When my husband and I moved down south we decided to really spend some money on our beach house.
We have skimped and saved for years.
We are old, so why not buy what we actually want for once? For the first time in our lives we met with an interior designer. Rather than pick out anything cheap and easy to move, we had custom built furniture for our space. The bed was made to our exact heights and width. The couch was a little shorter and more shallow for our shorter heights. The dining room table is perfect for the space and the chairs are so comfortable. All the custom built furniture is of the highest quality and so comfortable. I like the design of the house best though. The interior designer tried to push a Contemporary Condo design on us. It looked too cold and clean to me. This was our beach house in the south. It should be fun! I settled on a Southwest design. The interior designer showed me Southwest Sparkler Furniture and that is when I got hooked. My husband and I call it our Morroccan house though. The patterns of the pillows and sheets are wild and crazy. The colors are super bold. We have bright reds, dark purple and even some pinks in the house. We love it and think it is perfect for a retired couples southern home. It might be a bit overdone for some people, but it is just what we needed. By the time we would get tired of it, we would be dead.