Decor Tips for Creating a Tropically Inspired Bedroom

The warmth of the tropical sun evokes a feeling of relaxed ease, which is what makes tropically inspired bedrooms so popular. The look is lush and beautiful and can help you get a peaceful night’s sleep. If this sounds like a look you would like in your bedroom, designs that reference the Caribbean, Africa, and Southeast Asia will all create an inviting and warm tropical bedroom. Here are a few tips to get you started.

A Room with a Tropical View

Remember the gorgeous view at that tropical hotel you visited? Tropical villas and hotels make the best use of their views that they can, and you should also. Your bedroom may not look over palm trees, a white sandy beach, or sparkling blue water, but you can still create a tropical look by ensuring that there is plenty of light. Folding or sliding glass doors that open up at least one wall are perfect for a tropically inspired bedroom.

Bamboo Bedroom Furniture

Using bamboo in your tropically inspired bedroom will add an extra layer of tropical flavor. A bamboo bed, like the Island Estate King West Indies Bed from Tommy Bahama transforms your bedroom into an island retreat. With its blend of island inspired textures and materials, the bed creates dramatic, exotic island flair.

Cool Floors

Wood flooring is popular for tropically inspired bedrooms although tiling and marble are also good choices. Select a floor that has some warmth—not plain white but off whites, pale terra cotta, and grays will work. Tropically inspired bedrooms with tiled floors are cool and easy to clean and maintain. You can also warm up the bedroom with an area rug, if you think it needs it.

Tropical Netting

Hanging netting around your bed can evoke the feeling of a balmy tropical night. Netting is a quintessentially tropical element, but you don’t have to hang netting over the entire bed as you would to avoid mosquitos in the tropics. Just a touch of netting will do the job, you can easily find plain, white netting in a fine gauze to achieve the best result.

Accessorize, Accessorize, Accessorize

Now that you have laid the foundation, it’s time to play. Have a little fun with your tropically inspired bedroom and make it your personal space. Accessories help you do this. Try green and white wall paper with a large tropical print, or add green and white furniture such as the Island Estate Avalon Wicker Chair by Tommy Bahama that will give you a place to relax, read, or just enjoy the tropical mood you’ve created.

Fans for Air Circulation

In many designs, fans are an anathema, but for tropically inspired bedrooms they are a must. You don’t have to turn them on, but the presence of a fan will give you bedroom additional tropical flair. Ceiling fans are ideal, there are many types that can be incorporated into your design and give you additional lighting. However, even a simple desk fan will do the job.

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House Your Media in Style with Lexington Furniture

From news to watching DVDs or streaming movies, there’s no doubt that the TV has become an integral part of modern life, and possibly the most important entertainment provider in your home. Once thought of as an eyesore, flat screen TVs are now the focal point in many contemporary living rooms. In addition, our TVs now have recipes, can answer phones, and stream videos and movies. Your console can both frame the television and anchor the room.

Make a Statement with Your Flat Screen TV

The days when TV units were small are long gone. A large flat screen is now considered essential for watching movies and sports, whether in the living room or a separate media room or home theater. So, you media wall unit needs to be able to accommodate a large TV as well as a DVD players, disks, and other accoutrements such as game console ports, remotes, and more.

A wall display unit that doubles as a media entertainment console is a stylish option for both making your TV the focal point of your room and keeping your media neat and organized. Generally, a large part of the media unit is reserved for the TV and its components, as in the Monterey Sands Camino Real Media Wall Unit by Lexington. Additional shelves for displaying objects, arranging books, and storing DVDs are arranged around the TV shelf.

Another option, especially in smaller rooms, is to place your TV on a TV stand or armoire. A medium height stand with adjustable shelves and drawers for media equipment, built-in power cables, will create a harmonious and casual atmosphere in your entertainment space. The Monterey Sands Spanish Bay Entertainment Console by Lexington features four drawers and three adjustable shelves to easily organize your media storage.

Finishing Touch: Comfortable Seating

In general, televisions come with adjustable rotating stands that allow you to angle the TV to suit the convenience of viewers. So, once you have your TV supported, comfortable seating is a must. In most living rooms, the TV will be opposite the sofa, allowing you and your family to lounge with ease. If necessary, you can arrange for accent chairs to serve as media chairs in smaller spaces or when overflow seating is needed.

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How to Create a Glamorously Elegant Dining Room with Bernhardt Furniture

If you love glamorous and elegant design — the bright, lustrous accents and luxurious finishes with its elegant details, palette of ivory, gold, white, and soft gray, add an unprecedented level of sophistication to the overall look. Bernhardt Furniture will liven any room with designs that that dazzle both mind and spirit. A little luxury goes a long way in this glamorously elegance dining room.

Create a Luxurious Atmosphere with Subtle Style

Good dining room furniture creates the right ambiance for one of the activities most central to family life — meals. Shopping for dining room furniture can be overwhelming—there are so many choices available. If you are brave and bold, you can find a style that reflects your personality and create a glamorous, luxurious look with subtle patterns and muted colors.

The Beverly Glen collection by Bernhardt merges old Hollywood glamour with contemporary flair in an expert blend of transitional elegance and bold detailing. This mix of classic shapes and artful lines sets the stage for wholesome family meals and elegant entertaining. Measure your space to determine if you have room for a hutch or buffet.

Choosing the right kind of furniture will make your dining room glamorous and leave a lasting impression on your guests. The soft movement, comfy cream upholstery, and classic shape of the Beverly Glen Arm Chair conveys relaxed elegance while the tapered legs and scrolled back evoke restrained elegance. The subtle color palette of ivory, cream, and grays highlight the rich dark wood of the table and chairs. The glamorous look is about bright, lustrous accents and luxe finishes such as black galaxy granite that are sure to leave your guests gasping in awe.

Glitz, Glamour, and Drama

Glitz, glamour, and big-time drama are the hallmark of this style. It is actually a combination of several different styles, including neoclassical and art deco. It reaches the exact balance between overly cluttered and extremely spare, edited in such a way that inhabits the space between excess and minimalism. This creates a majestic movie atmosphere that references old Hollywood glamour. It is, in many ways, a style made up of other styles, with every piece a beautiful, detailed, and functional work of art.

If you want to create a little glitz and glam with a touch of elegance in your dining room, stop by a Baer’s Furniture showroom near you and shop the entire Beverly Glen collection from Bernhardt Furniture.

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Baer's Furniture Announces Round of Corporate Promotions

Baer's Furniture is excited to congratulate the Baer family on changes in corporate structure, following an announcement by chairman of the board Robert Baer.

From left, David Baer, Ronald Baer, Ira Baer, Cathy Baer Haubenstock, Jerome Baer, Laurance Baer, Danielle Baer, and Michael Baer

The family-owned and operated business has elevated several of its family members to executive positions within the corporation, including:

• Jerome Baer, President and CEO
• Allan Baer, Vice Chairman of the Board
• Ronald Baer, Executive Vice President and COO
• Cathy Baer Haubenstock, Senior Vice President
• Laurance Baer, Senior Vice President
• Ira Baer, Senior Vice President and CFO
• Danielle Baer, Vice President
• David Baer, Vice President

Michael Baer has chosen to retire this year.

CEO Jerome Baer announced plans to expand the Baer's Furniture brand further into Florida markets in Jacksonville, Orlando, Tampa, and Dade County.

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Create a Cozy, Comfortable Living Room with a Natuzzi Editions Leather Sofa

The comfort and visual warmth leather furniture can bring to a home make it a popular choice for living room décor. Available in neutral shade, or even bold colors, leather couches provide a solid foundation to decorate around. However, if left bare and stranded, a leather couch can become an unwieldy piece of furniture that overwhelms the entire room. Fabric, wall color, accessories, and the right furniture arrangement can integrate new or well-worn leather pieces into your home’s design.

Area Rugs

Use an area rug to define the space and balance the scale of the furniture in the room. Place the front of the sofa legs and the other furniture just over the edges of the rug to connect the pieces. The Natuzzi Contemporary Sofa above is placed to create the central conversation area of the room, with overstuffed chairs and an ottoman to complete the circle. The area rug highlights the rich leather of the furniture and the polished wood floors. The neutral color allows the furniture to take center stage.

Pillows and Throw Blankets

Throw pillows add visual interest and depth that keep your leather sofa from becoming a chunk of solid brown in your living room. A throw makes your overstuffed, comfortably broken-in leather couch even more inviting. You can dress up the piece with pillows in two or three colors, or drape a quilt over the back for a country-style room. Or add a bit of elegance to your traditional look with a fringed chenille or cashmere throw.

Accessories

Accessories are a great way to add interest to any room. Hang a painting or series of paintings that are narrower than the width of the sofa to add visual height behind the focal point in your room. Place accessories of various heights on a sofa table or window sill to keep the sofa from looking too bulky. Match the scale of the coffee table to that of the sofa, or use an ottoman, such as the Contemporary Ottoman with Block Legs, as a coffee table to keep it in scale.

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Explore the Bold New Look of Midcentury Modern Furniture from Lexington

Mid-century modern style can be instantly recognized by its simple clean lines and geometric design. This is a style that can be seen the iconic designs of Charles Eames, George Nelson, and George Nakashima developed from 1933 to 1965. Possibly driven by the popularity of the Mad Men TV series, midcentury modern furniture is back in style. The TAKE FIVE Collection by Lexington is an updated iteration of midcentury style.

Much more than retro, the mid-century modern designs resonate with elegant simplicity and edgy expression of a bygone age. Delicate touches of gold leaf and Carrera marble veneers add up to unforgettable, sophisticated home décor. Although mid-century modern style continues to increase in popularity, no one wants to live in a time capsule. Below are some tips on how to get the retro-inspired look.

Design Basics of Mid-century Modern Interiors

• Simple lines
• Clean, uncluttered look
• Wood furniture and wooden trim, often in teak
• Geometric or graphic print wall art, starburst clocks, and metal mobiles
• Graphic patterns and texture

In the bedroom above, the TAKE FIVE King Bedroom by Lexington is an update on this popular style with an added global influence. It incorporates the iconic mid-century elements of clean, organic lines and natural wood grain, adding a depth and elegance to the space. The sophisticated palette of rich browns and neutrals instead of the traditional teals and tangerines plays well with the brass hardware adding a contemporary feel to the look. In keeping with the updated look, the soft gold geometric print in the throw pillows replaces the more colorful geographic patterns of the classic style. Geometric gold lamps reference the style while updating the look.

Keep It Fresh with Thoughtful Finishing Touches

Carefully complement the clean, simple lines of your mid-century modern inspired furniture with minimalist accessories. Geometric-inspired ceramics on the bedside table and bold black and white prints on the wall are perfect foils for this simple, timeless décor. The simple lines of the TAKE FIVE collection by Lexington look fresh and modern in this soft brown, contemporary bedroom.

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Create a Casual Dining Room Southern Style with Paula Deen

Until recently, many thought dining rooms were on the endangered species list, with many people preferring a family room/eat-in kitchen combination. But the growing at-home entertaining trend has created a renewed appreciation of a functional, beautiful, casual dining room. With the Paula Deen Dogwood Dining Room Group you can fill your dining area with casual southern charm—the perfect place entertaining as well as for family meals.

Choose the Right Table

The table is the most important piece of the furniture in your dining room, so you may be tempted to pick something that makes a statement. But instead of choosing an ornate design, consider keeping the table neutral and understated so that it transcends the trends and ages well with time.

The River House Round Table with Turned Pedestal from Paula Deen gives you a bold, classic look that only gets better with time. The style of your table influences the feel of your room and how many people you can comfortably host. Round tables or oval tables are perfect for almost any space, and their rounded edges let more people sit and move around with ease. Formal table cloths are almost a thing of the past, so your tabletop needs to shine. Choose material that will be durable and attractive. Consider not only the size of your dining room but also how many people you will entertain and how often. Choose a table with leaves for ultimate seating flexibility.

Include a Sideboard

When bringing southern style into your home, you can’t forget the sideboard—every traditional southern home has one. Look for something practical with plenty of space for storage and service. Warm wood tones and classic styles give a traditional, charming feel to your casual dining area. Modern accessories keep the room fresh and current.

Mix Casual and Formal China

When entertaining, mix and match your casual, every day dinnerware with your formal China for a collected, casual look. Give your place settings a modern touch with crisp, large, monogrammed linen napkins. Family silver, if you have it, blends nicely into casual southern styles, as no southern hostess would entertain without her heirloom pieces.

Create a Mood with Candles and Flowers

The soft glow of candles make any event special, so use plenty of votives and tapers on your table and sideboard. If you are lucky enough to have a fireplace in your dining room, consider it a big candle that adds warmth and intimacy to the ambiance. Fresh flowers are a must, but they don’t have to be elaborate. A few stalks in a glass vase as a centerpiece, or small clusters in compotes or bowls spaced along your table will add color and set the tone.

It’s no mean feat to create a space that feels special enough to use for formal events, while also functional enough to be used every day. But with careful planning, you can do it. With the Dogwood Collection by Paula Deen you’ll quickly find the right mix of elegance and comfort.

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