Take a look at Southern Living’s 2009 Texas Idea House. With a consistent theme of light wood and fresh colors, this home is the epitome of beach-chic:

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The light bright living room with white, coral and light blue.

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A small colorful seating area behind the living room sofa

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The kitchen dining area has the same color theme as the living room.

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A light coastal kitchen with dark wood counters and polished marble tops. Citrus fruits works as both yum and decor!

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This loft is converted into a kids bunk!

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Fun playroom with colorful stripes on the wall and turquoise bean bags.

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White, grey and yellow does the trick in this coastal master bedroom.

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LOVE this bedroom to bathroom door solution! Slidin’! Oh, and there’s that bathroom chandelier again!

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See the rest of the photos from this beach-style home here!

Beach style home in dark wood, white and green, designed by none other than Phoebe Howard:

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Go to Mrs. Howard’s site to view more gorgeous designs! I urge you!

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This is one of the most beautiful homes I have ever seen! It is a waterfront home with a coastal theme. The color palette is based on a soft beige and crisp white, with different accent color separating the rooms.

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This living room is gorgeous! One white sofa, one blue and two beige recliners, all pulled together with same color theme cushions!

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Tall gorgeous windows. Open plan. The blinds fits in perfectly.

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In there is the master bedroom. This is the entry.

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Light and bright kitchen.

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Second view of kitchen dining area.

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Master bedroom in beige, white and green. Perfect.

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Master Bathroom in light blue and white.

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One of two guest bedrooms.

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Even the laundry room looks great!

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The entry. What a gorgeous art deco glass door!

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If you like what you see here, go check out this site, where you can view lots more pictures from this home, and if you really really like what you see, you can even BUY IT!!

Lets take a look at some pics from beachy- and nautical style homes in beige, white and mahogany:

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I think this room is really harmonic. The floor and most furniture is kept light (white), while the walls are beige. This simple color palette divides the room beautifully into two color zones, which are then pulled together again by accents of the opposite color, like a wooden (beige) chair in the ‘white zone’.

Pic from this site.

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A lovely dining room with a great ocean view. Classic furniture.

More info on this pic on this site.

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A beautiful bathroom.

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As there is a sailboat in bith the living room and dining room above, we include one here! You can get yourself a nice rustic sailboat here.

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You can get these decorative shells from here.

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Cute bedroom with natural fiber wallpaper, greige linen curtains and green palm leaf patterns.

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We keep it consistent in this lovely living room with greige linen sofa and table lamps. Love the green palm leaf cushions.

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This dining room is absolutely gorgeous! Just perfect! Light fogy green, dark wood and white.

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Beige wall, crisp white, dark wood and green!

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Super nice bathroom.

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I love this home, it is so whimsical and pulled together, at the same time!

Living room:

Natural fiber wallpaper is frequently used in this atmospheric home. Soft blue (turquoise) curtains with cream valances.

Second view of Living room:

Floral rug is cute.

Last angle from Living room:

Cute details!

Dining room:

Colors are consistent with the living room.

Bathroom:

Gorgeous! From the rock-wall to the fake candle-lamps to the spectacular sea shell sink!

Hall:

Look at those fantastic carvings! Larger than life, lol.

Master Bedroom:

Nice.

Cigar room:

Check out that old diving suit!

See a lot more pic’s from this beautiful house here.

There are so many ways to go with the bathroom, which makes it quite hard to pick your direction. The best way to go is to keep it consistent with the style in the rest of your house; you don’t want a country style bathroom in a super modern home… and now for some visual inspiration:

The Country:

The Beachy:

The Spa:

The Modern:

The Mellow:

The Harmonic:

The Natural:

The Old-timey:

If you didn’t find anything you like, you may check out my previous ‘HOT bathroom‘ post or browse by room in the category column to the right.