Be Colorful Coastal

Coastal Dishes

 

 

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For the time being, our coastal home is a second home. Simply put, we are keeping our home up north, so for now we aren't bringing anything with us. We are starting completely over right down to the dishes. I feel like a new bride. Well, sort of. :D

 

Amazon Prime has become one of my best friends over the past eight months. It was a one stop shop and ship romance when it came to the home basics. Among the first things we bought were pots and pans, dishes and glassware. The pots and pans were fine and we went with a basic white porcelain  dish set.

Amazon Prime Gorham

 

Yes, I was playing it safe. I was hoping to find something that was substantial enough for everyday but not too casual if I felt like putting on the ritz.

I didn't have a clue really. Little did I realize that we would eat almost every meal out on the lanai or how seldom we would cook now that it was just the two of us. It is just a different lifestyle here. There are so many more dining options and when we do stay in it is usually a very casual re-plating affair from Whole Foods. 

I found some clear glass glasses at TJ Maxx that I thought would work but within a short period of time I realized that we were eating and drinking out by the pool 90% of the time.

It was time to invest in some un-breakables.

I started with these cobalt blue beauties from Pottery Barn and I love love love them.

 

 

Wine connoisseurs everywhere will be shaking their heads but it wasn't long before I was embracing this durable dining concept and went so far as to order these hammered glass looking acrylic wine glasses (also from Pottery Barn).

 

At least I had them monogramed to help keep it classy.

 

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 It seemed like  these were becoming our go-to glasses and we were always running out  so I ordered a second set.  They are dishwasher safe and they don't get that cloudy look that has happened with other plastic glassware.

 

It was sale time at Pottery Barn so I added some melamine dishes too.

 

 

 

They call these red but to me they read coral. They work well with my color scheme and with the cobalt blue glasses. I am, though, what might be called a dish whore. So now I think I need some melamine dishes in white too.

 

 

The thing about white dishes is that food always looks great on them plus they mix so well with other patterns and colors.

 

I could combine those dishes and the cobalt glasses with any of these options for a fun colorful table.

 

 

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Actually there isn't much that these cobalt blue glasses and white dinnerware wouldn't combine with and I love options so let the entertaining begin!

 

xoxo,

p

 

1. Ocean Offerings

2.Ocean Offerings

3. Pop Sugar

4. Zazzle

5. Martha Stewart

6. HSN

7. Bambuzo

8. Wayfair

9. Galleyware

10. Le Cadreaux

11. Kate Spade

 

 

 

Adding the Color To A Coastal Living Room

 

 

Welcome to our coastal living room which is still a work in progress. We bought our home right before Christmas and it is a second home that will perhaps someday become our primary residence. In the meantime we are not bringing things from our Midwest home. We still need those items there and  we want a different, more coastal, feel for this house.  As a result we are literally starting over and to do this without taking on debt means going slowly.

We decided that before we added any furniture we would have the walls and ceilings repainted. By March we had added some artwork, a sofa and a cocktail table but it was still your basic white box.

 

 

I was drawing my inspiration from the artwork we had purchased.

 

 

We added a black sofa table to balance out the black fireplace on the opposing wall and that gave me some surface area to bring in a few bursts of color with accessories like this red and orange glass bowl I found at Wilford and Lee.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I have never ever been a blue person. Perhaps it is the coastal air but lately I am drawn to this segment of the color wheel. I think my big guy was as surprised as I was when I  selected a blue trellis pattern for a pair of swivel chairs.

 

 

 

 

 

I usually don't like things too matchy match but I knew I needed to bring this blue into the other side of the room but I didn't want to spend the money for custom pillows. I eventually found some pillows at Home Goods.

 

 

 

The color was right but the pattern looked like I was trying to match and missed. I ended up finding pillow covers on Etsy that were the same pattern as the chairs. Score!

 

I will keep looking for a couple more pillows in coral or chartreuse to layer in more color and interest but at least I have a start. 

 

A Global Views tangerine bowl and some inexpensive mermaids flanking the fireplace mirror also helped to infuse the space with life.

 

 

 

 

It is a fluid project. I am still moving things around trying to fill a home with too few pieces of furniture but I think we are actually progressing ahead of schedule.

 

 

 

Our next purchase will be a rug but really, I'm proud of what we have accomplished so far. A lot of the major purchases have been made, a more concrete design plan is evolving and now the interesting layering can begin.

 

 

Thanks for stopping by and your input is always appreciated.

xoxo,

p