Light Up The Lakehouse With A Nautical Theme

I've this small lake house with some very poor lighting. See, I'm coming up on 40, and while fluorescents probably appeared like a good thing at the time they were first acquired to the person who was in charge of designing this tiny house? They are a nightmare to quality taste and kind lighting to aging skin. They're intrusive, loud, and put off a yellow-tinted bright light that helps me seem like Grandma Moses.

So even as I was redoing the rest of the house with paint, wallpaper, bead board, fresh tile, new vinyl, carpeting, pieces of furniture, drapes, rugs, linens and bathroom stuff, I recognized I had modern lighting to look ahead to. I'd decided to go with a seafaring design for obvious reasons, but also as a result of the fact that it in actuality does look nice. There are an immense amount of guidelines you can go with, be it fish, tropical themes, boats, lighthouses, the shore, that I've gone in several different ways, however it all comes together.

With the lighting, I've certainly been getting slightly crazy with my sailing decor. After broad Online study, I've found a number of companies even offer complimentary shipping for all the on-line orders.

For the bedrooms, I ripped out several ugly old school hanging lamps and replaced them with free-standing lamps and lighthouse table lamps from Authentic Models for the nightstands. Inside the boys room, I went with a beach cabana table lamp and a plain black pole lamp, and made the entire room with a seaside theme, based all around the cool table lamp. With yellows and blues, the boys room seems like its outside, and always waiting to have to wipe sand off your feet when you go in or out. They adore it, because I've hung up framed beach scenes and maps. They have their towels hanging from decorative hooks right in the room, and any SpongeBob things fit right in.

For my bedroom, I made a choice to go with an AM USA lighthouse nautical lamp. They've more muted colors compared to what I put within the boys' room, which allowed me to play with bamboo, sand-colors and grays and blacks. Our bedroom is a bit more subtle and discerning than the my sons', but still has really good lighting for reading or for getting dressed, lacking the overhead ugliness that made up the lights in there beforehand.

When it came to my main living room, we all collaberated and came up with an antique silver tripod floor lamp, and two oil lamps for the side tables. The boys love the atmosphere of all the lights, above all the concept of filling the oil lamps before using them plus the way they burn. The decor allows a happy fit with these options, the whole house tying into the nautical theme easily. The lighting itself isn't overhead, is more muted because of the lower-watt bulbs, and the oil lamps certainly impart a softer glow that is often rather complementary to both people and settings.

The chrome accents on the silver tripod lamp match well with the transition from family room to kitchen, where all my chrome appliances and kitchen objects appear to marry to the design well. I've got some seashell accents inside the kitchen, with grass mat wallpaper and bright colored bowls and plates, and it all works.

I'm so pleased I decided to go with a nautical theme for my little place at the lake. It is able to go in a lot of directions, and presented me the flexibility to get creative.