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Must Have Decor: Entire Hotel Suites For SaleCall it prefab luxury decorating: If you like what you see in a cushy hotel suite, take the whole thing home. You can buy the tables, chairs, towels, martini glasses, even the bed. About the only thing you can't take with you is the maid.
As the idea of making a home look and feel more resortlike has caught on, interior designers, furniture manufacturers and landscape contractors have cribbed ideas from hotels and scaled them down to fit residences. But over the last year, more hotels have started selling their furniture and smaller items for the home.
Westin Hotels & Resorts inadvertently might have pioneered the trend. If they had a spare nightstand, they would sell it. After the hotel chain upgraded its beds five years ago, there was a long waiting list of guests who wanted to buy the new custom mattress, padding, pillow and linens. This year, Westin expects to sell guests $8 million worth of bedding.
When Shutters on the Beach in Santa Monica, Calif., finishes its remodel early next year, it will introduce a custom line of beach-house tables and headboards and offer them for sale.
At the St. Regis Monarch Beach in Dana Point, Calif., a glossy brochure glowingly describes the hotel's chairs, rugs and barware, with prices included. Call a toll-free number or jump on its Web site, and you can order a 9-by-12-foot wool rug for $4,200 that can be deliver
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