Styling: Seaside

Creating A Seaside Look In Your London Home

Living by the sea is a unique experience and seaside homes often have a laid-back, coastal and relaxed vibe about them. If you are longing for life by the sea but have to settle for being cooped up in your London apartment, follow these simple tips for curating a seaside look in your city home.

Introduce coastal tones into your interiors

Being at the seaside invokes the colours of deep greens and blues mixed with cold greys and whites. Introduce these coastal tones into your homes in a few different ways: soft furnishings such as cushions, blankets, throws, rugs and more permanent features such as a sofa or chair. Adding in either one big piece or a few little pieces can create a red thread to tie all of your coastal decor together.

Work with one room

If you do not want to overwhelm your city home with coastal interiors, focus your coastal look in one room. Giving each room of your house a theme gives them a lot of personality so by focusing all your efforts in one room allows you to give as much or as little as you want to the theme. Having a coastal inspired room means you can get wild with your furniture choices, accessories and colour scheme as everything will be blended into the room.

Play with textures

Driftwood is heavily associated with the coast thanks to it washing up onto the beach in abundance. Introducing driftwood or a similar wood into your home instantly invokes a sense of being by the sea. Driftwood can be used to create many unique pieces of furniture from larger items such as tables and chairs to smaller items such as mirrors and trinket boxes. Using rope as a decoration also conveys your seaside theme. Use rope to hang up light fittings, hang rope wall hangings and use for curtain ties to thread it seamlessly into your interior look.

Don’t be afraid of overload when it comes to trinkets

Seaside inspired trinkets can be found in most interiors shops. Think ornaments of boats, anchors, shells and all kinds of marine creatures. Adding these to your home in abundance can add a real feel of being by the sea. They are easy to pick up in most interiors stores as a ‘coastal edit’ is very common but they are also great find in antique/vintage shops. The coastal trend has been popular for decades so exploring antique/vintage shops (especially by the coast) will guarantee you finding some treasures to add to your home.