Nautical Furniture and Accessories

Charting a Stylish Course with Nautical Furniture

Whether you live by the seaside or are just invigorated by the thought of an ocean location, it's easy to bring this feeling to your home through the use of nautical furniture and accessories. These whimsical and functional additions can make you feel as if you are on an adventurous ocean side holiday every time you step into the room.

Adding a nautical feeling to your home's interior can be as simple as a few well-placed accessories, or you can embrace a stronger statement and add larger pieces of nautical furniture. If you choose to go the nautical accessories route, imagine tossing a few signal flag pillows on your sofa and chairs to subtly evoke the sense of romance and adventure of the high seas. Or if you choose, perhaps an authentic model of a ship's bell can grace the kitchen and perform the useful task of calling the family together for a meal.

Other simple ways that you can chart a course with nautical furniture and accessories involve turning your attention to the room's walls. Decorating the walls with oars, signal flags, or porthole mirrors, or even a combination of the three, can turn your room from an ordinary space into a romantic ship's cabin. Placing these nautical accessories takes just minutes, but you'd be surprised how these little changes add a sense of exotic adventure to the extent that you can almost smell the sea spray and salt water.

For a larger impact, consider replacing ordinary bookshelves with a boat bookcase that is authentic in all of its nautical details. In fact, you'll swear that you could put to sea in these bookcases, but they provide the perfect perch for books and other decorating items. One of the advantages of nautical furniture like these boat bookcases is that they take up little floor space, but they make a noticeable impact on the room's ambiance. Don't forget to continue the nautical frame of mind when you select the items to display on the boat bookcase's shelving: think shells, sand dollars, and Japanese glass floats to strikingly coordinate with the theme.

For added versatility, you can even choose to place the Dory boat bookshelf in horizontal position and use it as a glass-topped table. Not only can the tabletop function for holding items, but the shelves beneath the glass can showcase interesting items as well.

Set sail on a direct course to romance and the sea with stylish nautical furniture and accessories. You'll be surprised at how easy it is to make a big impact using nautical appeal.

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Nautical Accessories

European coastal towns and islands supplied the bulk of sailors over the years. Gone for months or even years their return was a joyful and festive occasion for family and friends. To announce a safe homecoming a small iron or brass anchor was displayed next to the family cottage entrance. The local priest or pastor often blessed these little anchors during church service before the sailor left for a new and uncertain voyage.

Ship Bells are made of heavy solid brass, handmade and sand-cast. The chunky hand knotted lanyard offers years of use. We offer four sizes of bells, petite to large, for beach house or boat. These bells are true nautical heirlooms offering clear & solid sounds.

The helmsman rings the ship’s bell for every half hour of the four-hour ship’s watch. A ship is a round-the-clock operation, and ship’s crews work four hours on and four hours off. To change the routine two two-hour dogwatches usually run between 4 and 8 PM. One bell - One ring (say 12:30)… Two bells - Two rings (say 1 PM)... etc. until... Eight bells - Eight rings (4PM).

Our classic purser bell is made in solid brass with duotone bronze finish. The wood stand is French distressed finished in black. Ring the bell by pulling the hand-knotted bell rope. To toll the hour and assemble the crew. All hands on deck! Sailing around the world? Hmmm, dreaming is allowed. Lured by the ambiance and pull of the oceans. What better to symbolize an armchair sailor’s dreams? An explorer’s globe. A lodestone compass. A purser’s bell… Classic nautical accessories.

Nautical Furniture

Our solid cast porthole mirrors are classic. For nautical inspired rooms, beach cabin porches, executive offices.... These porthole mirrors are not only for nautical aficionados. An ageless solid brass mirror frame that will survive ages when treated properly. All porthole mirrors are actually open up and are easy to mount.

Dispatched for victuals for the captain’s table or canvas for a sail blown away in a storm, gigs were invaluable when in port or moored outside. Referred to as rowboats by land-bound folk, a gig was easy to lower overboard, needed minimum crew, and was quick to dispatch. When stowed, it nested in the long boat or pilot boat secured in the center of the main deck.

Our lapstrake (overlapping strips of wood) small gig boat bookcase and bosun gig boat bookcase are not seaworthy, but they most certainly look like it! Clinker build gig boat adds flair and atmosphere to any room, and display shelves turn them into fun cabinets and bookcases.

Our Dory Boat can be used two ways: as a bookshelf, or as a glass topped table. Two oars, glass top and wooden stand included. Use as table and fill inside with beach finds or upright to display your shells and books. Boat made of crackle finished wood.

Man of Eight Boat Bookcase is an exact replica of a late 19th C. prow of a man-of-eight that once cut through the rippling waters of the inland Thames.

An age-old hallowed tradition. Fraternities. Oxford, Cambridge, Yale, Harvard. Racing eights. An Olympic sport, upper class, academic, admired by the privileged, accessible to the very smart and highly athletic.

These long, narrow and fast wooden racers were cut up in sections when retired. Transformed into bookcases they lined the halls and bars of fraternities the world over. Oars were painted with crests and races, names and dates, and wall-hung.

Classic wooden surfboard. Only a few craftsmen now have the skills needed to build a classic wooden surfboard. Long enough to ride the waves off Waikiki or Malibu. Just short enough to casually lean into a corner of your living room, study, or den… Boards are made of laminated strips of selected light woods. Three fins are included for improved stability.