The sea is a mysterious and incomprehensible, enchanting and unpredictable element that attracts us with its special beauty and mysterious peace. Maybe that's why Marine interior design style has become so popular and an increasing number of people, are trying to transfer a piece of the sea to their home when they renovate their apartment.
With all the variety of existing styles, the marine theme hasn’t lost its relevance, due to its lightness and flexibility. After all, without making any special efforts or financial investments, you can bring some sea breeze into your interior.
Y can decorate both an entire apartment and individual rooms in Marine style and, believe me, this will be quite enough to plunge into the atmosphere of freshness, tranquility and harmony from time to time.
Sea symbolism is ambiguous in all its diversity, in this case it all depends on your imagination and attitude, but the color scheme is quite stable and does not tolerate any deviations. Traditional Marine style colors (blue, light blue, beige, white, turquoise) are combined with light wood furniture, as well as natural or artificial stone finishing.
Traditionally, Marine style is used, of course, in a bathroom. Decorating such bathroom is not difficult. Use bright blue or light blue tile, paint the ceiling sky blue, and blow snow-white clouds over it. And there will be freshness is the air of your bathroom.
A mosaic picture will for sure look the best in a bathroom decorated in a nautical theme. It can be a ship, a seagull, a dolphin, or just some fancy fish. Complement your bathroom with a chic mirror covered with pebbles, shells and pearl-like beads.
Also, the overall look can be complemented by a light curtain with the image of marine life, a rich blue towel with some kind of marine pattern. Do not though overuse the accessories in such a small area, otherwise your bathroom can turn into an exhibition and lose the feeling of spaciousness.
Marine theme is also successfully used in a living room. Natural materials and blue and white marine colors create a light, relaxed and romantic atmosphere. Blue as the sea and white as clouds, a living room will look spacious and bright, and a wall imitating stonework will only enhance this effect. In this case, light, as if burnt-out, wooden and wicker furniture will complement the marine environment. If the furniture you have does not fit, do not be discouraged, a sofa covered with a milky white or blue bedspread with dark blue pillows will look no less impressive. A blue and white striped bedspread would also be a good choice.
It is believed that the floor in such room should not attract attention. Well, why not? Instead of a simple light beige carpet, lay multi-colored carpet tiles on the floor. It can be a combination of two, three or more colors, it all depends on your preferences. Of course, no room will look complete without the right accessories. The underwater world can be recreated in glass vases or other containers. For this, various shells, pebbles brought from travels are suitable.
Place a candle in the decoration with sea sand - you will get a beautiful stylized lamp. An unusual composition can be created by hanging shells and large beads from a chandelier on thin threads. Of course, the most spectacular addition to Marine style in your living room will be an aquarium. Each of us at least once in our lives felt the desire to decorate our home with a piece of another element enclosed in glass. It will come in especially handy in this case.
The ideal option would be to place a marine aquarium with tropical fish, stars and shrimps in it, or you can also make your freshwater aquarium look like a marine aquarium using artificial plants and various accessories. You can put discus and lionfish there, and they, with their beauty and grace, will one up any of the most beautiful marine fish; and multi-colored fresh shrimps also look just as good.
Marine theme in children's rooms is very popular today, and a huge variety of furniture with fittings in a form of crabs, shrimps, fish, starfish and other sea inhabitants has appeared on the market.
The variety of themed textiles amazes. Curtains and children's bedding with drawings of marine life will make your child's room a real underwater fairy-tale world. You can hang collages, made by your child from various shells and pebbles, on walls. Children's fish drawings will also look very cute. Various soft and rubber toys, whether it's a dolphin or an octopus, will faithfully protect your baby's night sleep.
One can design a whole apartment in Marine style, if that’s what they desire, however the best solution would be to style a bedroom or kitchen. It would be more appropriate to place only some accents around. In a bedroom, for example, bed linen with a picture of seagulls will look very romantic, and wooden plank frames, looking as if they were brought with the waves, and personal photographs or images of seascapes, will remind you of unforgettable moments of your vacation.
Brown and blue colors will be a perfect combination for a kitchen, and a snow-white tablecloth with “seafood” images on it will emphasize the main idea you have chosen. Dishes can complete the whole picture in the same way. Decorating your apartment in Marine style, forget about everyday life for a while, use all your imagination, create your own atmosphere full of air, freshness, space and freedom.
