Hello World! Welcome Friends! Have you recently bought a lakeside home? If you haven’t you might want to check out some of the Tellico Lake homes for sale, because a lakeside home offers levels of fun, peace and contentment never experienced before. If you have, then you are one of the lucky ones. Here are 10 lake house decor ideas to help you make it feel like home. A lake house is more than a home. It’s a place for family gatherings, summer memories, and time to relax on the water while soaking up the sun.
Because of this, decorating a lake house takes on an extra element. You want to encompass all those feelings, and its lake location, into a warm, comfortable getaway.
To help get you started, let’s look at 10 lake house decor ideas to spark your design inspiration.
1. Keep Unobstructed Views
Lakeside living is all about those views! Whether your home looks out onto the water or has views of the surrounding nature, you want to keep it front and center to your decor. Keep windows and doors free of drapes and window coverings when possible. If you have to put something up, make sure it’s something you can open completely to keep the full view. Also, try to position furniture facing the windows. It would be a shame to waste any time looking at your view when your back is facing it instead.
2. Make It Light and Bright
When you’re at the lake, life feels fun and carefree. Spread that feeling throughout your lake house by keeping the colors light and bright. Whites, creams, light blues, and greens help reflect light and bounce it around the room. Plus, it accentuates the colors of the lake, making it feel more like a lake house and that you’re on vacation. Be sure to pick one color as your main one, using one or two others as accents. One good thing about using light neutrals is that they go with any decor style you choose.
3. Add Wood Elements
Being at the lake is all about getting back to nature. Bringing wood elements into your lake house decor will give it a rustic, natural environment that feels like you’re still in the great outdoors. You can get that woodsy feeling through exposed wood beams, rough paneling or wainscoting, distressed wooden doors, and reclaimed barn wood pieces. The good thing about adding wood is you can bring as much or as little in as you like. The more you add, the more rustic it will feel. But even a few touches of wood elements will give your lake house the warm feeling of nature. Of course, it might be that your lakeside home is a log cabin, in which case, you’ve got plenty of wood in place already – just remember you’ll need experts like Log and Timber to maintain it so it stays looking good.
4. Bring the Outdoors In
While you’ll be spending the majority of your time out by the lake, there’s no reason you can’t still have the feeling of being outdoors by bringing it in with you. Decorate your lake house with flowers and plants you clip from your own yard. Use grass cloth coverings to warm up your walls. And hang framed pictures or art of your lake’s beautiful features. Screened patios and sunrooms are another way of feeling like you’re outside while still enjoying some of the benefits of being indoors. Especially if it’s a room that gives you 180 degrees of those gorgeous lake views.
5. Open Kitchen Shelves
Colors aren’t the only way to keep your lake house decor feeling light and bright. Create an airy kitchen with open shelving. There’s no need for big, bulky upper cabinets when you’re at the lake. Most of the time you only need the essentials anyway, so the extra storage isn’t necessary. Take out the cabinets and decorate open shelves with dishware and plants for added greenery. If you can’t part with all your cabinets, only put open shelving over the sink or around the stove instead.
6. Reflect Your Views
Don’t let a single wall of windows be the only view you have of the lake. Use mirrors to get a glimpse from any angle. Place mirrors on a wall that will reflect the view. Not only will it double your scenic surroundings, it will bounce more light around the room. Rooms on the other side of the house don’t have to miss out on the views either. Take pictures of your favorite lake angles and hang those pictures in rooms where views aren’t possible.
7. Use Your Surroundings as Inspiration
When you were hunting for lake homes for sale, you were sure to pick a house that is surrounded by natures beauty. Use that to your decorating advantage by drawing inspiration from it. If you’re in an area that sees lots of autumn colors, decorate with a few hues of reds, yellows, golds, or oranges. If the area is woodsier, use shades of brown and green. If your house is located near a mountain lake, a rustic cabin theme will blend well into your surroundings.
8. Nautical Touches
Nautical decor isn’t only for ocean beach homes. Ditch the dolphins and seashells for more lake nautical touches. Hang distressed boat oars as wall art. Add duck figurines to bookcases. Nautical striped rugs, lantern light fixtures, and rope shelves also do the trick. And if you enjoy lake fishing, antique fishing rods make great nautical decor. You can also display your biggest catch on a plaque.
9. Add Your Personality
You want your home to feel like a lake house, but that doesn’t mean it should be stuck in one type of decor. When you’re adding lake house touches, don’t be afraid to mix in your own personal style as well. If you like funky furniture, pair it with white walls and wood elements. If Victorian antiques are more your style, mix them in with lake nautical antiques and rustic touches. Your lake house should not only reflect its surroundings, but it should feel like home as well. Adding your own style gives it a comfortable feeling that’s all your own.
10. Create Outdoor Living Spaces
You love your lake house, but what you really bought it for was to be out by the water. That’s why creating outdoor living spaces gives you the best of both worlds. Build a deck or patio, placing outdoor furniture on it for an easy hangout. A picnic table or outdoor dining set by the water makes for dinners with a beautiful view. Adding folding doors to your house will let you open up your house, blurring the line between indoor and outdoor living.
Create a Stylish Oasis with Lake House Decor
Life really is better at the lake. And with these lake house decor tips, your home will turn into a warm, inviting place that welcomes friends and family in for years of special lake memories to come.
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Gorgeous inspiration! I love the rooms! The Lake House look is so relaxing. This makes me want to take a few days off to go to the lake. Thank you for sharing this valuable information. These blogs will really help me in improving my decor.
These are all wonderful ideas! A friend of mine has a house up in Big Bear Lake that they’re trying to remodel, so some of these tips would be amazing! Thanks so much!
Furniture is one of the most common home décor options that people choose to upgrade when they choose to redecorate their home. There are a lot of new styles of home furniture that you can choose from in order to redecorate your home in an amazing way!