An Ocean Oasis

As winter closes in, well winter in California is more like spring, I get the incredible urge to spend more time indoors and collect do-it-yourself projects like a squirrel collecting nuts. My latest accomplishment is the completion of our ocean oasis themed family room which has been an excessive labour of love and hate. I am a little tinsy bit of a perfectionist. If that color is a bit off or the tones are not quiet in line with the big picture I have in the plan my little hands reach out to tear it to shreds so I can eradicate it from the rest of the room before it infects everything with its blatant imperfection and preserve the harmonious feel I am trying to achieve. My roadmap in areas of shopping for things in the room is the mood board that I created after much deliberation. First I like to pour over volumes and volumes of sample rooms and choose something that speaks to you. For me because I love the beach and Mr. Rogue and I love fall colors we are doing a fall ocean beach theme. The thing with themes is that they always seem to meld. So taking your inspiration theme you choose the primary, secondary, and tertiary colors - I like to use Behr’s paint, here are the colors I choose:

http://www.behr.com/behrx/act/view/shop Click on the Smart Color tutorial. Once those are picked and you find a tile color swatch the same color as your floors and gather sample bits of any tile in the room you have a good idea of where and what tones to match when you are shopping.


MY MOOD BOARD OF MATERIALS AND COLOR INSPERATIONS

We bought the couch and tables at Wickes furniture, the rugs at Bed Bath and Beyond, and I decided to make my own curtains because I couldn’t find ANYTHING on the internet or in stores that was even close to the quality and size that I wanted. Here is the finished room.