Beach Huts At West Wittering Beach

One of the most popular beaches to visit is local to our Showroom in Ford, West Sussex. West Wittering Beach near Chichester, West Sussex has a gorgeous sandy beach with what has been described as excellent water quality. So if you are in the area visiting or planning on heading to the beach why not visit our New England Lifestyle Furniture Showroom. The Coastal views may have inspired you to redecorate using coastal style and with our Stylish White Painted New England  Furniture at such fantastic value.

You can really bring your ideas to life because there is something to suit all fashions of the moment, the nautical style of the beach has influenced many home’s decor,  and has become popular from magazine articles and glossy spreads such as those that can be found in Ideal Home Magazine or Homes and Gardens.

The coastal or nautical style creates a fresh look that by using breezy blue and white stripes, neutral flooring and seaside inspired accessories can be easily achieved, any room can be transformed into a summer bolt hole! By using an abundance of accessories, from display jars filled with shells and pebbles to lanterns, model boats and boat prints you add the finishing touches to your home interior.

Coastal Style Living from Ideal Home

Coastal homes make the most of their stunning views, often having vast windows or french doors causing the outdoors to feel like an extension of the inside space, and allowing light to flood into the room.

Coastal style homes are full of character, interesting details, personal touches and make good use of natural elements.

If you close your eyes and conjure up an image of a sunny breezy day on the beach, what colours come to you? The blues, greens and turquoises of the sea, the natural shades of sand, shells and grasses? The bright blue sky with white fluffy clouds? Textured wooden groins and slighlt faded deck chairs?

All of these elements feature in a Coastal Style Room. The casual comfort pictured right features crisp white tongue and groove walls combined with natural floor coverings and a splash of fresh coastal blue on the rug and cushions.

The New England Coffee Table (pictured) combines bright white legs with warm natural oak, helping to hold various elements of the room together and keeping the space airy and inviting. For even more of a natural feel, choose the driftwood inspired Provence Coffee Table and combine with a rustic rattan armchair or two.

A New England Style Shelving Unit would look stunning on the wall of such a room – perfect to display your seaside finds of shells and pieces of driftwood. The Manhattan Shelving Unit perfectly fits the bill.

For more inspiration from your favourite Home Interiors Magazines, be sure to visit the House To Home website.

The Cape Cod Beach Style has been one of designers favourite looks for a number of years. It is a look for the home taking inspiration from the textures and shades that can be found along the shores and from coastal living itself. The seaside look does not have to be just cool and classy with expensive ornaments and paintings but is extremely versatile. The New England White Furniture’s versatility fits in with the theme without needing to use more distressed furniture, the crisp white furniture goes well with the natural beauty of shells and driftwood that are a favoured embellishment in many homes and often are added as accessories, enhancing upon the coastal theme.

The New England Manhattan Console Table fits in without the need to use more rustic furniture when you are aiming for a beach style look.

White furniture can enhance natural light within your home

A room can be transformed hugely by the natural light that coastal colours of aqua blues, sea greens and oyster greys bring reflecting a watery look. If you are lucky enough to live by the coast you will know that one of the main attractions of living by the sea is the luminosity of light rarely encountered living inland.

The Westport Bookcase also makes an attractive Display Case

The soft hues of sands and neutral tones of pebbles along the beach have influenced the wonderful colours used within interior design choices of a coastal style or beach house theme. The Westport Bookcase is another stylish way to display nautical or coastal accessories and there is also The Wesport Single Bookcase for a smaller space, either of these Bookcases would make for an attractive and eye-catching focal point,  you could even have a wall hanging or coastal art displayed over the bookcase, a fabric wall hanging can add depth and texture. When you are choosing your fabrics or soft furnishings to go with the Cape cod effect or beachy coastal theme, you really are better to go with hard wearing materials, textures like rough wool and embroidered rope on cushions.  For floor coverings, wicker accessories can fit in with the look especially teamed with a canvas rug on a flagstone floor, or for flooring in the bedroom, whitewash style deck floorboards can be left bare but adding a sea grass  or natural fibre mat is a lovely finishing touch. For more idea’s of how to achieve some of the looks suggested we recommend the book ‘Coastal Style‘ by Sally Hayden and Alice Whatley.

Coastal Style by Sally Hayden & Alice Whatley

Are you looking for a little inspiration for a Coastal Style Interior Design scheme? We can thoroughly recommend Coastal Style by Sally Hayden and Alice Whately.

Featuring more than 200 photographs by sensational British Photographer Paul Massey, this book is sure to inspire you whether your home is located by the coast or you are simply looking to create the light and breezy style decor.

Offering practical and stylish advice along the way, the book takes you on a tour of coastal themed rooms from around the world. Explaining the need for open design to encourage minimal barriers between outdoors and indoors, Sally Hayden and Alice Whately cover all aspects of decorative seaside style in a room-by-room guide to seaside chic. The beautiful photographs show you how to select simple furniture styles to echo the natural beaty of the surf and sand.

Coastal Style is a magnificent celebration of simple shore-side life. Whether you are looking for interior design ideas or just a beautiful coffee table book that you will want to flick through time and time again, this book really is a great choice!

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Entries for the 2010 Beach Hut of the Year competition are already flooding in – have you entered yours yet?!! The winners will not be decided until later in the year, but the current entries can be viewed on the competition’s website where you can rate the beach huts your self – it really is worth a look!

There are four categories for the 2010 competition:

Best Kept Hut

Best Beach Hut Design

Best Beach Hut Name

Beach Hut ‘Hero’

There are an estimated 23,000 beach huts in the UK, most of which can be found on the south and east coasts of England. There are lots of beach huts to be found at various beaches near to our West Sussex Showroom, including those pictured at Littlehampton Beach!

It is known that purpose built beach huts – a development of the 18th century bathing machines – were in use at Felixstowe, Suffolk in 1895 although due to the their very nature and situation it is very unlikely than any of those will have survived until today! The first municipal huts were built by Bournemouth Corporation in 1908, and their original design is little changed today. If you are planning a holiday to Bournemouth, why not visit Bournemouth Beach Hut Rentals and hire one out for yourself?!

If you are lucky enough to own your own beach hut, cool coastal colours are a must! Our New Harbour Outdoor Chairs and matching New Harbour Ourdoor Side Table would not only look great outside your beach hut on a glorious summer’s day, they are so comfy – just the thing for a relaxing day at the seaside!

If like us you are in love with the seaside, you will love flicking through Coast Magazine; always full of great articles, locations and coastal style.

Writing in the Press and Journal, Gabrielle Fagan looks at key trends for home interiors in 2010.

Amongst trends such as Spring Greens, Flower Power and Monochromatic Magic, Gabrielle writes that Coastal Style is definately a look for 2010.

“A relaxed coastal look will be ultra-fashionable,” says Marnie Janaway, head of home design for Sainsbury’s.

“The allure of the sea is strong this year, with all things nautical in vogue. Refresh a home with an airy Hamptons beach house palette of tranquil blues and understated neutrals.

“Cool cottons, natural rattans, galvanised metals and folk-inspired patterns can be easily mixed and matched across different rooms of the home, from bedroom to bathroom.”

So why not modernise your home by painting your walls and floorboards white and adding New England Style white painted furniture? Complete the holiday home look by adding accessories such as cushions, blinds and curtains in sea blue shades.

Add a set of Beach Hut Money Boxes, and you’ll even have somewhere to save for next year’s holiday!

West Wittering Beach

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Holidays by the sea conjure up images of idylic living, fresh and clean sunlight interiors. Think white wooden floorboards, fresh painted walls and clean bright furnishings.

For the bedroom, our Manhattan Range of white painted bedroom furniture immediately makes me think of being by the seaside in the summer. The tongue and groove detailing, clean lines, and fresh white finish reminds me of a holiday time, of fun times spent splashing around in the sea under the warm sun.

For the seating area or conservatory, the Hampton Coffee Table with its planked top is a must, combined with a couple of comfortable white seats in which to just relax and enjoy the ambiance.

Whether the walls are simply painted in fresh white, or cladded with white painted tongue and groove panels, our wall flag can make it seem as though you are on the other side of the world.

Beach House Style Room

Use neutral wooden flooring to create a time worn feel, and use a piece such as our tongue and grooved white blanket box as a coffee table, but which can double up as living room storage.

Add a white painted bookcase to display books and beachcomber finds.

Use a white or linen covered sofa, and add in breezy stripes with a throw, cushions or window blind using any Ian Mankin fabrics.

Nautical accessories such as a carved wooden boat,  tall white lighthouse, or carved wooden fish complete the look. Who needs luxury cruises when you can bring the ocean into your home?!