The Distinctive Cottage

Category: Coastal & Beach House

The Distinctive Cottage Blog - Get the Look: Punch O'Color Coastal Living Room
Coastal & Beach House

Get The Look: Tropical Brights

This lively tropical living room is full of personality that we just can’t get enough of! The neutral walls and the white slipcovers are a fantastic backdrop that sets the stage for the bright accent colors to really shine. The symmetrical layout makes the room easy on the eyes, and allows you to really enjoy the small and lively details of the space.

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Color Board: Bittersweet

This bittersweet palette boasts a perfect balance of cool and warm colors, sure to inspire coastal decorating ideas for your coastal cottage home. The splashy notes of coral and zesty lime are cooled off with a dose of soft seafoam. What’s wonderful about this palette is the versatility of the colors! You can emphasize the coral and the lime for a punchier look, or really play up the seafoam. Either way, the colors will create a harmonious atmosphere in any space.

Coastal & Beach House

Inspiration Board: Porch Breakfast Nook

What better way to wake up and enjoy a cup of coffee than on a three season porch? Here is an inspiration board to help you put together a quaint and cozy breakfast nook look. The hues of blue, cream, and white make for an easy-on-the-eyes palette that will blend right into the summer sky. Wicker pieces can help create a seamless transition from the inside to the great outdoors. Rattan is a natural material that is eco-friendly and durable. We suggest this look for a covered or three season porch only, because natural rattan is not meant to be in the direct elements.

Inspiration Boards: Blue and Green Room
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Inspiration Board: Lime & Aqua

Mixing together bright blues and zesty greens while maintaining a neutral color, such as white, creates a clean and inviting palette to invigorate just about anyone. In addition, blues and greens together to help to make a small room feel larger than it is. Add some eye catching details, such as prints and wall decor, to complete this fresh and fun room!

The Distinctive Cottage | Color Board: Mum's Stripe
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Color Board: Mum’s Stripe

Fresh and fun, the Mum’s Stripe Woven Cotton Rug expertly mixes yellow, dark pink, soft orange, and even purple in it’s stripes. Choosing this colorful rug as a focal point in your living and family room is not meant for the faint at heart. We paired it with a yellow leather, a patterned fabric pulling in all colors, a nautical blue, and a little extra pattern in tangerine. These colors highlight the liveliness of the rug and will captivate your family and friends.

Coastal & Beach House

Color Board: Soft Neutrals

The soft neutrals of this cottage kitchen colors combination never gets old because there are so many hues to explore. This combination is soft and quiet, bringing light and happiness into this stunning kitchen. Though the wall color and upper cabinets are both white, they are in different hues to create contrast: the walls are a warmer creamy white, whereas the cabinets have more of a gray undertone. This is a renovation done by designer Sarah Richardson, who brought a modern appeal to an old country farmhouse.

Coastal & Beach House

Rooms To Love: Mixing Materials

Not only does this nautical living room look amazingly comfortable, but it has a charming coastal appeal as well. This space successfully incorporates a myriad of materials, from cotton and leather to rattan and sea shell, the textures are endless. The traditional red, white, and blue color palette has a variety of unexpected touches, including the whimsical polka dot and geometric print pillows. This is a perfect way to utilize a transition space that leads from the kitchen to the porch. Having comfortable seating and place to put your feet up makes it easy to relax!

Inspiration Board: Blue and Brown
Coastal & Beach House

Inspiration Board: Blue and Brown

Decorating with blue and brown is easy since they are a great complementing color combination. Bring in rustic undertones to your lodge or lake house with this inspiration board, while keeping your design in the modern era. With this wicker chair, one can either bring it indoors for a nontraditional look or keep outside on the porch overlooking the serene lake. Either way, this beautiful piece of wicker furniture would provide the extra seating needed for your Memorial Day gathering with the family. Don’t forget the details! The lamp, rug, and pictures add a small hint of color.

Inspiration Board: Beach House Bedroom
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Inspiration Board: Beach Bedroom

Bring the beach into your home with this coastal inspired bedroom and cottage decorating ideas. The aqua bed frame provides just the right pop of color to be the focal point of the room. Surround this with beautiful lighting fixtures, such as the shell themed chandelier and the nautical Capiz Shell Table lamp and Voila! – your own private getaway. #cottagedecorating #beachhousebedroom

Inspiration Board: Painted Brights
Coastal & Beach House

Inspiration Board: Painted Brights

Who wouldn’t have fun with these colors? Eccentric, bright, and lively, you wouldn’t need to look for inspiration, motivation, or energy with these colors in your home. These colors, though vibrant, could easily be used in a bedroom. Simply pair the bright painted furniture with some neutrals to bring down the tone, while still allowing all colors to live and jive together in one area. The rug, a playful piece of decor, grounds all the pieces and becomes the focal point of the room.

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Design Tip: Natural Fiber Rugs

Do you love the look of natural fiber rugs, but are unsure of which kind would work for your home? If so, here are a few tips to help you find the right natural fiber (or alternative) rug to achieve the look you want.

Inspiration Board: Turquoise, Teal and Aqua
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Inspiration Board: Turquoise, Teal, and Aqua

Turquoise, Teal, or Aqua, no matter the name you use, this color remains a popular trend today, in hues from light to dark. When considering aqua decorating ideas for your home, aqua may be best used to create pops of color in your living room, dining room, bedroom, or kitchen. In the kitchen, you could place the wicker chairs around a beautiful neutral colored table under the aqua chandelier, allowing all the pops of color to speak for themselves. Alternatively, we could imagine using some of these pieces in a living room. The airiness of the color provides a soothing sense of calm, all the while, providing beauty. Aqua blues also making a soothing bedroom choice in more muted tones.

To our valued customers,

Given the current market uncertainty, we felt it would be a good idea to provide you an update on our products. As you may know, we are a small, family-owned business that has been offering custom made furniture from our 15 US based workshops for over 20 years. Each of our custom furniture collections is made at a different workshop. We are a small business that supports other small businesses.

Fortunately for us, our workshops have minimal exposure to import tariffs. Our wood species (both new and reclaimed), iron beds, upholstery frames, seat cushions and floor cloths are all sourced in the US. Selective hardware, shoreline fabrics, and finishing products are imported but are a small percentage of our overall cost. Our wicker furniture frames are imported but cushions are all sourced in the US.

Currently, we have two collections affected by tariffs:

Cottage Wicker Furniture Collection: 6% Tariff
Shoreline Slipcovered Furniture Collection: 3% Tariff

We do not anticipate any significant price changes due to import tariffs. We look forward to continuing to create unique furniture designed by you and custom built for you.

Thank you,

Your Cottage Home Team

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