Coastal Living Room Interior Design
Ideas, layouts, colors and materials for a coastal living room — plus the pieces that make the look work.
Designing a coastal living room
A coastal living room blends the coastal look — airy + sheltered, bleached oak, limestone, linen, seagrass — with layouts and details that suit a living room. Start with the palette, anchor the room around a focal point, then layer in texture and lighting.
Coastal living room palette
Build most of the room from chalk, limestone and pale oak. Use dune sand to connect the textures, sea-glass grey once or twice and soft ink only where the composition needs an edge.
Color roles
A softened mineral white that reflects light without turning cold blue.
The mid-tone for weave, flooring and shadow between paler surfaces.
A muted blue-green accent for one cloth plane rather than an entire theme.
Adds dry warmth and visible grain to furniture and screens.
A restrained dark note for art, task surfaces or fine metal lines.
