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| DIY | Bringing The Beach In

Firstly, sorry for the lack of posts the past few months. I lost my mojo for a little while, but hopefully I will be getting back on track now! 

There's nothing more relaxing than being by the sea. Unfortunately, I live at least an hours drive to the coast, so I have to make the beach come to me! 

I've always loved nautical themed interiors- particularly in the bathroom. Luckily mine is predominantly white inside, so it provided me with a lovely blank canvas in which to create my beachy haven. 

Of course you can quite easily go overboard (excuse the pun!) with any kind of theme, and it can soon just look messy and let's be honest, a bit naff! If you can still keep it simple, but introduce some nautical touches, you can't go wrong. The main problem with my little bathroom was the lack of storage. I was so sick of cluttering up the edges of my bath with bottles of shampoo and shower gel. We did end up fitting a white floating shelf a while back, but it was both too modern and impractical for our needs. I knew that we needed another shelf but I didn't like anything in the shops. 

My Dad has always been extremely talented with woodworking, and is currently setting up a wooden furnishings business, so I went to him with an idea in my head and he worked his magic! Some of the design I had in mind was tweaked by him along the way to improve the overall look, and I could not be happier with it.



It has 3 roomy shelves, and an added smaller one at the bottom (where I tend to keep smaller things like toothpaste, floss etc). With the shelf made, I wanted to paint it a colour that would fit in with the seaside vibe. I considered just painting it white, but it would have looked lost against the white wall, and blue was another obvious colour choice but I didn't want it to be too blue as it wouldn't have looked right. I was after a muted blue/grey colour and I eventually found the perfect shade in Farrow & Ball's "Parma Blue". Along with the wooden cladding at the back of the shelves, it really does feel nautical. The paint definitely wasn't cheap at £24.00 for 750ml, but I ended up using 4 coats on the shelf and I had only just used half of the tin. I'm impressed by the colour and finish, and I wouldn't hesitate to use their paint again. 

Next came the finishing touches! I found an amazing smelling sea salt candle from Homesense which was around £5.00, the seahorse statue was £3.99 from The Range, the boat was a gift from my sister (genuinely from the seaside in Cornwall!) and the little blue sign was from Sass & Belle for £2.50!


I have another 2 items to still add to the bathroom now, and then I will class the bathroom as finally complete! 

I'm currently drawing up plans for a wooden bath caddy (as featured on almost all interior blogger's Instagram pages!) and also an under the sink storage cupboard for towels, toiletries etc. 

I will keep you updated as everything progresses! 


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