Enhancing Home Spaces with Sea Style

Home Décor Best-Sellers at Beach and Resort Stores

Anyone relaxing by the shore – or fortunate enough to have a beach house of their own! –will likely have the bandwidth for thoughts of home décor. Whether they’re seeking treasures for a seaside home or an inland locale, the hunt is half the fun. For this article, four gift shops in coastal settings shared some of their best-selling décor items and the broad style trends they are seeing.

Air Plants have caught on at Rosemary Beach Trading Company in Rosemary Beach, Fla. “We have a lot of little types of vases and I’ve been ordering and outfitting them with air plants. Those have been selling really well this year,” said General Manager and Buyer Kiki Gillespie . The approximately 1,000-square-foot store has also been doing a brisk business in decorative pillows, including selections from Santa Barbara Design Studio. Pillows from that line are adorned with sayings such as ‘We Are Beach People’ and ‘Always by the Sea.’ “We carry some solid and stripey pillows too, that all kind of match and flow with them,” Gillespie added.

Since Rosemary Beach Trading Company is situated in a Gulf Coast community, shoppers favor items with blue and green accents. “People use those colors in their houses around here,” Gillespie confirmed. “We tend to buy a lot of merchandise that is blue and green and white.” She has also noticed people gravitating towards tableware which incorporates wicker. “We have drinking glasses that feature wicker holders. There’s a matching pitcher and salad bowls that incorporate the same idea. It’s a very beachy, very outdoorsy look.”

Candles top home décor sales at Areo, a home design and gift store located in Laguna Beach, Calif. “We have so many different kinds of candles from a variety of vendors,” said Store Manager Heidi Haneckow . Brands such as Lafco and Votivo are popular. The 977-square-foot store also features a collection of all natural, hand-poured soy candles from a local company called The Hundredth Acre. “They have a scent called Laguna – it’s their take on