What Is Coastal Christmas Decor?
Coastal Christmas decor is Christmas decorating built from the colours of the shoreline rather than from snow, pine and plaid. Instead of deep red and forest green, the palette runs to aqua, sand, driftwood, white and pale sea glass, with red kept as an accent rather than the theme. Trees get hung with shells and starfish. Santa turns up in linen, or on the sand, or in the water. It is the Christmas that suits a house where December means bare feet rather than boots.
Why Beach Christmas Decor Works Where Traditional Christmas Art Does Not
A coastal room is built from cool colours and a lot of white. Traditional Christmas art is built from warm red and green. Hang one in the other and the room stops agreeing with itself for six weeks. Every piece in this collection was painted the other way round, so the Christmas artwork sits inside the palette the house already has instead of fighting it.
Choosing Between the Coastal Santas
Seven pieces, and each one does a different job. The tropical beach Santa has him on the sand with a frozen cocktail under lit palms. The starfish Santa puts a shell in his hands and ties the piece to the coral and driftwood already in the room. The island linen Santa drops the red suit entirely, which makes it the easiest one to leave up all year. Santa in the palms is the one with warm string lights in the fronds. The white Christmas Santa is indoors beside a flocked tree in aqua and silver, for a cool room. The dolphin canvas is the playful one, for a bunk room or a pool bath. And the seashell tree Santa is the most traditional, a proper red suited Santa beside a tree hung with scallop shells.
Coastal Christmas Mantel and Wall Ideas
A coastal Christmas mantel usually wants one anchor piece above it and the rest kept low and loose. Pair a larger canvas with white lanterns, starfish, eucalyptus and a few red berries for the only warm note. In an entry, a single square canvas above a console does more than a garland. In a guest room, choose one of the quieter pieces so the wall still works in February when the decorations have gone back in the loft.
About These Beach Christmas Canvases
✔ Gallery wrapped canvas with the artwork carried around the edges, so no framing is needed
✔ Six square sizes from 10x10 up to 40x40 inches
✔ Painterly oil style artwork rather than flat holiday graphics
✔ Mounting hardware attached and leveling bumpers included, ready to hang out of the box
✔ Made to order, part of more than 7,000 pieces Tailor Made Rooms has made since 2020
Questions people ask about coastal Christmas decor
What is coastal Christmas decor?
Coastal Christmas decor swaps the traditional red and green palette for the colours of the shore: aqua, sand, white, driftwood and pale sea glass. Tailor Made Rooms designs coastal Christmas wall art around that palette, so a beach house can decorate for the season without the room changing character.
Which coastal Santa canvas should I choose for a mantel?
Tailor Made Rooms suggests a larger size, 24x24 inches or above, for a mantel or console, and aiming for roughly two thirds the width of the surface underneath. The seashell tree Santa and the white Christmas Santa are the two that suit a mantel best, because both are indoor scenes rather than beach scenes.
Can coastal Christmas wall art stay up after December?
Several of these were drawn with that in mind. The island linen Santa carries no red suit and no holiday motifs at all, and the tropical beach pieces read as coastal art with a seasonal character. Tailor Made Rooms built the palette from the shoreline first and the season second.
Are these canvases suitable for a lanai, porch or pool house?
No. Every piece in this collection is a canvas print and belongs indoors. Tailor Made Rooms recommends keeping canvas out of direct sunlight and away from steady moisture, which rules out lanais, covered porches and pool houses.
What size beach Christmas canvas should I order?
All seven come in six square sizes from 10x10 to 40x40 inches. Tailor Made Rooms suggests 24x24 inches and up above furniture, and 10x10 to 16x16 inches for a gallery wall, a shelf lean, a hallway or a powder room.
Do the canvases arrive ready to hang?
Yes. Every canvas from Tailor Made Rooms arrives gallery wrapped on a beveled wood stretcher with mounting hardware already attached and leveling bumpers included to protect the wall.
