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Tropical Dreams - Bringing the Beach Indoors With A Hawaiian Bedroom Make-over

By: Jim Olivero

Every one's dream is to live in a remote beach house on a sandy shore, but even those of us not living on the ocean's edge can indulge our dreams with a new bedroom make over. It all starts with replacing your old comforter or duvet cover, which is the centerpiece of your room. It is the first thing someone will see when they enter or glance into your bedroom. If you only have enough money to replace one thing, this is the item that should be replaced. You can paint the walls at a low cost to match your bedding, which will bring a whole new feel to your space.
Transforming your room to feeling like you are in Hawaii on that remote sandy beach can be done right in your own home, at not a great cost either. While you may not actually feel the sand between your toes in your room, you will feel like an island oasis has been brought to life.
Remember back in the days when "Star Wars" and NFL logo sheets where the ultimate in prepubescent cool? So now that you've grown up and been forced to allow muted pastel, 200-plus thread counts and weird things called pillow shams and duvet covers in your bedroom, what do you do?
If you're Dean Miller, the founder of the Hawaiian shirt-like bedding company Dean Miller Surf Bedding, you switch the light sabers for surfboards, Tie Fighters for a 1960s Woody and turn all the little Death Stars into hibiscus flowers that even the most Martha Stewart-esque woman wouldn't mind on her bed.
Dean Miller had had enough of trying to buy sheets that didn't fit his lifestyle, and couldn't find anything for a relaxed surfer who visited Hawaii twice a year. So he set out to capture the laid back vibe that encompasses the Hawaiian Islands, and made his own bedding set out of a couple old Hawaiian shirts. This was back in May of 1999.
Miller, then 28, came up with the idea for Hawaiian-print bedding while he was immersed in the beach and surfing culture of the Balboa Peninsula. But when it came to actually making the linens, he didn't know a thing.
"I pinned the first duvet cover together with a general picture of how I thought it should look, and I took it to a local dry cleaners to have them sew it together," Miller said. "I had no idea how these things were made." This simple act allowed a new genre of bedding design to be born; the beach had now been brought indoors. There are so many fun options you can utilize to feel like you are on a vacation without leaving town, like pin some grass hula skirts to the outside of your box spring to have your bed do the hula.
Now Dean Miller Hawaiian Bedding has expanded their business to more than 20 different fabric patterns, 12 different house ware items, including palm tree-embroidered towels, shower curtains, baby blankets, custom printed surfboard sheet sets, and even offer rugs in the shape of a surfboard!

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For more design ideas of how to turn your room into a tropical paradise, and pictures of room transformations visit Hawaiian Print Bedding or Dean Miller Hawaiian & Surfer Bedding.

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