Nautical

The Nautical style in interior design is penetrated with air and light. It does not matter what room to integrate it in: whether it’s bathroom tiled with blue and white colors, a bedroom with a striped bedcover or the living room decorated with curtains in the marine style. Any room of contemporary design coordinates perfectly with nautical elements. Even classic interior may look harmonious having  elements in a truly nautical style. Can Nautical and Coastal be considered the same in terms of interior design? The answer is no. Nautical goes back to the times of pirates and royal expeditions while Coastal style looks more appropriate in the countryside and allows the imagination to go further than the classic blue colour and natural finishes.

How to Create a True Nautical Style at Home

Surprisingly, Nautical style in  interior design does not have any time-frame and or even period of human history when it would have appeared and became widely used. It is known that Nautical or Marine have been in fashion in the 30s of the previous century though, and ever since, men and women can’t stop expressing their love for this style. Interior design has a different history. Such elements in the interior like anchors, mirrors-illuminators, wheels, hammocks, chests, compasses, etc. The Nautical style is never out of trend, so once made it will always bring joy and keep its freshness.

There some key elements in the interior design that help to create a Nautical style:

• colors of the sea: all colors and shades of blue, solid colors on the walls, curtains, bedcovers, and cushions, or stripes;
• decorative elements of sea-life: corrals, shells, and ships, hourglass, jellyfish.;
• natural finishes for all the surfaces: from the floor and wardrobe up to the lighting;
• natural materials: dark wood on the floor, all types of wood for the furniture and metal base for the lighting;
• natural fabric for the upholstery: preferably linen and cotton;
• the best types of lighting are wall lamps, sconces, and uplights;

The golden rule of creating the Nautical style at home lies in balance, i.e. not all at once. The main idea is to keep the right correlation between white and blue while the decoration must be very limited.

Lighting and Furnishings in the Nautical Style

Lighting has such a unique feature to complement the existing style or create it immediately. All types of lanterns look good in such a style: pendant, floor, wall or table alike. They obey the same rules in terms of the materials and finish as the furniture and even the upholstery - natural colors and lightness above all.

To make the right choice with the lighting and be confident about the result, the lamps in the Nautical style are distinguished in separate sections. Moretti Luce, Dialma Brown, and Beaumont & Fletcher know very well how to get the desired result. Their lamps have all those characteristics necessary for Nautical style design:

• the shape reminds or perfectly corresponds to the ship’s bell or a lantern;
• materials used: brass, glass, burnished iron, and wood;
• finish for the base: dark brown burnished brass, old nickel, burnished or aged brass;
• finish for the lampshade: glass matt white, opal or transparent;
• decorative elements: helm rope and carving;

Mirror-illuminators were popular in the past, but today they can be easily replaced with luxury items like a mirror in the admiral Nelson style, such as the one Beaumont & Fletcher offers. This is a unique piece of furnishing decorated with rope all the way around. The means by which to customize the mirror is to choose the color of the rope - out of a total of 50. No doubt, together with the lamp in the Nautical style, such an element can become a central statement in the whole interior.