Catching Waves While You Sleep

Re-decorating a bedroom with a beach theme takes a bit of creativity, and a little knowledge of where to begin. The center piece of your room is your bed, so you should always start by picking new beach bedding, and working in your paint color schemes and themes around the bedding.

I like to keep it simple with choosing my bedding, by first and foremost using my favorite color. Since you spend the majority of your time sleeping in your bed, you may as well go with something you like. In my case, it is the color blue, just like the ocean. Since I love Hawaii and how it conquers up warm memories for me of warm tropical trade winds, and swaying palm trees, I decided on a classic Hawaiian tapa print with a blue ground, and warm sandy hues. This design features lots of island motifs, and has a few other colors that compliment the blue to work with for the rest of the room.

For the top of the bed I decided on a comforter and sham set in the same design, then I added in a solid color printed sheet set with just a light texture on them to add some depth to my bedding. I also choose a fabric bed skirt in the same design as my sheets to highlight the Hawaiian print I chose. Using a coordinating bed skirt instead of the same design as the comforter aids with the flow of colors I will use for the rest of the room.

To have a nice full looking bed presentation, I recommend having four to six pillows on the bed, plus two or more smaller throw pillows. Two will be used to cover the pillows shams, and sheet set. Then I also like to have two more standard size pillows, generally with a third solid color that compliments your color wheel. This will complete your bed ensemble, and make your bedroom look like a model home.

Bedding on Success

They are bedding on success.

For The Guys
Newport Beach residents Doug C. Smith, 28, and Edward McLean, 27, are just two surfers trying to make a living. They never thought they would do it be selling bedding, though.
But six months ago, the former neighbors founded Dean Miller Hawaiian Island Prints, a company that specializes in Hawaiian-style comforters and tropical sheets.

“The whole company started as us trying to make bedding for ourselves,” Smith said. “You try to find bedding for guys and there’s nothing out there. You have two choices: solids or geometrical patterns.”

Nearly three years ago, McLean, who is an avid surfer, wanted Hawaiian-style bedding. He went to a fabric store, pinned some stuff together and took it to a dry cleaners to get it sewed up. Friends and visitors loved his creations. But McLean, who was working as a corporate trainer for bartenders and traveling a lot, just didn’t have the time to pursue the business.
That’s where Smith came in.

Yin and Yang

Smith and McLean had been neighbors in Newport Beach five years ago. They maintained their friendship, which was largely fueled by their mutual interest in surfing and other water activities.

McLean describes himself as the “ideas” end of the partnership. Smith, on the other hand, is the one that makes things happen. “It’s a yin-yang kind of thing,” Smith said.

One class away from his MBA at Chapman University, Smith said he’s always intended to go into business on his own. He describes it as an “entrepreneurial spirit,” but others might call it a “problem with authority,” Smith jokes.

They launched the company in January and began marketing their product two months ago. The bedding comes in 14 different brightly colored designs and varying patterns of surfboards, Hawaiian and Polynesian motifs and other symbols of surf culture.

Smith and McLean, of course, use their own product at home. Smith prefers blue dancing hula girls to McLean’s more wholesome red surfboards. Both of these patterns are limited edition, a unique characteristic of the business. The company also offers a full line of surf decor items for your entire house.

Who Is Dean Miller?
McLean and Smith hit on the name Dean Miller while surfing in Kauai. Locals there told them of the Hawaiian legend. And although McLean and Smith repeat the legend often, they won’t attest to its truth or validity, they said.

Miller, it was rumored, lived in the majestic beauty of Kauai’s rain forest. He hunted wild boar, fished the awesome ocean, surfed the mighty waves and bathed in breathtaking waterfalls.
But the clincher for Smith is that Miller reportedly slept on a bed of Hawaiian flowers. It was the perfect name for their product.

Tropical Bedding Makes a Great Bedroom Make-over

When it comes to decorating our homes with tropical bedding, we spend a lot of time and money on the rooms that your guests see first. Not on the bedroom that can be decorated with tropical bedding. Rooms like our front hallway, bathrooms, and kitchens where we do most of our entertaining don’t have tropical bedding. Obviously we can’t put tropical bedding in these rooms, but the most overlooked room in your house is the bedroom, and the tropical bedding we use in not only the master bedroom, but the tropical bedding + in the guest bedroom too. If you have an overnight guest, the spare room featuring your tropical bedding will be the room your guest will spend the most time in.

With no good explanation most people decorate their bedrooms and pick tropical bedding last. We find it hard to justify transforming our own bedrooms into tropical retreats with tropical bedding. You should make it just as special or unique as the rest of the house using your tropical bedding. You let your teen transform their room into their own space, they got to pick our their own kind of tropical bedding, décor, and plaster stickers all over their ceiling. So how come the rest of us settle for the same typical Laura Ashley floral bedding our parents used? Why not use tropical bedding?

It’s time to join the new generation and choose your own unique style to use your tropical bedding as a place you can retreat too, relax, unwind, and make it your own personal sanctuary. Nowadays it is so easy to shop for tropical bedding, and beach décor, you don’t even need to leave the comfort of your own home. With just a few clicks on your computer you can have a whole tropical bedding ensemble delivered to your front door. Your dream tropical room is only a shipment away.

Dean Miller Tropical Bedding has so many patterns for you choose from, we offer everything from surfboards to tiki men to toned down tropical bedding. But we don’t stop there, we also offer all the complimentary surf themed décor for your tropical bedding, with rugs, window dressings, lamps, wall signs, your room will feel like an endless tropical vacation. Let Dean Miller help you make you feel like you are staying at a five star Hawaiian resort every night!

Dean Miller Hawaiian Bedding brings the beach indoors

Picture a twenty-something surfer trying to shop for bedding for their home. Between solid colors, Stars Wars and feminine themed flowers, he can find nothing that would suit his hip, surf-obsessed lifestyle.

So he visits a fabric store, finds a few cool Hawaiian fabric prints in bright hibiscus patterns, then has the local dry cleaners sew them together to make tropical bedding. And the rest, as they say in Hawaii, is legend.

Out of this fruitless search for Hawaiian bedding, a company was born that specializes in tropical bedding. Dean Miller Hawaiian Bedding is riding a wave of success making comforters, duvets, throw blankets, dec pillows, crib sets, and other surf themed décor items.

"We filled a niche that just needed to be filled, " says Doug Smith, the owner of the Dana Point-based Hawaiian bedding enterprise. "I looked at the industry and everything was so bland and similar that we just wanted to add a little fun and bring some island accents into the home. We did this by making our own line of tropical bedding."

Dean Miller’s brightly patterned tropical bedding comes in prints featuring traditional hibiscus flowers, long boards, hula dancers, pineapples, tikis and even daiquiris. Classic motifs for any Hawaiian bedding enthusiast.

And just who is Dean Miller? The Hawaiian bedding company name originates from a "kama'aina" (local) legend named Dean Miller, who was said to reside in the majestic beauty of Kauai's rainforest, and hunted wild boar, fished Hawaii's prolific oceans, bathed under towering waterfalls and slept on a bed of Hawaiian flowers.

"The story embodied everything our company was about," said the tropical bedding owner. Whether the legend is true or not, they thought it was the perfect name for their new Hawaiian bedding business.


Dean Miller’s tropical bedding is located in Orange County, California that suits them perfectly, the owner says. "We're here mainly for economics, easy distribution to our customer base and centralized shipping." But there is one other good reason the owner cites for being in Dana Point, "It's close to the beach," he says. You can view the tropical bedding superstore and also buy online at www.deanmillerprints.com.