Beach Decorating Blog

NOW is a great time to consider updating your outdoor living space before your beach home guests start arriving. A durable, easy to clean, weather-safe, indoor-outdoor area rug is a great place to start!We've put together some easy design tips to help you determine the best way, and the best rug size to add to your outdoor living area for the coming spring and summer season.Get out your measuring tape and see what works best for you!Step One: Measure your outdoor space AND your furniture sizes. … read more

Coastal without being "beachy", the Marina indoor-outdoor area rug collection is created with lovely neutral sand and dune colors plus a dark blue and red nautical color palette too. So versatile for spring outdoor decorating and beyond!The upscale styled Marina rug collection combines a soft, velvety appeal with livable durability in textured hi-lo effect. The captivating yet versatile simple geometric patterns that resembles rope ties,  lends these beautiful floor coverings an easy-decora … read more

Friday Design Tip: For a classic, non-trendy decorated look, simply mix in natural textures and elements!Bring the beauty of the outdoors inside your home with all-natural materials like bamboo, rattan, woven jute, seagrass, wicker and braided water hyacinth fibers.  We would even consider natural burlap fabrics too when mixing and matching. Beautiful neutrals to complement your sea blues and aqua color palette - perfect to bring it all together! Your beach home will instantl … read more

We added this fabulous series of artisan created natural shell, semi-precious crystal stones and fabric framed wall art pieces from Jamie Young Co. just before the holidays, and have not had one minute to show them off the way that they need to be presented. Today, as we were adding them to our President's Day sale, we realized our error and wanted to give these amazing works of art their due! Truly stunning and unique, each one of these framed art installations harkens to the days of handcrafte … read more

(Featured above NEW Crab Motif Melamine Plates)We've been patiently waiting since long before the holidays for our Half Moon Bay fishing fleet to be able to bring in their pots filled with Dungeness Crabs. The fishermen had to wait longer for crab season this year to stay out of the way of migrating grey whales.  Honestly, I am okay with waiting longer if it means that the whales have a better opportunity for a safer journey south to Mexico... (featured above - Pewter Crab Twisted … read more