The best inspirational coastal dining rooms to help you decorate your home. Whether you live near the ocean or dream of living near the ocean, you can easily decorate your home with a coastal theme. Although, it may seem a little tricky, you can easily create a coastal setting in any home. It’s simply a matter of using the right materials, colors, and textures.
We have rounded up a list of 23 different decor ideas with a beach, lake, or seaside styled look. These ideas can easily transition to any home regardless of your location – seaside or further away from the seaside. As an additional resource, check out our 12 Ways to Add Coastal Decor to your Home post.
Coastal Dining Rooms that Inspire
If you need to refresh or update your dining room, we are sharing some ideas for a coastal styled dining room. Ideas that we hope you’ll find informative and helpful. Take a look at our inspirational coastal dining room tips.
1. Blend Textures of Similar Colors – Coastal Dining Rooms
Blend textures of similar colors within the same room. The white sheer curtains not only provide privacy but still allow light inside the home during the day. The best of both worlds. Add a set of white ceramic vases to hold greenery. The smaller vase has faux lavender which has silver gray foliage. For dining room seating, a set of white wicker chairs give this space its modern coastal vibe. An area rug has a blend of gray and white square pattern. A beautifully blended mix of white textures.
2. Add Warm Natural Tones
Add warm natural tones for a contrast with the white table, walls, and molding. Install a tongue and groove ceiling, woven window shades, and a wooden floor for warm natural earth tones. The contrast really makes this room stand out.
3. Paint the Blues
Paint the ceiling and walls above the wainscoting blue. The ceiling is a lighter shade of blue than the wall color. Warm earth tones in the bench, table, chandelier, and surfboard provide a great balance of colors. The blues, whites, and warm natural tones blend so well together.
4. Decorate with Coastal Blues and Rustic Woods
Decorate the dining room with coastal blues, rustic washed wooden floors, with crisp white molding and walls. Hang a light fixture that resembles sea shells in shape and color such as this chandelier.
5. Mix in Woven Textures – Coastal Dining Rooms
Mix in woven textures from rattan wicker and seagrass. In this dining room, the end chairs are made from rattan wicker. Use seagrass placemats for additional woven texture.
6. Combine the Old with the New
Combine the old with the new. Bamboo furniture has been used traditionally as coastal furniture for many years. Mix lucite furniture, a durable acrylic material, with bamboo furniture for an updated coastal look. The mix of bamboo and lucite dining room chairs gives the room a very modern coastal decor.
7. Light Up Your Room with a Pendant
Install a rattan pendant in your dining room. Nothing says coastal more than rattan does. Again in this dining room space, the warm wood chairs, table, and rattan pendant blends well with surrounding white colors.
8. Use Parisian Bistro Chairs
A classic, the Parisian bistro or cafe chairs have always been big with coastal decor. The chairs are traditional bentwood chairs wrapped in rattan. They tend to be lightweight, sturdy, timeless, and durable. Select from a variety of colors, sizes, and shapes of bistro chairs. The contrast of crisp white with warm earth tones in the dining chair is a quintessential Parisian bistro chair.
9. Add Rattan Furnishings – Coastal Dining Rooms
Another classic coastal look is the use of rattan furniture and furnishings. Dining room chairs are made from a woven rattan.
10. Bring Oceanic Elements and Wall Art to the Room
Grace Hill Design believes design is in the details. As you can see, they are meticulous when it comes to the details. Install an oceanic element such as a white coral lighting fixture to make a statement.
Since Grace Hill Design says it best – “Artwork adds style and a personal connection to your space.” There are many sources of coastal wall art to select from. All in various price points.
11. Roll Out the Jute or Sisal
Roll out the area rug made from Jute or Sisal. A Jute or Sisal rug is a durable rug that lends itself to a coastal style. This rug is finished in a fabric wrap at each end of the rug.
12. Mix a Timber Bench with Rattan Chairs
Rather than using rattan chairs around the table, the designer mixed it up a bit. The dinner table has rattan chairs on one side and an informal bench on the other. Reflective of many seaside homes.
13. Go Tropical with a Bromeliad
Bring the tropics to the dining room with a Bromeliad plant. The bromeliad plant along with the rattan chairs adds a contrast to the white round monochromatic table.
14. Give Your Walls and Ceiling the VJ Treatment
Give your ceiling and walls the VJ treatment. Install VJ or vertical join panelling. Also known as tongue and groove panelling or wood planks. This vertical or horizontal look gives your home a more finished traditional beach house look.
15. Maximize your Seating Options – Coastal Dining Rooms
Get the most out of seating with a banquette seat. In years past, banquettes were typically seen in diners or restaurants. Now, more and more banquettes are found in furniture stores for residential homes. A banquette can accommodate more people at the dinner table. Which is great when you have a hungry crowd to feed.
16. Brighten the Dining Room
Keep the windows uncovered. Sunlight brightens the entire house with a lot of windows. The white washed ceilings add even more of a brightening effect. Enjoy the gorgeous view of the ocean.
17. Cover the Room with Coastal Wallpaper
Use wallpaper to cover the room for a dramatic look. Navy and white bistro chairs with a rattan bar cart look amazing. Finishing off with a rattan pendant light and beach wall art.
18. Hang a Beaded Chandelier
Surprise your dinner guests with this masterpiece of a chandelier. A true contrast between the elegant chandelier and the table centerpiece of sea urchins, driftwood, with a Monstera leaf.
19. Create Drama with Black Malawi Chairs
Expect the unexpected with dramatic black Malawi chairs. Bold and beautiful black pendant fixtures against a warm wood timber table. The white shutters in the background make this dining table set standout.
20. Add Nautical Theme – Coastal Dining Rooms
Display your love of the ocean with a sailboat as a focal point. All eyes are immediately drawn to the sailboat when your guests enter the dining room.
21. Add a Little Glam
Show off a Capiz covered light pendant over the dinner table. Capiz has a sheen to the surface which provides a bit of glam to the room.
22. Go Danish
Go Danish with Wishbone chairs. Although Wishbone chairs were designed for a mid Century modern decor, they are well suited to a modern coastal decor style. First manufactured in 1950 by a Danish cabinet maker, the chair is sleek with an ergonomically-minded wooden frame and woven seat. Because of this design, they remain popular to this day.
23. Build an Attached Banquette
Add a built in banquette to a kitchen area. Cushions are covered in wide striped pattern for a nautical look.
This concludes our list of inspirational coastal dining rooms with seaside style. Do you have a favorite decor style tip for a coastal dining room? We hope you’ve found some decor ideas that inspire you to expand your coastal home decor. As an additional resource, take a look at our 12 Ways to Add Coastal Decor to your Home post.
Enjoy our other home decor related posts for additional ideas.
Coastal White Sofas for Beach Homes
Console Tables with Seaside Style
31 Coastal Table Lamps We Love
Rattan Coffee Tables
Rattan Mirrors for the Coastal Home
25 Best Coastal Rattan Chairs for a Beach House
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Mary