Palm Beach at Home: Botanical Wallpaper, Rattan, and a Dining Table Worth Copying

The Colony in Palm Beach. This is the room that started the whole post.

Some rooms simply stop you in your tracks. This one certainly stopped me.

The pink walls. The hand-painted palms. The flamingos, monkey, parrot, and that charming pagoda mantel with tiny bells hanging from the eaves. On paper, it sounds like it should all be a bit too much—but somehow, it isn’t. It’s playful, polished, and completely unforgettable.

More than anything, it just makes me happy. And that is exactly why I find myself returning to Palm Beach again and again for design inspiration. Palm Beach style is colorful without feeling childish, glamorous without taking itself too seriously, and always full of personality.

Here are a few beautiful things I’ve been saving lately, along with some easy ways to bring a touch of Palm Beach charm into your own home—without repainting every room or covering the walls in palm-print wallpaper. Unless, of course, you want to. In that case, I fully support it.

Start With the Palette, Not the Wallpaper

Nearly every room I love in this style is built around the same five elements: blush pink, sage green, warm ivory, natural rattan, and touches of brass.

The pink should feel warm and sophisticated rather than overly sweet. Sage green grounds the room and quietly does much of the heavy lifting. Warm ivory gives all that lovely color somewhere to rest, while natural rattan adds texture and keeps everything from feeling too formal. Finally, a touch of brass brings in just enough shine to make the entire room feel polished and intentional.

If you remember only one thing, let it be the balance. Begin with plenty of warm ivory, layer in rattan and green through the furniture and larger pieces, and use pink in smaller doses—preferably in places that will make you smile every time you see them.

If You Want These Colors on Your Walls

Blush pink — Malted Milk SW 6057

Coral, if you want more punch than the blush — Coral Reef SW 6606

Sage green — Clary Sage SW 6178

Warm ivory — Alabaster SW 7008

Natural rattan — Nomadic Desert SW 6107

Brass, of course, is not a paint color. Bring it into the room through your hardware, lamp bases, mirror frames, and other decorative details. Let it remain a metal finish—the little bit of jewelry that helps pull the entire room together.

Before committing to any paint color, sample it on your own walls and look at it throughout the day. Paint can appear completely different in the soft morning light than it does beneath a lamp in the evening. And if we’re being honest, that tiny paint chip from the store rarely tells the whole story.

The lobby at the Colony. Rattan, palms, and black chairs doing all the work.

The Detail I Keep Coming Back To

I keep coming back to hand-painted botanical wallpaper—especially designs with a soft pink background, leafy greens, and just a few cheerful touches of yellow. The Simone Mural by Paul Ferney is the one I find myself saving again and again.

What makes a pattern like this work is not simply the wallpaper itself. It’s that the wallpaper is allowed to do all the talking. Everything placed in front of it remains wonderfully understated: a simple white table, natural rattan chairs, and perhaps one pretty pink vase.

Add a busy rug and a full gallery wall to the same room, and all that charm can quickly turn into chaos. Suddenly, the room simply doesn’t know where to look.

That is the secret to decorating with bold wallpaper: choose one statement-maker and allow everything else to remain calm.

Covering an entire room can feel like a big commitment—and truthfully, it is. A powder room is where I would begin. It’s small, you’re never in there for very long, and it’s the one room in the house where you’re absolutely allowed to be a little dramatic.

The Table—and Its Lovely Look-Alike

It’s the sculptural pedestal base that caught my eye. The carved texture, hourglass shape, and slightly vintage feel make it look like a piece you discovered somewhere special rather than one that simply arrived in a box.

The original is the Gabriella White Montello 42-inch Round Pedestal Dining Table. I also found a similar style from TOV Furniture on Amazon in a warm beige finish.

Both tables bring the same lovely qualities to a room: warmth, texture, and a base that deserves to be seen. That detail is especially important in a breakfast nook, where the table is visible from nearly every angle. Unlike a formal dining room, there’s really no hiding an uninspired table base behind a long tablecloth or a full set of chairs.

What’s in My Cart

Mostly smaller pieces—the finishing touches that make a room feel thoughtfully collected rather than ordered all at once.

I’m currently drawn to a chinoiserie-inspired faux-bamboo mirror with a pagoda top, pink palm-tree wallpaper for bringing in the look on a smaller scale, a round handmade jute rug, a table lamp with a cone-shaped raffia shade, a floral ceramic ginger jar, and a blue scalloped accent table.

If I were choosing only two, I would start with the scalloped accent table and the raffia-shade lamp. Both add texture and an interesting silhouette without introducing another pattern. Sometimes, a room doesn’t need more color—it simply needs a better mix of shapes.

Two more pieces I keep coming back to are both from Society Social. The Pink Paradise Chair is exactly the shade of blush I described earlier—warm and sophisticated rather than overly sweet. Its airy frame keeps it from feeling too heavy or taking over the room.

The Seaside Wavy Cocktail Table is all about its beautiful silhouette rather than a busy pattern. It’s exactly the kind of piece that can bring a room to life without adding another color to the mix.

I’ll always share the names and sources for the pieces I love because, as far as I’m concerned, a beautiful photograph without a source is just a tease. Everything featured here is something you can actually find and bring into your own home.

If You’re Renovating, Not Just Decorating

Everything we’ve talked about so far is the fun part. But before you get to the wallpaper, lighting, and pretty finishing touches, there are quite a few less-glamorous decisions to make—and those decisions often matter the most.

We’re now on our fourth renovation, and I’ve learned that the rooms that turn out best are usually the ones planned well before demolition begins. Making important decisions early gives you time to change your mind without also changing your budget. And trust me, changing your mind is much more enjoyable when it’s still free.

I gathered everything I’ve learned into a free remodel checklist, including what to decide first, which questions to ask a contractor before signing, and the order in which the work actually happens.

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