Click through the jump for some major beach bathroom inspiration!
I find most "theme" bathrooms to be unforgivably hokey, but there's something about a beach theme that just seems so soothing and appropriate--I wouldn't even mind if these bathrooms were nowhere near the beach! Who knows? Maybe it's the association bathrooms already share with water that makes beach-inspired decor so effective in the bathroom. Or maybe I'm just a sucker for shells and beach glass colors. Either way, I'm going gaga for these pretty bathrooms.
What do you think? Do you have a beach-inspired bathroom far from the coast? Or do you think this style bathroom is best in it's natural habitat--the beach? Let us know!
Image Credits: ArchZine, The Lennoxx, Scott Dunn, OMG C.O.B., Little Emma English Home, House to Home UK, Decor Pad, Coastal Living Magazine, Country Living Magazine, A Few Fancy Things
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Nice -- I can almost smell the salty air!
I usually hate the whole shell, look at me I live by the beach theme (its overdone in Hawaii) but some of these are really great.
Generally shells are a b**** to dust though.
Digging the clam vessel sink.
If someone will sponsor me by buying me a house on the beach in Hawaii, I'll report back!
these are quite fab. living in the city there is always that beach living attraction that i subscribe to. these posts left me waiting to see the water!!!
If a dried starfish gets wet, it will be smelly. (My grandmother found this out the hard way.)
leapkate, you made me smile
I live not on the beach but a mere 5 minute drive away and I do love it. The bad thing is the cost of living here. Housing, food, gas are all thru the roof but for someone who grew up here, it's worth it. Whenever I've been away for more than a month for business, I get withdrawels.
Agreed on liking #7, calming for sure.
Number one has to be owned by someone with a housekeeper, or two. All those shells, dust and water is a recipe for a dirty sticky messy job.
The mirror in number 9 is twitch inducing.
Love the second one! I wish there was a source list for that one.
We are about to move to a townhouse that is a 2 min walk to the beach, though again not on it, so I am seriously thinking of coastal inspirations, thank you for giving me some!
the mirror in #9 just gave me ideas for matching the pinkish tiles in my bathroom with a shell mirror rather than just wishing they were white!
My husband's grandmother refused to let him bring sea shells into their house when he was a kid. She told him it was because they would bring bad luck into the house. She'd been raised out in the country in Cuba, but I wonder if her real objection was that shells may disintegrate, shed sand, and smell fishy.
While I generally like the look of sea shells, I feel bad that their species are threatened by overcollection. The shiny, perfectly complete shells were live-caught and killed just for the shells' market value as knick knacks. The worn, broken, faded shells died of natural causes after reproducing over a full life span, and their emptied shells were collected afterward. Those don't sell well.