16. Coastal California Breezy Workspace
Introduction
Light, airy, and refreshing, the Coastal California corner captures the casual sophistication of coastal living. It leans on whitewashed timbers, pale seafoam hues, bleached woods, and sheer curtains.
What This Idea Means
This style brings the relaxed calm of coastal oceans into your workspace, using pale wood, ocean blue tones, and bright open light to keep your mind refreshed.
How to Make It
- Use a bleached oak, driftwood, or distressed whitewashed wood desk.
- Position the desk beside a window dressed in flowing, sheer white linen curtains that flutter with the breeze.
- Add a ceramic desk lamp in a distressed ivory or sea-salt white finish with a linen shade.
- Mount framed coastal photographic prints featuring ocean swells, sand dunes, or sea salt textures.
- Place a white ceramic vessel filled with dried bleached sea oats or bunny tails on a corner riser.
Tips and Variations
- Tips: Keep the palette bright and crisp; use Benjamin Moore Simply White or similar warm whites on the surrounding walls.
- Variations: Add a light blue or seafoam linen desk mat to introduce subtle ocean color.
Materials Needed
- Bleached oak or whitewashed desk
- Sheer flowing linen curtains
- Textured white ceramic table lamp
- Framed ocean art prints in light wood frames
- Dried coastal sea oats in stoneware vase