3 Easy Steps Decorate a Room

Dean Miller Kona Kottage Tropical Bedding

Choose the Focal Point of the Room.  For your living or family room, that could be a sofa, an eye-catching piece of art, or perhaps a beautiful view through the window.  In the bedroom, the most obvious focal point is the bed itself.  You can dramatically change the look and feel of your room just by changing your bedding.  Go from drab to tropical in the time it takes to make your bed!

Make Your Room Comfortable.  When you redecorate, remember to think practically about how you'll use the room.  No need to sacrifice comfort to get the look you want.  When placing furniture, consider walkways and the usability of the space.  Look for comfortable and easy to clean fabrics on upholstered furniture, and especially when choosing your sheets and comforters.  Dean Miller bedding is always your best bet for bed linens.  Get tropical, Hawaiian, or surfer styles that are made with top quality fabrics and are machine washable.  The photo is of the Kona Kottage Comforter.  Check out more Dean Miller Bedding styles here.

Put Your Personality into Your Home Decor. Now to make your house feel like a home. There are all kinds of ways to creatively add your own personal style to your home decor. If you're a surfer you could add a surfboard rug, a unique surf sign, or even hang up one of your boards as art. If you have a green thumb you may want to create a lush tropical look with live plants. Your own personal seashell collection or some vintage items can be a fun way to personalize your decor too. By looking for unique tropical home accessories and using your own creativity you can create a beautiful tropical style home that's all yours!

For more information on our tropical bedding sets and unique home accessories be sure to visit our website at http://www.deanmillerprints.com.

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The Winner of our $1200.00 Surf Bedroom Make-Over Contest!

Dean Miller Surf Bedding wants to send congratulations to Melissa Moore from Belleville, Illinois for winning a complete Surf Bedroom make-over worth over $1200.00!

Our surf bedroom make over contest started on Feb. 2, 2011 and ran through March 15, 2011. Contestants were asked to submit a photo of any room in their house that they felt needed a make-over. The Dean Miller staff then picked the finalists, and asked the public to pick the ultimate winner. All entries were submitted through the official company Dean Miller Hawaiian Bedding Facebook page.

We had received over 200 entries, and boy did some of these folks need a make-over! The picture above is of the winning entry, as you can see the room is in shambles, and in desperate need of a little help from the Dean Miller crew. Time to get rid of the Spider Man bedding, and let the aloha in!

Melissa will receive a complete surf bedding set, new signs, new sheet set, plenty of throw pillows, a new rug, picture frames, wall borders, and we are even throwing in the paint to re-do the room! All this is topped with a our own Surf Room Designer Dean Miller providing a personal consulation to ensure the room looks like a Hawaiian getaway when we are done.

We will post more pictures of the re-done room on our blog here, so stay tuned to see the transformation!

Aloha and Mahalo!

Orange County Register did a Feature Article on your Favorite Surf Bedding company!

Surf-inspired bedding in O.C.

By CINDY MCNATT THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER Published: March 18, 2011

You have to acknowledge that lots of creativity comes from the surf community. With clothes, shoes, equipment and special events, it's as if anyone who ever rode a wave strives to preserve their lifestyle by turning the hobby into a business. Orange County certainly has more than its share of action sports entrepreneurs, and Doug Smith of Dana Point is one of them. Dean Miller surf inspired bedding is a décor business launched by Smith immediately after he finished his MBA at Chapman University in 1999. He knew exactly what he wanted to do – make items that appealed to thousands of beach lovers like him. Bedspreads, sheets, throws, crib sets and duvets are not terms you're likely to discuss with gnarly surf dudes. But Smith is all about thread count and other considerations in the home furnishings field. The company is named after surf legend Dean Miller, whom Smith learned about on his Kauai honeymoon. "Legend says that Dean Miller lived in the rain forest, bathed in the waterfalls and slept on beds of flowers," Smith said. "Bed of flowers" was the a-ha moment for Smith. Taking inspiration from vintage Hawaiian shirts, Smith designed and manufactured his line of surf-inspired bedding for children when all that was available at the time was Laura Ashley and Star Wars. Now Dean Miller Prints has developed into a full line of décor items from curtains to surfboard rugs, quilts and baby gear. Prices range from $24.99 for an infant Burp's Up onesie to $175.00 for king size comforter sets.

To read the full article: http://www.ocregister.com/articles/-292719--.html

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.

Why Surf Bedding is So Important

Why Surf Bedding is So Important:

When it comes to decorating our beach houses with beach decor, surfers spend a lot of time, money, and creative juices on the rooms of their house that the house guests are going to spend the most time in. Rooms like our front entranceway, bathrooms, kitchens, and of course the living room where we do most of our entertaining. The most overlooked room in the beach house is our bedroom, and the bedding we use in not only the master bedroom, but the guest bedroom too. Technically if you have an overnight guest, the spare tropical bedroom will be the room your guest will spend the most time in, lumbering the night away.

With no good explanation most people decorate their bedrooms and pick surf bedding last. Surfers find it hard to justify transforming their own bedroom into a special tropical retreat to make it just as special or unique as the rest of the house. You let your teen transform their room into their own space, they got to pick our their own bedding, surfing wall 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?

It’s time to join the new surfing generation and choose your own unique style to make your surf bedroom a place you can retreat too, relax, unwind, and make it your own personal sanctuary. Nowadays it is so easy to shop for 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 beach bed ensemble delivered to your front door. Your dream tropical room is only a shipment away.

Make a plan for your new surf room, think about everything you will need. The first and most important part of a bedroom is the focal point of the room. This is usually your bed, and the tropical bedding you choose. Anyone walking by your room, or who enters your beach room will be drawn to automatically look at your surf bedding. Your bed is the largest piece of furniture in your room, and good quality bedding is important to showcase and highlight not only your taste in décor, but show some of your personality at the same time.

Once you have chosen a bedding set, its time to decorate from the inside out! Pick out a night lamp that coordinates with your new bedding, throw down a matching rug that will compliment your new bedding, and make a custom framed wall surfing poster to tie everything together. Having a new bedroom will revitalize your spirit to give your room an exciting and new place to come home to every night. A room to stop dreaming in, and now will be one you dreamed of.

Dean Miller Surf Bedding has so many patterns for you choose from, we offer everything from surfboards to tiki men to toned down tropical print bedding. But we don’t stop there, we also offer all the complimentary décor for your 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!

Bring a little Aloha home.

Decorating for a Teenager’s Room
Teen bedding can make a substational difference when decorating for a teenager’s room. Dean Miller can change the whole room’s look just by switching or adding new bedding.

Most parents fear their teenaged child will paint dark moody colors, and put racy photos and posters all over their bedroom walls. Well Dean Miller Surf Bedding is a perfect match for teens and tweens who want to show their tastes as well as leave the room tastefully decorated for their parents.When your son or daughter comes into their teenage years, they are moving from that stage of growing out of their childhood bedding of Star Wars and Barbie Princess sheets. Teens want an identity of their own. They want their room to reflect who they are. Teens want their bedroom to be their space, and they want to express themselves and their likes and desires. Teenagers take pride in how their room may look, even if the bed is never made or clothes are all over the floor.
Adding some new paint and new bedding is all you will probably need to give your teen a fresh new tropical look. You can even spend some quality time with your teen browsing our wide selection of surfing and beach themed prints, and letting them pick which bedding design they like most. And if you re lucky you might be able to guide them in the right design direction to match the rest of your home décor. We have sets made just for teen boys, and some made exclusively for teen girls.
Dean Miller has many surf décor themes to choose from, such as surfing, skateboarding, classic Hawaiian prints, Tiki town, woody cars, surfboard designs, and classic hibiscus tropical flowers. Whatever your teen’s personality is, we probably have a theme to fit him. All designs are available in comforters and duvets, with many other décor choices for you.