Beach House Paint Colors

• Paint your beach home to match your personality.beach house image by jimcox40 from Fotolia.com
  
  There are lots of paint options to consider when you're painting the interior and exterior of a beach house. Whether you opt for traditional beach house colors or a more contemporary theme, the end result can be just as effective.
  
  

Nautical Colors

• Create a jaunty, traditional nautical look inside your beach house by using blue and white paint. Paint the walls with pure white paint and highlight the woodwork and skirting boards in a royal marine shade of blue. To finish off the color scheme, use home accessories such as cushions, curtains and throws in matching blue and white striped designs.
  
  

Multicolored Pastels

• Choose paint in a range of pastel colors and adorn the interior and exterior walls of your beach house with an array of pastel shades. In beach homes that have wood paneling, this works particularly well, as you can paint each panel a different color. Alternatively, use one pastel color per wall or per room. Complement the look with matching flooring, fabrics and furniture.
  
  

Bold and Bright

• Use bold and bright colors, such as red, yellow, orange, green or cerise to create a stunning effect in your beach house. Pick a couple of favorite colors, or use a rainbow palette. Be creative and experiment with colors you may normally shy away from, as a beach house can be the ideal place to use bright colors. Paint the exterior of the beach house in colorful shades too, plus the front door, to create a cheery and welcoming look.
  
  

Natural Beach

• Bring the colors of the beach into your home, through the use of warm sandy shades. Choose one sandy color for the walls and a darker shade to add definition to the woodwork and skirting boards. Teamed with natural wood flooring and textured wall tiles, these colors will create the ambiance of the beach within the comfort of your own four walls.
  
  

Contemporary Colors

• Experiment with using contemporary paint colors, by choosing a palette of shiny metallic silver, matte silver and gray paints. Use matte silver or gray paint on the walls, adding accents with the shiny metallic silver. These colors will help create lots of light in your beach home and work very well alongside black or silver furniture and kitchen appliances.