Summery Coastal look for the Living Room - Part 1

Morning Sweet Friends,

How is your summer going so far??  

Course, it is not officially summer yet,  

but sure feels like it,  and if you have

 children out of school it is summer

 to you!!  lol 

 Right???

We had a quiet, relaxing and normal weekend and 

didn't do too much but rearrange the family room, and we

 are liking the change already, but I plan to change a few

 things but haven't gotten there yet, cause I also decided

 to decorate my white living room with a coastal look.

  Then I will take the things from the living room and

 transfer some of them to the family room.  The white

 living room was done for Spring with touches of pink

 for a change. If you would like to see the (Spring)

 before look

Just click here.  and Here.

Never did the living room with a coastal look before,  so

 thought it would be fun and would also go with this...........

Yep, your right,  it is a kiddie pool..............

We bought this cute lil pool for our lil darling for

her birthday thinking it would be oodles of fun

for her,  and it is inside the house,  she doesn't like

it near as well outside...........we have done it a

couple of times and she just doesn't seem all

that enthused.  Think if she maybe had a lil friend

or we could get in with her she would like it better,

course,  she is used to going to the beach and in

a real pool at her other Grampa's,  so that could

be it too,  but at least she is enjoying it,  even if

it is indoors,  so we just keep it in our living room

and she crawls in and out of it,  and we are still

playing with the Easter eggs too,  I put lil yogurt

treats in some of the eggs and she really enjoys

the search............lol

So with that said on with the summer coastal look

I am starting in the foyer and working my way

clockwise

Using an unembellished Christmas wreath that was still

 down, I put the sun and surf sign on it (used these on throw

 pillows the last time) added some star fish and clam looking 

shells and some dried blue hydrangeas and some shredded

 raffia to give it a sea grass look,  and this is the first thing

 you see

 when I open my front door.......

Then you see this lil girl who has a basket,

it did have a pretty pink hydrangea in her

basket for spring............

Then you see the whole cart,  guess it is suppose

to be for plants,  but I use it for other stuff.  lol

Added a white lantern with a blue candle and

shells......................

Here'a close up of her shell,  with some faux sea grass.  

When we found this lil girl statue at Cracker Barrel, 

 I just loved her..... and thought she reminded me of

 someone I knew, but couldn't figure out who.........and

 after I got her home, I realized she looked like me

 when I was little..........how is that for reminding you

of someone you know...........lol

Just loves these lanterns........they really look

great with a beachy look.

colored pencil and equalized affect.

This is the first table you come to when you enter

the living room,  keep most of my family photos here.

So added a yankee candle called Beach Walk and it

smells so wonderful.  Found this lil fish dish at Target

about 3 yrs. ago,  but thought he was so cute....and

had this tiny blue bead necklace,  so just draped it

around.

Also you will see these lil starfish condiment bowls

 incorporated in different vignettes.  Dee brought these to

 me when they went on a crusie to the Bahamas, 

 I think it was...........love them they are so cute..........

next to the table you just saw ( you can see the corner 

of it here on the left) is our sofa,  It is covered with a 

Matelasse white bed spread,  and a colored quilt that has a

 white side, so just flipped it over so it  would look nice with

 all the blue................the colored side has blues, pinks, greens

 and brown I think it is,  so it is colorful but in pastel tones.

 and of course, across from that is our hope chest turned

 coffee table,  which will be in Part 2 of this post next week.

This is my attempt to shorten my posts...........lol

Now this rooms makes me want to go to the beach, but

since we aren't going this year,  it will have to do.  So 

might find myself spending more time in this room 

than usual................lol

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 you come again soon..................and 

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as well................

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Love, Hugs and

Sun and Surf Blessings,

Nellie