COASTAL COTTAGECORE DECOR thrifting inspiration

We're heading into summer and all I can think about are days spent lying on the beach and eating ice cream on the boardwalk. With all of those dreams swirling around in my head, I've been really wanting to add some coastal cottagecore vibes to our home, which, of course, means that we're going thrifting. If the term coastal cottagecore is new to you, it's simply just a sub-niche of cottagecore, where cottagecore tends to take a lot of its inspiration from like woodland or pastoral nature. Coastal cottagecore takes its inspiration from the coast. Now I know some people don't love all of the ideas of sub-niches and names for different decor styles, and that is totally fine. All of these are just kind of for fun and maybe a little bit silly. Personally, I love sort of digging into all these little sub-niches and ideas, but in the end, I will always recommend that you just decorate with your heart and just love your home no matter what it is, and don't feel the need to actually categorize it or, you know, hit a specific niche. This is really just for fun. So when I think coastal cottagecore, I think cozy cottage on Nantucket. Spaces drenched in blue and cream. Gingham here, there, and everywhere, of course. Classic blue ticking and delicate floral touches. Historic details like wainscoting, delft tiles, and heirloom furniture pieces that feel like they've been in the space for decades. Outdoor spaces designed for hosting long lingering summer dinners with friends and family. And of course, quintessential coastal details like seashells and other beachy inspired decor. Where typical cottagecore may lean into warm tones, I feel like coastal cottagecore looks best with cool colors and lots and lots of blue. I also, for some reason, imagine coastal cottagecore spaces to feel just a little bit less cluttered than the traditional cottagecore, and to feel just a little bit more carefully cultivated than some of the more, like, maximalist vibes that you see with a lot of, like, traditional cottagecore. I kind of just imagine Ina Garten, like, carefully curating her Nantucket home with, like, the best antiques and all of that sort of stuff. Like, that's the vibe. So like I said, we are going to go thrifting and try to find some really good coastal cottagecore goodies, and I'm going to try to, like, show you what I would look for if I was trying to go for that entire look throughout my house. We'll definitely be looking for antique plates in various shades of blue. Antique plates are a classic cottagecore find. I love the idea of doing an entire wall that's just all different sort of blue antique plates. Lots of lace and gingham especially, especially blue gingham, of course. Furniture or really any decor that has scalloped edges, I just love the look of it, and I think it really has, like, a little bit of a beachy vibe without feeling too generically beachy. It's just the perfect little touch. Copper details for the kitchen, of course. I love copper details for any kitchen, honestly, ever, and especially cottagecore, but I think coastal cottagecore, those copper tones really pop really well against more coastal cottagecore, like, whites and blues. So definitely lots of copper details. Anything that would work well for outdoor entertaining, so plates, linens, flatware, vases, and obviously any beachy feeling decor. Things with seashells on them, scallops on them, and of course fun little fish decor, or whales, or just any of that cutesy stuff. I know beachy decor can feel a little bit kitschy at times if it's not done thoughtfully. Maybe I can just find a few different pieces to show you the ones that I might pick over other ones that would kind of change that space from feeling more kitschy to a little bit more elevated. So that is what we are on the hunt for this week. I have a few days that I'll be out hunting for things, we'll see what we can find, and then we'll meet back here and we'll do a little haul. The first Goodwill I stopped in actually had quite a few linens that I felt would work really well to add some coastal cottagecore touches to a home. Lots of blues and whites. I especially loved this blue and white quilt with the stripes on the back side would definitely be perfect for the theme, and this off-white eyelet bed skirt was really charming and would add just the perfect delicate touch. Of course these blue gingham pillows were basically exactly what we were looking for, but I also really loved this sheet with this charming print and the really adorable blue embroidery along the edges. I think it would be a really great option for breaking up so much blue. I really love this cake stand. There's just something about the shape of it with the cutouts that just to me feels a bit coastal. Maybe it's a little reminiscent of a seashell or something that I just think that it would make such a great touch to a coastal cottagecore kitchen. I will talk about this a little bit more later, but white wicker really has such a beachy feeling and I think if you add accents of it throughout your home it's a really great way to add just a little coastal touch to your decor. I do think these chairs might be a little too on the nose with their lighthouse print, but I do think that if they were the only nautical piece in a room they could be styled in a really cute way that might actually make them feel elevated, but definitely have to be a little careful with that. Now personally I would pass on pieces like this. It just feels a little too mass-produced. In general if you're trying to get the cottagecore feeling in a space you want to look for pieces that feel a little more vintage or unique and the seashell art just felt a little too off the shelf to me personally. I do see pieces from this Baltcraft collection a lot at thrift stores which I definitely think would work with the vibe we're going for, but you could also go for a more feminine serving wear like this one with more of a folk art look to it. Both would work, I think it just comes down to personal preference and whether you'd like a more sort of delicate feminine touch or something a little more neutral. I thought these lamps could be a fun pop of blue. I do think I would probably put them in a more neutral space and just let them really be that main accent piece if I was going to use them. This seashell jar I thought was pretty cute to use as a vase or something. It feels a little bit vintage so I think it could definitely work without feeling a little too over the top nautical kitschy. I also loved this little set of bowls. I'm honestly not sure if they're meant to be seashells but I think that being more abstract shape makes them sort of perfect for getting that coastal look without being too over the top. This rattan shelf would be absolutely perfect as a plant and book shelf but would also be really charming in a kitchen style with some cookbooks and bowls. Isn't it just too cute? As always I feel like baskets are essentially the backbone of cottagecore styling so you can never have too many baskets. I thought this homemade little lace doily bowl was just absolutely delightful and it could just add a really great delicate handmade touch to a room. These are some other really great options for serving ware that has a coastal cottagecore feeling. I've seen this one set at the thrift store before and I am just always so tempted by it but this basket weave design is also really charming. These stoneware mugs were so cute and honestly I didn't grab them and they're one of those things that are gonna haunt me. I really wish that I did. This seashell bowl is definitely one of those pieces that could easily be a little too kitschy and over the top but I do think that there are ways to style it especially as a single accent piece in a room where it could definitely be cute if done right. This is actually a local antique store but they do have really great prices generally and I wanted to pop in because I knew they would probably have some great options to show you as examples for coastal cottagecore secondhand decorating. If you are on the hunt for copper pieces and are having trouble finding them at the thrift store, I feel like antique stores do generally have quite a few pieces to choose from including these molds and cake pans that I personally like to collect. Here's another great example of a more folk art style that I do feel still works really well with the style that we're going for. It's a little bit of a different vibe than the more obviously nautical prince but I actually think that that could be a really great way to break things up so it doesn't start to feel like too on the nose. Same with this bubble glass, I think it is so charming and it still feels coastal without feeling too overtly nautical. Now this little dish is definitely overtly nautical since it's clearly a seashell but I think it's just so cute and clearly vintage. I think it's this perfect little accent for a bathroom or kitchen maybe as a ring holder by the sink, so charming. This basket with its white and blue floral liner is maybe my holy grail for a coastal cottagecore vibe. So sweet and adorable, I just absolutely love it. These fish dishes are another example of how I think having your more clearly nautical touches be vintage or antique can make them feel a lot more authentically cottagecore versus modern mass-produced pieces that end up feeling a little bit more overdone. I will be the first to admit that this paint-by-number sailboat might be kitschy but honestly I just absolutely love it and would totally go for it if I had the right spot in my home for it. We talked about vintage blue plates before and this one is exactly the style I would collect for a coastal cottagecore plate wall. How sweet are these blue mugs? I just love the birds and I think they're the perfect touch for the style that we're going for. Same with these delft mugs, I would say they're almost the exact thing that comes to mind for me when I think of coastal cottagecore kitchen. Okay we are back and it is time for our thrift haul. If you follow me you know that I only thrift things that I will actually use in my own home, so my thrift haul is fairly small but I got some really good things. A lot of my finds are definitely more on the traditional cottagecore end but I still think that they would totally work in a coastal cottagecore home and they're just so cute I have to show you them. So the first one is definitely coastal cottagecore. It is this absolutely adorable book magazine record holder. I just love white wicker. Now white wicker definitely can feel more shabby chic which is it's a cousin at least if not just a precursor to cottagecore. If you are worried about getting too shabby chic I would definitely say that you can definitely use these especially to get a coastal cottagecore vibe in your home but I would just like use it sparingly like more as like an accent. If you have a lot of especially white wicker in a room it will probably start to feel pretty shabby chic but if you just have like one or two little pieces I think I think that's the perfect touch to get a little more of a coastal cottagecore vibe especially if your house leans more towards traditional cottagecore like mine. I think that this will be perfect in the primary bedroom if you missed it I recently gave our primary bedroom a little bit of a makeover and I think it turned out so so cute and I think that this is just like the perfect little accent piece to add to it. I collect vinyl records and I actually am busting out of the other thrifted record holder that I had thrifted last year so I am very excited to have a new one to start adding my collection to this. I think that'll be just so cute but definitely you could use this for books you could use this for plants even would be really cute in it all sorts of things so I think a piece like this is definitely just perfect for that coastal cottagecore touch. And actually talking about white wicker I saw the absolute cutest white wicker shelf at one of the thrift stores it was only $15 and I was completely obsessed with it. I tell you I stood in that thrift store for at least 10 minutes trying to think of a place that I could put it in my house. I was just racking my brain of thinking of all the different spots of like where I could potentially make it work and I just for the life of me could not think of the right spot in our home. But I did text my sister and thankfully she was just as all in on the vibe and so I grabbed it and I took it straight over to her house. So I found it a loving home which I'm very excited about because it just felt like one of those thrift store pieces that you just can't leave behind you'll regret it forever. So now at least it lives in the family. So next I did grab some copper molds, cake pans, whatever you want to call them. I have mentioned before that I do collect these anyway and so I'm always on the lookout for a few cute ones. Now this one is a very basic shape I just thought it was a cute one so why not grab it. This I actually grabbed from that antique store and it was only two bucks so basically through store prices anyway. Too good of a deal to pass up so grabbed this one perfect to just add to my collection. Now this one is definitely on our theme it is it's a seashell right so it's just so cute I thought it was so adorable and I thought I just absolutely have to add it to my collection. I do already have one of the fish copper molds and I think I have the lobster as well so I already have kind of a couple uh coastal cottagecore you know copper molds. If you're going all in and really trying to get a full coastal cottagecore vibe I would say collecting all of these in those coastal shapes like the nautical shapes would be so cute especially on like a white wall to do just the nautical shapes of the copper molds. That's personally what I would do especially if I had like a beachside cottage like how cute would that be? And I ended up grabbing this cute little urn how adorable is he? I think I'm like kind of addicted now to urns. In case you missed it I did recently do a little patio refresh and I found this plastic urn that I ended up giving a makeover to and I think it turned out really cute it almost looks like it's made out of stone now but I made it into a planter I drilled a hole in the bottom all that stuff and now I just think that they're so so cute now that I styled one out so now I kind of want all of the urns. This one does not have the hole in the bottom so if I do want to plant something in it I'll probably have to either sit it inside of it like not actually plant it in or drill a hole which I think I probably could so we'll think about it I do probably want to change the color this specific color of green is just not one that I do a lot in this shade of green in my home I usually go a little bit darker a little less saturated but I love that it's like metal like that's really cute so we will definitely be giving this a little bit of a makeover in some way I just haven't fully decided exactly what I'm gonna do with it but for I think two bucks I just couldn't pass it up I also grabbed a few bowls so this one I just thought was really really sweet it's definitely homemade and I used to do pottery back in my college days and so I understand how much love and work goes into making homemade pottery and I just love grabbing those pieces when I see them at the thrift store because I feel like they need to be saved somebody needs to love them but I thought this one was especially cute with sort of the blue speckling definitely has a coastal feel to me and would just be a perfect little addition to like mix in with other like plates and bowls and yeah it's just really adorable and it was only a dollar so of course he had to come home with me and this one I will say is probably a little more traditional cottagecore but just so cute I mean look look at the little strawberries how cute is that I love strawberry stuff I've definitely been collecting more stuff I see at the thrift store that has strawberries but I especially love this one because it just looks hand painted it's really really sweet and this just feels like one of those pieces of pottery that you'll kind of keep forever like I just feel like I'll mix this in with all of my other pottery and use it for parties and all of that stuff it's a nice size for maybe serving a salad for just like one or two people and yeah I just really really love that and it's perfect for summer right especially like we talked about you know we're looking for any sort of like fun pieces to do outdoor entertaining I think that that is so coastal cottagecore is to have those sort of Ina garden summer parties on the patio so I feel like this would be so perfect so that is all that I got for myself however we saw quite a few fun things so I really hope you enjoyed this video I hope you got some inspiration especially if this is a style that speaks to you but even if it's not I just like I said before I really enjoy sort of delving into these styles and then keeping my eyes out and like training my eye for what to look for at the thrift store if there are other styles that you're really interested in and you're not sure how to thrift the look leave a comment below let me know what styles you're really into and maybe we can go thrifting together to find them and of course I just wanted to say thank you thank you so much for watching thank you for every single comment every single like I just really deeply appreciate you watching I truly think that you guys are like the sweetest best people in the entire world so I hope you are having a lovely day and I will see you next time