Do you yearn to have a fresh and airy coastal living room?  It’s really not that difficult!  White painted walls and accent pieces are balanced with brown in this space.  Note that driftwood, metal and rattan represent the brown.  Using coastal blue as an accent color works beautifully in any coastal living room. Add some [...]

  Celebrate your love for the coastal cottage style by bringing some color into your world with OurBoatHouse.com‘s Coastal Cottage Collection of fine interior goods.  Weathered wood grains, deep blue, white and green add that fabulous coastal cottage styling to your home whether it’s located in the city or countryside.    Shopping Resources: Driftwood Headboard  [...]

  Trudy Dujardin owns a Nantucket Fisherman’s Cottage and is an interior designer who has devoted most of her life to finding ways to live lightly and gently upon our treasured earth.  Trudy shared, “My clients call my lifestyle design signature: eco-elegance.” We call it fabulous! Trudy’s summer home is located on the western tip [...]

  So, you love the lush tropics and the island style but live in the city or Midwest?  It might not be as difficult as you think to get the island interior design you dream of.   Kyle, author of the interior design blog Knight Moves, offers some great ways to achieve the Island Style you [...]

  Recycled and beautiful, what more could you ask for in a countertop? We renovated much of our last home (in Spokane, Washington) and one of our favorite design elements were the countertops we used.  We had the kitchen and all three bathroom counters updated with recycled materials from Granite Transformations.  Our favorite was the [...]