Coastal Living Room with a Timber Clad Ceiling Ideas and Designs

Design ideas for a large beach style open plan living room in Vancouver with white walls, medium hardwood flooring, brown floors and a timber clad ceiling.

Treasure Island Condo

Evenflow Interiors

Inspiration for a large nautical open plan living room in Tampa with blue walls, porcelain flooring, a wall mounted tv, white floors and a timber clad ceiling.

Port Aransas Condo

Rural Birch

Finding elements that were not only stylish but also durable was crucial to the overall design and styling of this space as this doubles as a vacation rental for our client. Mixing style with functionality. We kept the original ceiling in the living room as well as the original cement accent wall in the living room. Everything else was changed. A window was added to the stair wall so that as you walk downstairs, you get a view of the ocean. The walls were painted a barely-there minty seafoam color and we stuck with a neutral color palette with pops of various shades of blues. Built-ins were installed to create a working space that doubles as extra storage. The sectional has a chaise that is used to store bedding and the middle part of the sectional pulls out to provide additional sleeping space for guests. The 3 paintings above the sofa were custom painted for the client's space, as well as the dining table and chairs. The rug is a beautiful piece that ties in all of the colors found throughout the downstairs space.

Bahamas House

D's Interior Design

Blue and white give this living area a coastal feel.
Inspiration for a large beach style open plan living room in Other with white walls, medium hardwood flooring, a timber clad ceiling and tongue and groove walls.

Front porch and Interior renovation

KB Lueck Building Consultants, LLC.

Inspiration for a large coastal formal open plan living room in Baltimore with grey walls, medium hardwood flooring, no fireplace, no tv, brown floors and a timber clad ceiling.

774 Sand Dollar Dr

Garriott Home & Design

This is an example of a medium sized beach style open plan living room with blue walls, medium hardwood flooring, a built-in media unit, brown floors, a timber clad ceiling and wallpapered walls.

Coastal Boho Bungalow

Jenna Morley Interiors

Design ideas for a medium sized coastal open plan living room in Jacksonville with beige walls, light hardwood flooring, no fireplace, a wall mounted tv, grey floors, a timber clad ceiling and tongue and groove walls.

River House Living

Dawn Ingram Design

Coastal living room in Other with light hardwood flooring, a standard fireplace, a stone fireplace surround and a timber clad ceiling.

Crescent Harbour

Bailey Designs

Design ideas for a coastal formal open plan living room in Other with white walls, light hardwood flooring, a standard fireplace, a stone fireplace surround, no tv, beige floors and a timber clad ceiling.

Historic Sea Cabins

St. Pierre Construction

Living room features natural cork wallpaper, shiplap ceiling, white oak floating, cast stone fireplace, custom lighting and furniture
This is an example of a nautical living room in Charleston with beige walls, light hardwood flooring, a standard fireplace, a concrete fireplace surround, a wall mounted tv, a timber clad ceiling and wallpapered walls.

2nd Level Den

Elizabeth Taylor Satterfield Interior Design, Inc.

Inspiration for a medium sized coastal enclosed living room in Charleston with medium hardwood flooring, a timber clad ceiling and panelled walls.

Showplace Framed Laundry in Sonoma Simpli Gray and Living Room

Cabinetry by Better Bilt

Cabinetry: Showplace Framed Style: Sonoma w/ Matching Five Piece Drawer Headers Finish: Laundry in Simpli Gray Countertops & Fireplace Mantel: (Solid Surfaces Unlimited) Elgin Quartz Plumbing: (Progressive Plumbing) Laundry - Blanco Precis Super/Liven/Precis 21” in Concrete; Delta Mateo Pull-Down faucet in Stainless Hardware: (Top Knobs) Ellis Cabinetry & Appliance Pulls in Brushed Satin Nickel Tile: (Beaver Tile) Laundry Splash – Robins Egg 3” x 12” Glossy; Fireplace – 2” x 12” Island Stone Craftline Strip Cladding in Volcano Gray (Genesee Tile) Laundry and Stair Walk Off Floor – 12” x 24” Matrix Bright; Flooring: (Krauseneck) Living Room Bound Rugs, Stair Runners, and Family Room Carpeting – Cedarbrook Seacliff Drapery/Electric Roller Shades/Cushion – Mariella’s Custom Drapery Interior Design/Furniture, Lighting & Fixture Selection: Devon Moore Cabinetry Designer: Devon Moore Contractor: Stonik Services

Bold & Curated Lake Villa

Monarch & Maker

This living room boasts an abundance of custom seating, featuring diverse fabrics, furniture styles, and accents, ensuring an engaging and visually captivating space.

From Bitter to Sweet

SGDI - Sarah Gallop Design Inc.

Photo of a large nautical open plan living room in Vancouver with white walls, medium hardwood flooring, a standard fireplace, a tiled fireplace surround, a built-in media unit, brown floors, a timber clad ceiling and tongue and groove walls.

Port Aransas Condo

Rural Birch

The fourth wall in the living room consists of floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking the ocean. This condo sleeps 8 so providing ample seating was important. One of our favorite features was adding two teal swivel chairs for guests to stare at the ocean while having coffee in the morning that is also just extra seating during gatherings. Finding elements that were not only stylish but also durable was crucial to the overall design and styling of this space as this doubles as a vacation rental for our client. Mixing style with functionality. We kept the original ceiling in the living room as well as the original cement accent wall in the living room. Everything else was changed. A window was added to the stair wall so that as you walk downstairs, you get a view of the ocean. The walls were painted a barely-there minty seafoam color and we stuck with a neutral color palette with pops of various shades of blues. Built-ins were installed to create a working space that doubles as extra storage. The sectional has a chaise that is used to store bedding and the middle part of the sectional pulls out to provide additional sleeping space for guests. The 3 paintings above the sofa were custom painted for the client's space, as well as the dining table and chairs. The rug is a beautiful piece that ties in all of the colors found throughout the downstairs space.

Treasure Island Condo

Evenflow Interiors

Photo of a large beach style open plan living room in Tampa with blue walls, porcelain flooring, a wall mounted tv, white floors and a timber clad ceiling.

Hermosa Beach Custom

Hudson Home

Medium sized beach style open plan living room in Los Angeles with a home bar, grey walls, medium hardwood flooring, a standard fireplace, a stone fireplace surround, a wall mounted tv and a timber clad ceiling.

Showplace Framed Laundry in Sonoma Simpli Gray and Living Room

Cabinetry by Better Bilt

774 Sand Dollar Dr

Garriott Home & Design

Design ideas for a medium sized coastal open plan living room with white walls, medium hardwood flooring, a built-in media unit, brown floors, a timber clad ceiling and wallpapered walls.

Coastal Home in Gloucester minutes from the beach

BK Classic Collections Home Stagers

Photo of a large nautical open plan living room in Boston with white walls, light hardwood flooring, a standard fireplace, a concrete fireplace surround, a timber clad ceiling and tongue and groove walls.

Coastal Living Room with a Timber Clad Ceiling Ideas and Designs

Looking for coastal living room ideas? Whether your living room is lacklustre, your lounge is limited in space, your sitting room is suffering from outdated decor or your front room is full of clutter, there are coastal living room ideas and designs that will inspire you to breathe life into your living space. Discover small living room ideas to help maximise tiny spaces or nautical layout ideas that will work with awkward shaped living rooms. Perhaps you’re struggling to decide on living room colours? Read on for help with colours, layout and design ideas, or find inspiration from the millions of living room photos on Houzz.

Coastal Living room wallpaper ideas

A good place to start when it comes to redesigning your living room is with the walls. While paint may seem the simplest choice, and easy to change, don’t discredit the design opportunities of beach style wallpaper in living rooms. There are tons of great living room wallpaper ideas, from modern geometric patterns to traditional florals, and loads of ways to use them – you don’t have to cover the whole room or go for the ubiquitous feature wall. You could wallpaper only above the dado rail (if you have one), either side of a chimney breast, or behind a shelving unit to give your displayed items a stylish backdrop. Discover more living room wallpaper ideas or if paint is more your style, there’s plenty of living room designs to discover when it comes to paint ideas; just browse through the huge selection of coastal living photos and search for the specific paint you’re after if you really want to narrow it down.

Small living room ideas

When it comes to our living room design, we want it to feel as welcoming and personality-filled as possible, but that can be a struggle when we’re working with a small space. But not to fear, there are nautical small living room ideas to help you make most out of what you’re working with. A couple of beach style small living room ideas can include: working with the height you have – installing floor-to-ceiling bookshelves or drawing the eye to the top of the walls with wallpaper; choosing space-saving or storage-incorporating (or both!) furniture, such as corner sofas with storage space under the chaise longue section; and keeping things symmetrical – a central fireplace with seating opposite, or seats facing each other, can give the illusion of a larger, more grand room. When it comes to the best decor for coastal small living rooms, you can either choose to keep things light and airy to open up the space, or embrace the cosiness of the smaller area you have by going for warm colours and filling the room with your favourite accessories.

Living room layouts and choosing the right nautical living room furniture

When it comes to the layout of your beach style living room, it will depend on what pieces of furniture you have – but how do you choose what living room furniture to add, whether you’re refreshing your living room design or starting from scratch? The best place to start is with the coastal seating – one corner sofa will usually seat three to four people, and if that’s all you think you’ll need, then you can leave it at that. Placing your sofa along the longest wall helps to make the most of the space, but think about where you want the focus of the room to be, too. If you need more seating, look at coastal armchairs that offer comfort but don’t take up too much space – cramming a room with too many large armchairs is something to avoid. But armchairs and sofas don’t have to be your only options – go for bean bags and floor cushions for an eclectic feel, pouffes and ottomans if you’re more traditional, and smart design chairs for contemporary living room ideas. Coffee tables are always handy, but you can always add a couple of coastal side tables if you don’t want to clutter the central space in front of seating with anything. If you centre your living room design around a fireplace or TV, then you might want storage and shelving to feature around the focus of your room. There are plenty of style options when it comes to TV units, and you can even go for bespoke living room storage units to make the most of the space if you want a sleek, built-in look. Keep reading below for more living room storage ideas. Discover a huge range of coastal living room furniture, as well as living room accessories, to help you finish your room design.

Living room design ideas

Struggling with what living room colours to choose, or what style to go with? While a grey living room design is popular at the moment, you might not want to go with the ubiquitous colour. Although, if neutral and contemporary are the living room ideas you’re after, a grey sofa or grey walls will give you a good base to work on. If you want to stay neutral, beige is not your only other option, either. Light yellows, taupes and soft greys will work. Why not try adding simple but plush cushions to your sofa and a rug in these colours to achieve a modern-traditional look? For contemporary living room ideas, dark blues and greens are on trend, but if you don’t want to dive straight into the dark wall trend, you could opt for a couple of pieces of furniture, or go for dark-hued living room accessories instead. Whites, woods and pastels could work well for Scandinavian living room designs. If an eclectic living room is what you’re after, you could go for large print wallpaper, a statement lighting piece, vibrant rug and lots of colourful book or ornament displays. For a country feel, rustic carpet, stone hearths, comfy armchairs and traditional patterns in creams, greens and browns will give you that cosy cottage feel.

Living room storage ideas

It’s natural that our living rooms tend to attract lots of items and belongings seeing as they act as multipurpose living spaces. Whether you love to read a book; watch a film; let your children play with their toys; practise a craft like knitting or drawing; play a musical instrument or play video games in your sitting room, there will always be a need for a few extra coastal living room ideas that can help you with storage. Apart from the standard bookcases, side tables and TV units, there are a few other handy living room storage ideas you can invest in. As mentioned before, if you have the room and budget for it, a built-in storage unit could be the way forward. With a well-built unit you could hide your TV, DVDs, players, books, video consoles and all sorts away in one place. If you don’t quite have a large enough area for one, you could look at shelving – either side of the chimney breast is a great place to install shelving if you have one in your living room. And don’t forget nautical living room furniture such as sofas, benches and ottomans that lift up to reveal hidden storage; providing seating and storing space at the same time. With the right storage solutions your beach style living room design could open up and feel so much more spacious and stylish. Discover more living room storage ideas by browsing these photos. Once you have your coastal living room storage, colours, design, layout and furniture sorted, all that’s left is to browse the millions of living room ideas on Houzz and save your favourites to an ideabook. If you’re still searching for specific living room ideas, check out the popular pages below:

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