Restaurant decoration can make a difference in how people feel about going to a particular restaurant. Our goal is to bring to your restaurant that same relaxing, and soothing feeling associated with the ocean that some say stimulates the appetite.
Coastal cottage decor is chic and comfort all rolled into one. Chippy paint furniture, whimsical beach themed designs and easy to care for fabrics make this a perfect choice for the family room...
We’re going to talk about three different types of oars, the traditional or classic decorative oar, oars with hooks, and oar coat stands; we’ll give you tips on how to select and position your oars for greater appeal to achieve the desired look.
Decorative portholes come in different finishes and sizes, i.e. verdigris, rust, aluminum, brass, bronze and others. Size may vary for example from nine inches to twenty inches. We will give you tips on how to select a porthole and ideas on how to incorporate it in your decor for greater appeal.
Creating a nautical theme nursery is exciting, we want to get everything right, we want it to be attractive and so user friendly while conveying a nautical theme. We’re going to give you some tips to help you create a beautiful and very practical nautical theme nursery.
A nautical home accessory can have great impact in a nautical room. Accessories bring the decor together and give a finished look to a space. Here, you'll find decor tips for using nautical home accessories to help you achieve the perfect look.
A nautical theme office typically offers a very interesting work setting and is not difficult to accomplish. Here you'll find some nautical decor office tips to help you achieve this look.
If recent search statistics are to be believed, then a gift to do with the sea is the more "popular". What is it, then, about a gift of a nautical origin or inspiration, that makes them so popular?
The ship in a bottle is a type of mechanical puzzle called an impossible bottle. It is called this because items thought be impossible to fit inside a bottle are placed there, leaving the observer to wonder how it came to be.
Ship modeling has a very long and rich history and continues to serve numerous functions. Large finely built models are displayed in museums to represent historical ships. Many of the higher quality models capture intricate details of the originals, making them very appealing for interior decor; from the fine ornements on historical ships such as the HMS Victory, or the Sovereign of the Seas, to little pirates on the deck of a pirate ship...
Mystic Seaport celebrates the seafaring past of New England. Known as The Museum of America and the Sea, the seaport is an entertaining journey through 19th century nautical life.
This is most definitely an interesting mix of history, symbolism and best of all tattoos. Tattoos picturing symbolic ship anchors have been a huge part of tattooing in the western world for over two centuries... Originally sailors, navy servicemen, and other maritime workers would get anchor tattoos. These anchor tattoos have become...
One of the most important methods of transportation, to both the economy of the area as well as its people, was traveling by ship. As Greece is partially a group of islands, there was no way to get to the mainland of Europe by simply riding a horse or taking a chariot. Instead, anyone who wished to travel outside of Greece, or any traders who wanted to get materials from different parts of the world, had to use boats to...
Those guys that go "ooh ar" and run around swinging cutlasses from behind a guy with a wooden leg and a parrot on his shoulder and a hook for a hand? No, dispel that image immediately as they are not that sort of cutthroat at all. Pirates are around and with us here today and as with all things in life they have modernized their methods, disposed of the parrots and hooks for hands and the Pirates Union strictly states that those with wooden legs ...
There were lots of pirates hanging around Panama during the 17th and 18th centuries and with good reason. Panama was the richest area belonging to Spain, as almost all of the gold that was pillaged from the Inca Empire and other wealthy Indian nations was filtered through counting houses on Contadora in the Pearl Islands, Panama City, and Portobelo. The counting houses were where the gold and other valuables were tallied and ...
