Decorating Your Island Apartment

At Kalaeloa Rental Homes of Kapolei, we invite you to embrace the island lifestyle with amenities and features designed to make you feel at home. Decorating your rental space in true Hawaiian style adds personality, color, and life to your living space while enhancing its luxurious features and finishes.

Add Colors and Patterns

The Hawaiian Islands are alive with many shades of color found in the plant life, the ocean, the mountains, and the wildlife. Decorating in Hawaiian style means bringing this colorful landscape inside your home with brightly-colored accents and large tropical patterns. However, keep in mind that bringing color and pattern inside doesn’t mean your home needs to look like a touristy Hawaiian shirt! Choose a complementary palette of two to three island-inspired colors and incorporate different shades of these colors in your home for flow and coherence. Keep patterns large but subtle and limit eye-catching accessories to one or two per room to avoid overloading the senses.

Include Culture

The Hawaiian culture offers a rich variety of ways to accessorize your home. If you prefer to create a “beachy” feel in your apartment, add décor that emphasizes sea, sand, and surfing. Small (or large) surfboards or pieces of driftwood make excellent accessories when placed in a corner or hung on the wall. You can add floral beauty to your home by circling the bases of lamps, candles, or other accessories with leis or hanging large palm fronds on the walls to create the feeling of living in a tropical forest. The best places to find the perfect cultural accessories for your Hawaiian home are the local farmers’ markets, artisan fairs, and cultural centers. Adding one-of-a-kind cultural accents to your home will imbue it with an island personality all its own.

Embrace Your Lanai

The Hawaiian lanai is an open-sided roofed porch that shares one common wall with your home. Your lanai is designed for outdoor living in the utmost comfort, providing a gathering space for meals, family activities, parties, and even quiet appreciation of the island landscape. Because the lanai is such an integral part of the Hawaiian home, it’s important to incorporate your lanai into your home’s décor. Continue your decorating style outdoors with area rugs and comfortable furniture. Keep your décor and furniture style light, airy, and open to enhance the openness of your lanai. Consider adding a hammock for late afternoon naps or a cozy reading spot where you can enjoy the tropical sunset. Accessorize your lanai with a variety of plants and flowers to blur the lines between your home and the natural landscape beyond, creating a true outdoor room where you can commune with nature.

Discover the beauty of island living when you make your home at Kalaeloa Rental Homes near Ewa Beach and Pearl Harbor. Our community is comprised of three neighborhoods where you can work, live, play, and relax in island style. We invite you to explore our website, where you can check out our eleven different floor plans, including the Plantinum features found in our Makai neighborhood rental homes and apartments. If you’re ready to discuss your leasing options today, contact us online to get started!