Decorating your seaside home: Pixtury's tips for creating your ideal space!

For most of us, the sea is synonymous with summer and holidays. When we are at the seaside, we want to relax, leave our worries behind along with the hectic pace of city life, live with a light heart and enjoy the fresh coastal air. Summer is carefree: all we want is to switch off from everyday life and recharge without a thought in our heads, wandering around town in flip-flops.

When decorating a seaside home, it's important to keep these needs in mind and create a retreat that meets them. In this guide you will find plenty of tips and suggestions for perfectly decorating your seaside home, to help you make it welcoming, unique and special!

We will also give you suggestions for designer wall art online that you can buy directly from our gallery and, in particular, sea prints and pictures.

1. How to decorate a seaside home

Before decorating our seaside home, the first question to ask ourselves is: what kind of feeling do we want inside our home? Each of us has our own tastes and needs, and depending on whether we want to recall the freshness of a dip in the water, the serenity of a stroll along the beach or the relaxation of a sunlounger under a palm tree, our décor will take different forms.

Generally speaking, Shabby Chic style suits any seaside home perfectly, since the distressed wood typical of the style goes beautifully with the colours and themes of the sea.

Cool colours and white, like the sky and the sea, are the dominant colours in seaside homes, because they blend perfectly with the surroundings outside. However, to keep the atmosphere from feeling too cold, it's a good idea to use pastel colours that soften the overall effect. We can also use decorative prints for this purpose, like the ones we suggest below.

Bear in mind that the kitchen or dining room are the most important rooms in a seaside home, as the days are usually spent on the beach and the only times everyone gets together are lunch and dinner. That's why it's important to focus on these rooms first!

In general, seaside homes are best kept in a minimal style with few decorative objects, both for security during the winter months when the house is empty and to make it practical to use and quick to clean when needed, so that it's easy to pop down even for just a few days.

Decorative prints with little detail or black and white posters like the ones we suggest now can help create an elegant, pared-back atmosphere.

Particular attention should be paid to sofas and cushions: in seaside homes people often sit on sofas and armchairs in wet or sandy swimwear. To get around this, remember to buy sofas with removable, easily washable covers or, alternatively, to get some sofa throws. As for curtains, they really must be white and very light to let in as much light as possible.

If we have overdone the cool colours, don't worry! Add warm tones here and there, or elements that recall the sand, to balance the effect and make the home feel welcoming again.

2. Furnishing our seaside home

The main materials used in seaside homes are natural ones: raw wood or wood painted white or beige, cotton, linen, bamboo, wicker. Glass is also a very important material to use, as it recalls the water of the sea.

In general, when decorating the walls too, it's best to stick to water and sea themes. Have a look at the prints we suggest to create this effect.

When it comes to floors, remember that here too sand is our worst enemy! So choose smooth tiles that are easy to clean and where sand won't get trapped.

For decorative objects on shelves and coffee tables, we can let our imagination run free and draw on typical seaside elements: shells, fish, starfish, ship's wheels, anchors, coral, fishing nets, boats and lighthouses. It's very important not to overdo these elements, so that our décor keeps an underlying sense of restraint and elegance.

To tone down a room with too many nautical references, we can use flower and plant posters, which can rebalance the final atmosphere while staying in harmony with the rest of the décor.

Here are a few prints with typically seaside subjects that you can use to decorate the walls of your home.

3. Seascapes

Finally, we would like to suggest a few seascape pictures that are perfect for a seaside home.

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Remember that in our gallery you can buy canvas pictures and modern prints of all the images we have shown you.

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