Summer House Living Room Design

After a long winter, it's incredibly nice to be able to go to your
summer house and "open" it for the season. One of the first
considerations you may have is how your summer house living room
should be designed. You're not looking for the same type of coziness
that you have at home. You want something that's still conducive to
family, but will encourage warm breezes and long walks on the beach,
not long stays indoors.
Whether you will visit this home on weekends throughout the warm
season, or if it will become a semi-permanent home, the living room is
a space that's important to family and also important for
entertaining. The living room is probably the second most used rooms
of the house, the first being the kitchen, of course. This room will
be where guests will be entertained and families will come together
when they're not out playing on the beach.
A wonderfully freeing addition to a summer living room is the use of
bead board on the walls. This adds to the cottage type atmosphere that
you're looking to create. The walls should either be painted a stark
white that would contrast nicely with the wood grains of the trim
around the doorways and along the floors, or they should be painted a
light color such as field green or sky blue. A summer house living
room should give the feel of being outdoors even when stuck in the
house on a rainy day. These colors will help create that look and feel
within your living room....

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