Coastal color palettes have moved on since the days of the bright white and the navy blue dominated every beach shack from here to Nantucket. Now they're a shorthand for the feeling you get at the beach, that moment where the shoulder drop, the lungs fill with sea air and life just feels fantastic again.
Modern coastal palettes feature a lot of blue, sure, and some white. But they also fold in yellows, pinks, greens, pale woods — all the colors you get you get on the shore. 'It needed to feel like a beach house over looking the ocean,' said Azar Fattahi, one of the co-founders of the design studio LALA Reimagined, to justify the color palette she chose for a project in Malibu (more of which, below).
