Morgan is passionate about home decor and paint colors. She has been sharing DIY home decor tips since 2012 at CharlestonCrafted.com. From there, she learned to love paint colors, and the Paint Color Project was born in 2022!
The Best Coastal Paint Colors for a Beachy Vibe
Do you love the feeling of sitting in a chair, drink of choice in hand, staring across the sand into the deep blue ocean?
Whether you live at the beach or just want a beachy aesthetic at home, you can give your home a coastal feel with the right paint colors.
Decorating with shades of blues, greens, and tans can help to easily transform your space into a coastal heaven.
Let’s dive into the best paint colors for a beachy vibe!
It’s very important to swatch colors on your wall to be sure they look good – day and night – in your actual space before committing.
The best coastal paint colors
The most popular beach house paint colors are light blue, light green, sandy neutrals, and creamy white.
A coastal color palette also might have accent colors that are coral pink, sunny yellow, and navy blue.
Let’s dive into each color family to see some of my favorite coastal house colors!
Light Blues and Aquas
Light blues and aquas are a classic choice for coastal decor. This is because they remind you of nature – the summer sky and the flowing ocean.
Plus, shades of blue are naturally calming and relaxing to surround yourself with, making them the perfect beach house colors!
When choosing a blue paint color, I always suggest looking at blue-gray shades. They are more muted and won’t look neon or too “baby boy blue” on the walls.
Some of the best blue beach paint colors are:
- Sherwin Williams Icy
- Sherwin Williams Sea Salt
- Sherwin Williams Tradewind
- Benjamin Moore Morning Sky Blue
- Benjamin Moore Harbor Fog
- Behr Light French Gray
- Behr Light Drizzle
- Farrow & Ball Lulworth Blue
Coastal Color Ideas | Timeless Paint Color Schemes & Palettes from the Beach, Shore & Sea
No matter what the color trend, we turn to the sea, shore and the beach when looking for room color schemes, Decor Palettes and paint color ideas.
The ocean and the beach are an open space of beautiful colors and textures. The sea is an ever changing play of blues and crisp whites, rolling up to a beige or white sandy beach, a pebble beach, or a rocky shore. And along with it, all kinds of treasures wash up, most commonly Seashells, Driftwood, and Seaglass providing infinite inspiration for color schemes and color palettes.
If you turn to the shore and the beach for room color palettes and color schemes, you don’t have to figure out which colors work together. Color combinations made by nature are always perfect and timeless!
Shop Beach & Coastal Photo Prints
Coastal Decor Guide
Beautiful ocean blues, such as aqua, turquoise and teal. Via This Bugs Life.
Ocean Beach Photo from Great Big Canvas
Focal Point Ocean Art
The ocean offers an infinite color palette with an infinite number of room color scheme ideas in hues of blues and greens, combined in a way that captures the feeling you want. From dramatic to subtle. You can draw the colors from your own photograph or from a Photographic Ocean Print.
Coastal Color Schemes
Ride a wave of inspiration with hues like Loyal Blue SW 6510, Impromptu SW 6955 and Liquid Blue SW 6779.
