Giant clam shells are great sculptural objects. Here are some decor ideas.
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Giant clam shells make impressive coastal decor accents anywhere in the home. Coastal room by Kate Jackson Design, placing a giant clam shell on the coffee table.
A giant clam shell decorating idea that draws the eye up.
In Ali Wentworth's Home in Washington DC, you find a giant clam shell owning the space in the fireplace.
Filling the space underneath a side table. Via Martha Stewart.
Another example of a stunning giant clam shell sink, featured on House Beautiful.
And a garden fountain made with giant clam shells by Historic Garden Design via Houzz, featured on Coastal Beach Sen Garden Landscaping Ideas.
And here a few interesting facts about Real Live Giant Clam Shells via National Geographic:
The giant clam gets only one chance to find a nice home. Once it fastens itself to a spot on a reef, there it sits for the rest of its life.
These bottom-dwelling behemoths are the largest mollusks on Earth, capable of reaching 4 feet (1.2 meters) in length and weighing more than 500 pounds (227 kg). They live in the warm waters of the South Pacific and Indian oceans.
Giant clams achieve their enormous proportions by consuming the sugars and proteins produced by the billions of algae that live in their tissues. In exchange, they offer the algae a safe home and regular access to sunlight for photosynthesis, basking by day below the water's surface with their fluted shells open and their multi-colored mantles exposed.
Giant clams have a wildly undeserved reputation as man-eaters, with South Pacific legends describing clams that lie in wait to trap unsuspecting swimmers or swallow them whole. No account of a human death by giant clam has ever been substantiated.
Giant Clam Shells Make Great Bowls & Planters, but they also look stunning just by themselves as sculptural pieces. Since giant clam shells are over harvested from the ocean for food, decor and the aquarium trade, get a clam shell cast in resin or stone. Most of the giant clam shells used for decor these days are cast clams.
Image: The Inspired Room
A giant clam shell decorating idea that draws the eye up.In Ali Wentworth's Home in Washington DC, you find a giant clam shell owning the space in the fireplace.Filling the space underneath a side table. Via Martha Stewart.
Designer Another example of a stunning giant clam shell sink, featured on House Beautiful.And here a few interesting facts about Real Live Giant Clam Shells via National Geographic:The giant clam gets only one chance to find a nice home. Once it fastens itself to a spot on a reef, there it sits for the rest of its life.
These bottom-dwelling behemoths are the largest mollusks on Earth, capable of reaching 4 feet (1.2 meters) in length and weighing more than 500 pounds (227 kg). They live in the warm waters of the South Pacific and Indian oceans.
Giant clams achieve their enormous proportions by consuming the sugars and proteins produced by the billions of algae that live in their tissues. In exchange, they offer the algae a safe home and regular access to sunlight for photosynthesis, basking by day below the water's surface with their fluted shells open and their multi-colored mantles exposed.
Giant clams have a wildly undeserved reputation as man-eaters, with South Pacific legends describing clams that lie in wait to trap unsuspecting swimmers or swallow them whole. No account of a human death by giant clam has ever been substantiated.
