Light Up The Lakehouse With A Nautical Theme
I have this small lake house with some awfully cruel lighting. See, I’m approaching the age of 40, and while fluorescents probably looked like a good thing at that moment to whomever was the decorator for this little home? They are a nightmare to good taste generous lighting to sensitive skin. They’re obtrusive, loud, and project a yellow-tinted bright light that helps me seem like Grandma Moses.
Therefore even as I was redoing the rest of the house with paint, wallpaper, bead board, new tile, new vinyl, carpeting, household furniture, drapes, rugs, linens and bathroom stuff, I recognized I had innovative lighting to look forward to. I had chosen to move ahead with a marine design for understandable motives, and also as a result of the fact that it actually does look nice. There are many tips you can use, be it fish, warm weather themes, vessels, lighthouses, the coast, that I’ve acted in a couple alternative ways, but it really all comes together.
While contemplating the lighting, I have been becoming a bit silly with my marine decor. After extensive World wide web investigation, I’ve found some companies even give free shipping for all the web transactions.
For the bedrooms, I tore out a number of ugly old style hanging lights and replaced them with free-standing lamps and lighthouse table lamps from Authentic Models for the nightstands. Inside the boys room, I decided to go with the beach cabana table lamp and a black pole lamp, and completed the room with a beach theme, based all around the awesome table lamp. With yellows and blues, the boys room seems like its outdoors, and you keep waiting to have to remove sand off your feet when you go in or out. They find it irresistible, because I’ve put up framed beach scenes and maps. They’ve loved their towels hanging from decorative hooks right in their room, and any SpongeBob accoutrements fit right in.
For my bedroom, I decided to go with an AM USA lighthouse nautical lamp. They have more muted colors compared to what I chose in the boys’ room, that permitted me to play with bamboo, sand-colors and grays and blacks. Our bedroom is slightly more subtle and discerning than the kids, but still has nice lighting for reading or for getting dressed, without the overhead ugliness that comprised the lighting in there previous to.
For the family room, we all voted and came up with an antique silver tripod floor lamp, and 2 oil lamps for the end tables. The boys love the novelty of each of the lamps, above all the concept of filling the oil lamps in advance of using them as well as the way they work. The decor enables a happy fit with these choices, the entire house tying into the nautical theme easily. The lighting itself is not overhead, is more muted because of the lower-watt bulbs, and the oil lamps certainly impart a softer glow that is very complementary to both people and settings.
The chrome accents within the silver tripod lamp go well with the transition from living room to cooking area, where all my chrome appliances and kitchen things seem to marry to the motif well. I have seashell accents inside the kitchen, with grass mat wallpaper and brightly colored bowls and plates, and it all generally works.
I’m so delighted I went with a nautical theme for my little place at the lake. It could go in so many directions, and offered me the flexibility to get creative.
