Ice, Cool, Baby | Slipcovers for Your Walls

These places are Ice, Cool, Baby.

Since it’s sweltering hot outside, maybe it would cool us all off to see some chilly interiors like these icy, cool digs.

ice hotel on slipcovers for your walls — The Ice Hotel in Sweden

The Ice Hotel is a fantasy oriented get away that might seem really practical right now. Too bad it is only open during certain months of the year. It closes in April with surrounding activities throughout the year and the ability to stay in a neighboring, non-ice hotel. The main Ice hotel is built in the fall and ready for visitors in December to sleep in its themed rooms on beds of ice and lots of bear skins. It’s located on the banks of the Torne River in Jukkasjarvi, the Lapland area of Sweden. It’s rebuilt every winter as an elaborate art project that is never the same. Luckily this summer, however you don’t have to wait until December. This is the first year that you can experience their famous Ice Bar and three themed suites in a mini version of the hotel from June through August.

It's and Ice, Cool, Baby Hotel Icebar via Culture Shoq on casartblog — The Ice Hotel’s Icebar has other locations like Oslo, London and Tokyo

You don’t have to rely just on ice to cool you down while you’re in Sweden. You can stay in a one a a kind treehouse the Tree Hotel where the mere height causes the temperature to drop. These aren’t just any birdhouse bedchambers but state-of-the-art architecture with cabins on stilts, made of mirrors, and a real-life-looking, enclosed birdsnest. If you don’t like these, you have the option of The UFO or The Sauna chambers.

The Tree Hotes seen on Slipcovers for your walls, casartblog — The Blue Cone Cabin at the Tree Hotel

The Cabin at the Tree Hotel as seen on Slipcovers for your walls, casartblog — The Cabin seems to float as one of the “rooms” at the Tree Hotel

Bird's Nest at The Tree Hotel as seen on Slipcovers for your walls, casartblog — The Bird’s Nest “room” at The Tree Hotel

Just when you’re thinking this is getting a little fantastical, you can always come back down to earth from the perch to sleep in a cool room at The Hezen Cave Hotel in Cappadocia, Turkey.

Room at Cave Hotel seen on Slipcovers for your walls, casartblog — A room at The Cave Hotel but with a view?

Personally, I prefer the view from outside the cave, which looks like where I’d like to be having breakfast or a late afternoon cocktail. Cappadocia is the area with it’s many unusual cave formations that inspired Dr. Seus’ imagination to create his many strange lands in his surreal yet endearing children’s stories.

But you don’t have to go all the way there to get a similar fantasy and cool experience. You can convert any underground dwelling into a far out getaway. I love the way this bomb shelter was converted. This is like a child’s haven for adults. The lighting really makes it work. You don’t even have to be outside, where it still may be 100 degrees, to see a beautiful sunset.

Jay_Swazedesign for Girard Henderson_WT as seen on Slipcovers for your walls — Jay Swazedesign for Girard Henderson’s Los Angeles bomb shelter

Another cooling tactic is to cover your walls in ice blue, even temporarily if you like, with a light blue faux linen Casart. You can always remove and reuse this wallcovering later and reuse it for the next sweltering summer.