Polynesian Themed Bedroom Makeover!
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My love for this style stems from my love for our Walt Disney World home resort of Disney’s Polynesian Villas & Bungalows, where we are Disney Vacation Club Members (DVC). Anything that reminds me of our second “home” makes me smile, and I also love the retro, 70s vibe it gives me!
I would love to have a full-on Polynesian-themed bedroom, but even just a few key pieces would transform the room.
I’ve put together a mood board with furniture, soft furnishings, and accessories that I think will bring my Polynesian fantasy into reality!
Polynesian Themed Bedroom Makeover
Below is a photo of our DVC room which is the inspiration for this bedroom makeover. When I look at this picture I feel chilled and happy. In our current bedroom, I feel stressed and unable to fully relax.

I already have some items for our Polynesian themed bedroom, including my Tiki God Maui Statue which Steve bought for me last year at Walt Disney World. It’s a mini replica of the huge statue in the Polynesian Village Resort lobby. The tiki torches light up too, which is awesome!
I’ve also got a tiki throw pillow that I bought from Walt Disney World, and I plan to finally buy the Enchanted Tiki Room sign when we go on our next holiday. I’ve wanted to buy it for several years now, and when I tried to buy it last year, it was out of stock. It will be mine though!




Pretty much everything in our bedroom will need to be replaced – we need new flooring, wallpaper, and window dressings. Our bed is old and rickety, and the wardrobes need an update. This really is a from-the-ground-up project.
Walls, Floor & Windows
I’m still undecided on whether to have a carpet or go for wooden flooring with a huge rug – what do you think? My son has laminate in his bedroom and I love the way it looks. As for the wallpaper, I’m still trying to find one that is just right. I want it to be a natural colour with a little texture to it. I had thought about making a feature wall either behind our bed, or behind my desk, but I think I’ll keep it neutral and accent with photographs and art instead.
For the windows, I’ve chosen a lush red voile and natural curtains from JD Williams. This combination is very similar to the ones in our room at the Poly. I love the way that voile diffuses the light (and I hate nets with a passion!!) Our bedroom also has this weird small window that isn’t big enough for a curtain. At the moment there is a cheap Venetian blind covering it, but I plan to replace that with a wooden one instead.


Furniture
Oh go on, I’ll share an old photo of our bedroom when we first moved in – 9 years ago. As you can see – a mish-mash of everything!

I would like to replace the bed with a wooden bed again but in dark wood this time. The one on my mood board is a perfect style. Instead of tearing out the fitted wardrobes and putting new ones in (which will be a headache, never mind a big expense) I plan on staining the wood frames around the mirrors to match the [new, dark] bed frame.
Once we sort out the wardrobes and de-clutter them, we won’t need a set of three drawers as bedside tables. Instead, I’d like to keep it minimal like the side table on my mood board – a drawer for bits and bobs (specs, phone, lip balm, etc); and a shelf underneath for a book or two. And that’s it! We have too much clutter everywhere! I’ve added the rattan chair because I really liked it, and it’s one of the more affordable ones I’ve seen (rattan is so expensive!).
Soft Furnishings
In the inspiration photo, you can see that the duvet cover sets in the Polynesian rooms are white. We have a black cat – she sits on the bed – that is not going to work for us! So I’m thinking either something really bright and bold as most of the decor is already quite muted in colour, or something natural coloured with pops of colour coming from a throw (I’m in love with the DVC throw from Disney!) and throw pillows. I know that they are a love ’em or hate ’em accessory in the home, but I love them! Again, inspired by our DVC room and the colours adorning it, I would go for oranges, blues, greens, and pinks.

Accessories
I think by now we’ve established that I love a theme – my bathroom has a beach theme, my son’s bedroom has a New York City theme, and now our bedroom will have a Polynesian theme! As such, I need just the right accessories…
When I think of the islands of Polynesia, I think of tropical flowers like hibiscus, birds of paradise, the huge leaves of exotic plants like monstera, of pineapples and coconuts, of waves crashing on the shore, surfboards, and tiki gods. And therefore, I have found a few items that I think would be perfect – without being too over the top (although, my Enchanted Tiki Room sign is anything but!)
I have already bought a ceramic pineapple – it’ll hold my rings when I take them off at night. I would have LOVED to have the Maui lamp to match the mini statue I have of him, but (1) I don’t think they sell them. And (2) the voltage of American lights is different from us in the UK. So I’ve found a very kitsch pineapple lamp instead!
I love fresh cut flowers – but they don’t last too long, and I’m rubbish with caring for house plants, so artificial plants from Artificial Eden are just what I need!
I was kindly gifted a Bird of Paradise and Monstera plant, and just LOVE them! No chance of me killing off these beauties!
They look so realistic and bring so much joy to me. It will be like I’m in the tropics the whole year round!


With the blank wall space above our bed, I would hang some art (I really like the trio of tropical leaves on my mood board) – or maybe even get some of my photos turned into a canvas. Here is a couple that I think would fit the bill.



Putting together a mood board for our bedroom makeover has really helped me focus, and I’m very excited to see this room come together. We just need to find some spare weekends in the madness that is our lives at the moment to get the wallpaper up (when we’ve bought it of course!) as that’s the biggest job. Once that’s done, it’ll be a matter of buying the soft furnishings and accessories and going all changing rooms up in here!

Lucy Dorrington
August 11, 2017 @ 9:58 pm
That statue sounded a bit scary, but he’s actually really cute!