If you’ve walked through the Coastal Living Magazine® Idea House lately, you’ve probably come out of it with an astonished look!

For more than a week now, the first floor of the beach house has been decorated with gorgeous-looking pine board walls all around the open area that is the living room and kitchen! You can see in the pictures below that the wooden walls of the main floor look magnificent and really add to the cabin feel of the Ultimate Beach House.

The basement of the house has also seen a lot of progress this week. When designer Lew Oliver initially drew up the floor plans for the idea house, one of the main features in the basement was a spa room with a sauna. This week, cedar boards were put up in the spa room and the sauna seems to be taking shape as well!

The media room, which is also in the basement, is waiting for the wallpapers after the walls were primed last week. Pictures of the media room have also been added to this post.

Probably the most colorful images we have put so far on this Ultimate Beach House blog are the master bedroom bathroom tiles. These reclaimed picturesque tiles are over 100 years old and come from an old house in France – courtesy of this project’s interior designer Tim Clarke. As the construction of the idea house nears completion, the designer team is eager to put their fingerprint on this amazing development out on the Washington coast.

The 2010 Coastal Living Magazine® Idea House really seems to be one for the ages.

It’s been an exciting couple of weeks for the Coastal Living Ultimate Beach House and we have some great pictures to share with you!

As you can see, the siding of the South side of the idea house is completed, and the siding of the guest house and garage is almost done too.

The interior of the house continues to see rapid progress as well. The hardwood floors provided by Armstrong are in place on the first and second floor of the house, with only the stairs left to cover up.

The walls in the basement and second floor have been primed for paint and really complete the look of the rooms, as you can see in the pictures below.

Tiles, provided by the our sponsor Exquisite Surfaces, should be put in the bathrooms and kitchen starting next week.

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