Resort Vibes at Home
I’ve just returned from a week on the Big Island of Hawaii and it was a great adventure, I’ll share pictures soon! I love to visit the resorts and walk around the lobbies then enjoy a cocktail at the bar and stare out at the ocean views. I’m always inspired by the resort decor, the way they’ve decorated in island style textures and motifs, and the way the designers blur the lines between indoors and out. In every hotel I visited last week I noticed so many stylish woven chairs, I’m featuring all the ones I saw in my Insta stories today! I’ve already added a rattan papasan chair to my office earlier this year, it gives the space a little vacation vibe.
Woven chairs make great textural accents in residential spaces too, think about placement in offices, bedrooms, dining rooms and living rooms. Woven chairs in rattan or bamboo are an easy way to add texture and also inject a resort style vibe into a room.
rattan chairs from serena & lily
Every now and then you can get lucky and score a great rattan chair at a thrift store or vintage shop like I did with these chairs. If you’re not up for the hunt or simply can’t wait to add a great chair with a resort vibe to your home, consider these!
cocoon chair / barrel arm chair rattan lounge chair / pierce wicker woven (set of two) / lily rattan arm chair . Via Home Improvement http://www.rssmix.com/via Blogger http://alysesturdivant.blogspot.com/2019/03/resort-vibes-at-home.html March 25, 2019 at 11:25PM
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Slim Console Tables
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Standard depth console tables jut out into a space and can eat up more of a room than you wish them to. Slim console tables also serve another purpose: they are perfect for areas where you don’t need seating but instead seek to fill the lower half of wall space. Above them you can hang art or photography or a flat screen TV and below use the console for a minimalist display of decorative objects.
Here are a few more consoles in slimmer profiles (15” or less) that will help anyone create a drop zone in a narrow foyer, or fill a blank wall without taking up too much space!
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The next day use the painter’s tape (or frog tape) to create the line where you want the edge of the paint.
Using acrylic craft paint in your color of choice, apply a thick coat and use your fingers (not a brush) to spread it on the bottom half of the vase, but not so thick that it drips.
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The stone texture is a really nice contrast to the matte paint colors, I’m so pleased with how they turned out!
These containers can also be used to hold pencils, paintbrushes, matchbooks, candies, whatever! I brought them to my studio to brighten my space!
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