Coastal Kitchen Makeover
Vacation never has to end. Bring the seaside to your kitchen by creating a light and breezy beach look with these simple ideas.
INSPIRATION #1
Coastal Tile Backsplash by New Ravenna
Because of its relatively small area, your backsplash is one place in the kitchen you can budget for extravagantly gorgeous materials, like mosaic tile. While you might want to keep your floors and counters more neutral if you're thinking of home resale value, your backsplash can be bold, colorful, and personal.
Alternate Take: Mermaid Glass Tile from TileBar
How To: Lay and Grout Mosaic Tile
Cheap Take: DIY Backpainted Acrylic Backsplash
After making the backsplash the focal point of your kitchen redesign, select appliances and linens that compliment your backsplash colors. You may have to think of home resale value when you're selecting your countertops or refinishing your cabinets, but your linens and countertop appliances should be all about what brings you joy when you're in the kitchen.
INSPIRATION #2
Brisbane Seaglass Dining Chair Cushions
While you're cooking, make a comfortable spot for your family to study or for your guests to socialize by investing in cushions for your kitchen island stools or breakfast table chairs. Barnett's dining chair cushions and stool covers feature thick latex foam pads for premium comfort.
Alternate Take: Ticking Stripe Natural Dining Chair Cushions
How To: Measure Your Chairs for Cushions
Cheap Take: Hayden Turquoise Dining Chair Cushions
Once you're settled on your backsplash and accessory colors, pick counters and floors that will survive the passage of trends and won't compete with the focal points in your room.
INSPIRATION #3
Emerald Coast Countertop by Vetrazzo
Featuring recycled glass from architectural sources, leftover oyster shells from South Carolina, and crushed marble offcasts from Georgia, this composite counter material is beautiful, sustainable, and locally sourced.
Alternate Take: Butcher Block Countertops
How To: Measure & Calculate Cost for Kitchen Countertops
Cheap Take: DIY Recycled Glass and & Concrete Countertops
Cabinets and Lighting Fixtures will come next in your design. It may comes as a surprise, but wall color will be selected last! (Naturally, this is the order you select your design elements in, not the order you install everything!)
Before we had plastic buoys, fishermen kept their nets and lines afloat with glass bulbs. Originally used in Norway in the 19th century, this technology made its way around the world. The examples we're most familiar with today have been collected by beachcombers along the West Coast, having been lost by Japanese fishermen many years ago. The bulbs were crafted by glassblowers from recycled glass, much of which came from sake bottles. Because the globes were produced in large quantities for utilitarian purposes, they often include imperfections and tiny bubbles, but collectors appreciate these as part of their hand-crafted character.
INSPIRATION #4
Japanese Glass Fishing Floats Pendant Lights
Authentic floats come in similar colors to the seaglass that washes up on theeast Coast from discarded bottles, but reproductions are typically green, blue or aquamarine.
Alternate Take: Anchor Lantern Light Fixtures
How To: Installation Guide to Change Your Light Fixtures
Cheap Take: DIY Faux Japanese Fishing Floats Light Shades
INSPIRATION #5
Saltwash Powder
Achieve the look of years of seapray and sun weathering on your wall art or accent furniture with a Salt Wash paint treatment. This look is accomplished by mixing additives to chalk paint, latex paint, or acrylic paint, then painting on layers of beachy colors and lightly sanding.
Alternate Take: Rust & Brass Patina Finish
How To: Make Your Own Salt Wash Paint Mix
Lazy Take: Coastal Wall Art That Someone Else Salt Washed For You
