beach painting. Use three colors from the painting as the color source, such as cerulean blue and crisp white as the prominent colors with ruby red as accents.
Find a lighthouse nautical clock or life ring buoy mirror to hang on one wall. Situate a wooden lighthouse collection of varying heights on a bookshelf or mantle. On furniture, place a combination of hand printed lighthouse pillows along with bold accent ones. Look for lighthouse, buoy or life ring bookends or tabletop books on lighthouses.
Place a model wooden rowboat on a white-washed occasional table. Hang canvas pocket rod curtains in cerulean blue or a crisp white with lighthouse tie backs.
Add texture by displaying a bundle of tied “natural grass broom” on the floor. Transform wooden lobster buoys into a sculpture or use one for a door stop. Find glass fishing floats knotted in hemp to place in a reed basket.
