Beach House Flooring Options for Great Vibes

Whether you are visiting for the weekend, staying for the summer or winter, or maybe lucky enough to call a beach home your permanent residence, everyone enjoys a relaxing trip to the coast. There’s nothing like the proximity to soothing waves, a gentle breeze, and soft sands underfoot to help us unwind from the fast pace of our daily lives. When designing the ultimate beach house, we aim to bring this sublime feeling indoors with subtle nods to the outdoors. The best coastal flooring for the beach house aesthetic captures the stylish and soothing nature of coastal design while standing up to sandy footprints and seashell collecting.

Here are some of our favorite beach house flooring ideas:

Wood Floors for Beach Homes

Weathered Woods: With natural, timeless character full of knots, grain, distressing and other markings, hardwood floors are a perfect fit for designing a relaxing coastal home. Harkening back to wooden piers, surfboards and even wood paneling on retro vehicles, a gorgeous wood floor can effortlessly fit this design scheme, while providing the perfect coastal flooring option. From light, airy sand-inspired hues like white, cream and beige, to medium and darker browns, wood is perfecting for adding a natural touch inside. The current popularity of a longer, wide plank is a great fit for showcasing even more unique character and rustic charm. This trend adds high fashion to your feel-good beach home layout as well.

Design by Laura Hay  Photography by Lisa Petrole

Beach House Vinyl Flooring

Laidback LVT: A great coastal flooring option, Luxury Vinyl Tile, or LVT, is one of the best flooring types for beach house living. If hardwood or natural stone would crunch your design budget, LVT can provide the realistic traditional, exotic or rustic looks of these flooring choices for much less and with great performance attributes. With lock system installation that is DIY-friendly, LVT installation is much cheaper, quicker and easier to repair if something goes wrong. Whereas genuine wood is not always the best fit for high moisture areas, especially if you have an active family that may bring water indoors, beach house vinyl flooring handles both high moisture and high traffic with ease. A style such as this grey wood-look luxury vinyl is engineered to lockout liquid with a ceramic-fused finish and comes with lifetime protection warranty. Now, that’s a worry-free vibe that all homeowners can get behind.

Coastal Floor Tile  

Totally Tile: When we think of flooring for a beach home, we want surfaces that are easy on the eyes and easy to maintain. Whether you prefer natural stone tiles, porcelain tile or ceramic tile, this timeless surface is cool, durable and a breeze to clean- just how a beach house should be! We love picking up fascinating seashells on the beach with a smooth texture and unique colors, and tile surfaces can produce the same effect. Maybe you want large stone tiles for a luxurious living room, tile for an outdoor patio with a pool, or coastal bathroom floor tiles fit for moisture to create a spa-like bathroom. You can use ceramic tile to create a unique backsplash in the kitchen or mimic a mosaic that you would see down on the boardwalk! Tile provides you with ample opportunity to create a custom feel that’s also completely coastal.

Design by Laura Hay  Photography by Lisa Petrole

Rugs for Beach Homes

Relaxing Rugs: No matter which flooring option you choose inside your beach home, adding stylish area rugs to fit your taste is a no-brainer. In addition to guarding your entrance-ways against sand and tracked-in debris, these rugs lend instant softness and warmth wherever added. You can opt for rugs that fit a coastal theme with patterns or graphics that feature motifs like seashells, waves or fish, or use more abstract designs that showcase a coastal color palette. Since we spend many hours at the beach barefoot, maybe you want a shag or textured cut pile rug to add the tactile experience indoors. Find multiple beach house rugs you love and rotate them throughout the seasons so that your coastal home always receives the appropriate design refresh.

Design by Laura Hay  Photography by Lisa Petrole

Since we cherish this heavenly slice of nature, it’s a great reminder to choose flooring options that can beautify our homes while keeping the planet in mind. For an eco-friendly wood look, consider installing sustainable bamboo flooring with the wood character and color that will match your desired layout. If you love to design with tile, recycled glass tiles will allow you to create with a seemingly endless array of colors and finishes to dazzling effect. Plus, glass tiles are perfect for reflecting the natural light from beautiful beach sunrises and sunsets. When it comes to purchasing area rugs, you can look for indoor/outdoor mats made from recycled materials and supremely soft rugs made from recycled PET polyester yarn.

Designing with the coast in mind doesn’t have to resemble a tourist trap. Think of your favorite memories of the beach and the colors that come to mind. Start with your favorite shades, and then think of the textures that you love the most. It’s always a safe bet to go for timeless over trendy, but you get to personalize this relaxing destination. Always remember that your décor you find such as rugs, framed pieces, pillows, and chairs can enhance the beachy theme if you want to keep the floors more neutral. When possible, pay it forward to the planet with environmentally=conscious products. And, as always, visit the professionals at Carpet One & Home to match the flooring of your dreams with your ultimate beach home vision!

Have questions? Our flooring experts are here to help you find the best flooring for your lifestyle. Contact one of our experts for advice, or explore the world of flooring with our flooring guide. It is the perfect tool for discovering flooring for your coastal getaway.