Choosing Furniture for Renovating a Seaside Apartment

A beach house is a special place. It’s the perfect spot to relax and disconnect from the city routine. You can spend long summer holidays there, or quick weekends. It can be enjoyed alone, with family, or among friends. It can be shared or rented out. A beach house can be experienced in many different ways. For this reason, choosing furniture for renovating an apartment by the sea involves evaluating many elements. However, there is one universally valid rule: a beach house must be a unique place, furnished with comfort and relaxation in mind.
 

Create a Home with a Unique Atmosphere

If the beach house you’re renovating isn’t your primary residence, it’s very important to give it character. Don’t replicate the decor of your city residence. The beach house is a place to break away from daily routine, it’s a special place. Create your own little personal oasis of peace.
 

Focus on Practicality, Reduce Clutter

Don’t overload the decor. The secret to achieving a restful and rejuvenating environment is to focus on essentials. Don’t try to fill empty spaces at all costs. Include only functional elements. No knick-knacks. If you don’t have much space at your disposal, opt for sliding doors, folding chairs, and sofa beds. This way, you’ll always be able to move around the house easily, without giving up the possibility of hosting friends and relatives.
 

Choose Durable, Easy-to-Clean Materials

When choosing furniture for a beach house, it’s important to select durable furniture and accessories that are suitable for frequent cleaning. In particular, when furnishing outdoor spaces, prioritize furniture that is resistant to salt air and weather. Focus on natural materials, but treated to ensure maximum durability, such as iroko or teak wood. Materials used in nautical design prove to be extremely functional for furnishing a beach house as well. Rope and linen are best suited. Glossy materials or warm and impractical fabrics like velvet are absolutely rejected.
 

Play with Sea and Summer Colors

The choice of colors is fundamental in creating the right atmosphere. White is undoubtedly one of the best colors overall for a beach house. It’s a typically Mediterranean color, perfect for summer, offering numerous combination possibilities. When furnishing a house in white, you can then freely play with the colors of accessories. It’s also a winning choice to focus on marine-themed color palettes, favoring light blue, sky blue, aqua green, and various shades of blue. This choice is a classic in maritime Interior Design that never goes out of style.

Categorically avoid colors that are too dark, or glossy surfaces. These tend to radiate heat and require constant maintenance.
 

Find the most Suitable Style…

Some styles prove to be the perfect combination of colors and materials for furnishing a beach house. Let’s look at which ones can be most inspiring:

• Mediterranean

The Mediterranean style is perfect for a house with a sea view. It allows for creatively combining white and various shades of blue, favoring light fabrics and natural materials. If you want to be bolder, opt for lemon yellow and coral red elements, also considering the decorative effect of colorful majolica tiles, a typical element of Mediterranean aesthetics. In many cases, it might be interesting to focus on iconic elements of the local regional tradition (such as Vietri ceramics in Campania, or Moor’s heads in Sicily).

• Minimal

To furnish a beach house in an elegant, simple, and functional way, minimalism is the winning choice. Choose the sobriety of geometries, favor solid colors. Opt for contemporary solutions, modular and space-saving, don’t add anything that isn’t necessary. The result will be elegant, and practicality will win.

• Shabby Chic

The shabby chic style, interpreted in a nautical key, is also well-suited for furnishing a beach house. This style, in fact, provides an excellent combination of light colors and natural fabrics. Choose furniture in raw wood or vintage pieces. Focus on light-colored linen fabrics, lace, eyelet lace, and rope. Look for vintage prints of lighthouses, ships, and marine animals. For lighting, choose lanterns, candles, and candelabras, always evocative elements perfect for summer nights.
 
If you’re thinking of renovating a beach house to rent it out, also consider creating a small “Instagram-friendly” space. Focus on some characteristic elements that best express the atmosphere of the place and lend themselves well to a few “selfies“. The house will be remembered by guests and noticed on social media by other potential clients.
 
Looking for more ideas to renovate and furnish your beach house creatively?

 
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