Making My Home Feel Light & Airy Like at a Beach

Colors

• Your choice of colors is one of the best ways to create a home that feels light and airy. Using light colors in your home can help you to achieve this. Light colors include neutral colors, like white, tan, beige and cream. Cool colors, like blue, aqua and green, give a calm, relaxing and soothing impression and can also help you make your home feel breezy like the beach. Use these colors, which are reminiscent of sand and the sea, on your walls fabrics and decorative objects.

Furniture

• Don't choose furniture that can make a room feel cold and uninviting, like furniture with a chrome finish or made of metal or glass. Instead, select furniture made of natural materials like wicker, rattan, seagrass or wood. Choose natural, whitewashed or lightly stained wooden furniture rather than dark wood to make your home feel light and airy. Chairs and benches with caning as well as rustic furniture, rather than modern, modular furniture, can give you the look and feel that you're trying to achieve.

Window Treatments

• Opt for lightweight fabrics or natural materials for your window treatments. Select cotton, cotton voile or linen drapes since these flow and have crisp look and feel. Additionally, these window treatments are available as sheer instead of opaque, which allow more light into your home, thus helping to make any room in your home feel light and airy. Wooden or bamboo blinds and shades in other natural materials, such as such as reeds, grasses and hemp, are often used in beach-style homes. Solid or printed window treatments are appropriate as long as the colors are neutral, light or cool tones.

Soft Furnishings

• Decorate your home with soft furnishings and select fabrics for your bedding, table linens, blankets and throw pillow covers in natural fabrics like linen and cotton, sheer cotton or cotton-blends. Cotton is a soft and durable fabric and linen, which is twice as strong as cotton, is crisp. Both can make your home feel light and airy. Furthermore, slipcovers for your sofa and chairs in these materials can have a relaxed fit that helps to create a home or room with a beach-casual feel.