Emerald Coast Licensed Interior Designer, Cara McBroom

This is a unit I designed in Seagrove Beach, Florida.  Although the finishes in this unit are very streamlined and contemporary, the owners wanted give it more of a beach cottage feel.  I accomplished this by using natural, textural finishes, distressed & painted woods, linens, glass, and the colors of water.  I wanted to really bring the outside in with my materials, and make the feeling more casual, while still giving homage to the “clean” feeling of the modern finishes.   

I designed the sheers in the Living Room  to be non-fussy by making them ripplefolds that have minimal stack-back and no pleats.  While doing this keeps the sheers looking simple and modern, I feel that the gauzy linen fabric and breezy feel of them keep with the oceanside cottage concept.  Modern art mixed with natural linen slip-covered furniture and recycled wood cocktail  table create a nice juxtaposition. 

In the Master Bedroom, I used a Lexington Long Cove king bed.  I accented it with a black antique table from Sarreid, Ltd. and a beautiful inlaid bedside chest from Lexington Furniture.  For the bedding, I used easy-maintenance washable mattelasse coverlet and shams, and an ice blue comforter folded at the foot.  To help dress the look up, I had a long body pillow made out of a black & cream Schumacher fabric, with wood bead trim on the sides.  The large blue horizontal stripe in the ripplefold drapes is reminiscent of the ocean’s horizon.

Extra storage was provided with this beautiful serpentine front black and wood stain Interlude chest.  The global views mirror helps to emulate the line & movement of the serpentine front chest, the curved shape of the headboard and the carvings in the antique bedside table. 

The superior finishes in the Master Bathroom left little to be done in the way of decorating.  I simply added a square piece of art which followed the proportions of the wall, some prints with mirrored frames on the wall leading into the room, and some clean white towels.     

In this room, I found two antique doors at the antique store, and had them mounted as a queen headboard.  This was a fairly inexpensive, unique and unexpected replacement for the typical queen headboard.  The puddled linen sheers and bedskirt add to the relaxed, cottage-inspired design.  Simple linen duvet and shams are accented with brightly-colored Koko Bedding pillows. 

The third bedroom was multi-functional, and served as a media room, as well as sleeping quarters.  Because the room is so small, I wanted to create the appearance of windows with the tall mirrors.  This helped give the room the illusion of visual space and depth.  The daybed provided a place to lounge and watch television or play video games.  The pull-out trundle underneath the daybed gave and extra sleeping opportunity.  The blues, which are typical throughout the rest of the unit, were livened with the use of bright reds and greens.  The original art over the daybed reminded the client of her two children, as well as the “village life” pillows from Company C, which had children embroidered onto the fronts. 

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