Beach Bedskirts & Dust Ruffles

A beach theme bedskirt and dust ruffle adds just that special touch to give your bedding a finished look and also complements your tropical-inspired bedroom decor.

Also helpful that it hides anything you may need to store under your bed. You’ve chosen bright solid Caribbean colors of emerald green, mango orange, sunshine yellow, and electric blue for your kid’s twin bed sheets, comforter, shams, and curtains. Get creative and add a beach dust ruffle with fish, beach chairs, surfboards, or hula banders in those same colors; and add a blanket or throw and decorative pillows with starfish and a rug with an underwater tropical fish theme to complete the look.

If you love Hawaiian palm trees and tropical birds, you can mix and match the patterns Tommy Bahama, Nautica, or Thomasville – style and achieve an eclectic, stylish coastal cottage bedroom.


Beach Bedskirt Ideas

Think of the variety of patterns, fabrics, and colors that your dust ruffle comes in that will coordinate with and complement your beach bedding. Whether you’re considering cotton or satin or maybe linen, keep in mind that you’ll need to know how many inches the drop is from your mattress or top of the bedskirt to the floor so that you purchase the right size. The average length (or drop) is 18 inches however you may need one of the other drop options of 12,14,15, 20, 21, or 22 inches. To add a chic feel to your coastal-style queen guest bed, think luxurious pleated satin in a rich turquoise or magenta for the dust ruffle. Maybe a more tailored crisp white bedskirt for the king in your master to complement the navy and white nautical stripes of the duvet cover. What you can imagine, you can create when it comes to shore style and matching dust ruffles.

What is the beach bedskirt?

It’s a decorative piece of fabric that goes under your mattress and drapes to the floor to cover what lies under the bed, it features tropical island patterns and prints or nautical and coastal designs; it is also known as a dust ruffle. There a few options for the finish of the bedskirt; it may have elastic to keep it in place, be detachable, wrap-around, or come with split corners to accommodate your 4 poster bed or footboard. It is considered part of your bed set which also includes your sheets, pillows, shams, comforter, duvet cover, quilt or bedspread.