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C & F Enterprises is where we get many of our bedding products. C & F Enterprises was established originally in 1976 with the ownership being a woman by the name of Carol Fang. The company started as a one woman operation. They originally focused on imported porcelain and antiques from China, selling the products from Mrs. Fang’s home in Yorktown, Virginia. The business grew steadily with a profit showing every year. This allowed C & F to expand and gain more territory through the southeast United States. In the early 1980’s, the company branched out and began selling table linen and seasonal gift categories. This was a tremendous success. Mrs. Fang then decided to branch out even more and sell handcrafted quilted bedding and merchandise made of needlepoint. Quickly C & F became the leader in these two industries. C & F Enterprise’s success is mainly due to the fact that they have their own design team, which is unlike most other import companies. This gives C & F the ability to be different from their competitors. They also have their own licensing department which means they can obtain designs from the best artists in the country. We carry many products from C & F Enterprises and will be highlighting more about the company and the products we carry at reasonable costs in future blogs. In the meanwhile, if you are ever in the Tampa Bay area, stop by Seaside Home Accents and Gifts or give us a call at 813.839.4544, or send us an email with any questions.

Blue Shells Bedding Collection at Seaside

At Seaside Home Accents and Gifts we want to highlight a bedding collection that we now carry. It’s called our “Blue Shells” bedding collection by C & F Enterprises. This is a beautiful bedding set that is made of the finest quality materials available today at a very reasonable price. The bedding collection includes quilts, shams, pillows, draperies, bed skirts and rugs. They are cotton filled and pre-washed. The quilts are luxury oversized. It is an exciting collection that is beautiful and radiant in its coloring and perfect for the seaside home or for a gift for a loved one. The bedding has a scalloped edge detail and is bright and wonderful for any seaside or tropical home. An excellent quality assemblage, these hand crafted sea shell themed pieces will add coastal flair to your tropical décor. Order today online and the bedding will be shipped directly to your door. We at Seaside Home Accents and Gifts want to make your home the most comfortable and beautiful it can possibly be and we are here for you. Feel free to contact us anytime.

Seaside Home Accents & Gifts...what we are all about...

Sitting in the heart of beautiful Florida is where our store resides. It is a quaint place with the best you can find in accents for your home and/or gifts for others.

Seaside Home Accents and Gifts offer a wide selection of coastal and nautical decorum that will enhance any room in your home. We take considerable time in selecting the articles and products that we offer. We buy only the best and it is represented in the beauty each piece is classically designed in.

We give you, our customers, the utmost in customer service and offer you the ability to order here from our website. It’s simple and will be delivered right to your door. Each week we will focus on different products and give you information that you may not know about with regard to the product.

We will also share news with you about what’s going on here at Seaside Home Accents and Gifts. Additionally we will keep you informed of the industry and what is going on that might interest you.

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Seaside updates and a local artist...

We’ve been pretty busy working on our little store, Seaside, at 1902 S. MacDill Avenue, here in South Tampa and we should be open soon. September is our month and things are moving along nicely…we’ve hung chandeliers, finished painting and repairs, shopped for new and exciting home accessories, coastal pillows, seaside jewelry, and our newest category of beautiful coastal furniture…some of which has arrived…and more of which we are expecting over the next couple of weeks. We’ll update you more on this, as our new pieces arrive…I think this is the most exciting part.

We’ve also been working with a local artist, Heather Kendall, in our little sea shell world. Heather and her inspiring team, custom design works of art for your home, which are reflective of life by the sea. She creates absolutely stunning shell chandeliers, shell mirrors, and decorative home accents. We’ve asked Heather to design a few things for our store…and we are so excited to present them to you. Here is one of our newest items, which will be for sale here at Seaside…

Heather is an unbelievably imaginative individual…who not only has fun with her work, she is extremely conscientious of the environment in bringing nature’s beauty into your home. Did I mention what a beautiful person she is on the inside, as well? All while balancing three growing boys…she’s amazing!

Her works of art are noted in homes literally across the country and her mirrors are a masterpiece of artistic inspiration and dramatic elegance. Several designers around the country regularly use her designs in their projects and I can tell you from seeing her work in person, Heather’s designs are fabulous!

Take a look at this fabulous chandelier she created for us at Seaside. Of course, it is for sale, and it is more stunning in person than we can show through these pictures. I am in love with the soft colors which bring its beautiful sea life into the room. We are so excited for you to come by and see some of her work. You can contact us, as well, about special pieces to be commissioned for your home.

A new sea store look for our online shoppers...

As you know, we’ve been pretty busy working on our new store location at 1902 S. MacDill Avenue, Tampa, Florida 33629, which will be home to all of our coastal décor ideas. It’s been a busy time of making repairs, moving doors, replacing hardware, painting (which I love to do), and generally cleaning our little location. We just love it and I’ll be posting some before and after pictures of the interior shortly. In the meantime, we’ve also been very busy working on a new look for our website, www.SeasideDG.com. We’d love to hear from you about our new look and here is a sneak peak…

Our fabulous web designer, Summer Taylor of Good Dog Bad Dog Creative Design, has brought our latest ideas to fruition and we love it! I hope you do too. Please send us your thoughts...we want to hear from you.

We brought our favorite hues of turquoise, summer blues, and fresh whites into the storefront and focused on our overall designs, leaving the individual coastal treasures to be found inside. We’ve kept our focus on finding the best coastal décor and beach house décor for our wonderful clients…we’ve just added more ideas and have some work ahead of us in adding new product.

In fact, here are a couple of things coming your way…some exciting new additions to our coastal home accents and seaside entertaining pieces…and there is so much more.

We’ll see you soon…and please keep checking back for more this summer.

We’re growing…into a store…

Well we’ve been pretty busy here at Seaside Design Group…spring has sprung…summer is approaching…and new things are just around the corner…most importantly, we have found a location for a store!! All thanks to my husband, who was instrumental in pushing me into this location…we now have a Seaside destination in Tampa. We’ve found a new home for our growing company and an exciting place for our wonderful clients to visit us each day.

It’s so exciting and a little overwhelming but going to be great!! There aren’t too many things to do to our new location since it looks so good but we will be adding some fresh paint inside and a coastal appeal all around, to make our new home an exciting Seaside location. We just can’t wait to show off our new spot…so we’ll be sharing some of our before and after looks.

This is our new South Tampa spot, an old house converted into a business office, at 1902 South MacDill Avenue. We just love it!! We are located at the corner of Angeles and S. MacDill Avenue and hope to open in mid-June. With its cute little gated entrance, which we plan to fill with lots of greenery, flowers and maybe a fountain…this entrance will welcome our friends and customers with lots of coastal fun. We will, of course, let you know about our Grand Opening – once details are finalized!

The votes are in for color of the year…it's Turquoise!!

Pantone…“the authority on color”… has recently announced its color of the year for 2010 and it is Turquoise-Pantone 15-5519! Pantone is the company responsible for exacting color standards in various industries beginning with the graphic arts community, which then expanded into digital technology, the fashion world, contract interiors, paint and more. They are pretty serious about color but are so fun in their use and analysis of each and every tone. I love the meaning given to each hue, for example, Turquoise “…evokes thoughts of soothing, tropical waters and a languorous, effective escape from the everyday troubles of the world, while at the same time restoring our sense of well being”...take a look at their full press release. Wow, that makes me feel like I’m ready for an island vacation and an umbrella drink. Ok - this really is a fun site for planning color changes or even helping to add color to an existing room through use of coordinating coastal home accents, rugs, pillows, or wall decor. They even have a link at the bottom of the pages for a color of the day!

Of course, now that we’ve seen this article, we’ve seen Turquoise everywhere. It’s seared into our long term brain cells. Although, we love this color…we anticipate you will see it a lot this spring and summer. We’ve even run across an array of jewelry inspired by this beautiful shade…and, we will be launching our seaside inspired jewelry very soon. Everything is in the works and we have found some very exciting pieces made by local artists, we hope you will love. They are fabulous!!

So, I was curious…what was the 2009 color of the year? Mimosa - Pantone 14-0848, a warm, engaging yellow. You’ll have to check it out…however, back to Turquoise – this is one of Pantone’s press release pictures for the 2010 vote…I think they are right. It is relaxing and I want to be on that beach! Oh well, back to work…we are getting ready to launch a new look for Seaside so keep an eye on us this spring. We are so excited to bring you so many new coastal decor.