Primitive Decorating For The Modern Home
Several guidelines towards beautifying your home will help if you desire to redecorate with a primitive, earthy aesthetic. First, it is best to choose an area to focus your decorating around, as you should avoid a jumbled mixture of different aesthetics for your home.
Travel enthusiasts will choose a favorite vacation destination. Then the theme of the home's decor will be built around a few souvenirs that have been brought back from the trip. Photographs from the travels can also be included in the design. Large wooden picture frames will add to the appearance of your photos and will integrate them into your primitive decorating theme.
You also might want to pay special attention to the colors in your home. A clever way to balance your color palette is to choose a specific tribal article and reproduce its dominant and secondary colors using paint, fabrics, and other things around your home. The best colors for primitive decorating could include rich organic tones such as browns, auburns, crimsons, and oranges. Minor accent colors would include yellows, pale blues and greens, and bright reds.
After choosing several distinctive items - maybe some lovely fabrics or figures - to build your rooms around, you can choose the rest of the decor. Pay close attention to the textiles since they can truly give the room a primitive feel. Lush, hand-woven floor coverings, throws, and scarves can be used to adorn floors and walls, as well as beds and tables. Look for vibrantly colored organic textiles and materials, or animal skins, if you like.
You also might want to be attentive to the colors in your home. A good way to balance your color palette is to pick a particular tribal object and replicate its major and minor colors using paint, textiles, and other objects around your home. Great colors for primitive decorating might include rich earth tones like browns, auburns, reds, and oranges. Yellows, pale blues and greens, and bright reds can serve as minor accent colors.
Natural woods are also a great choice for primitive decorating. Look for furniture composed of unmilled logs and rich-hued natural wood like redwood, cherry, and maple. Choose tropical woods if they are harvested in environmentally-friendly ways. Hand-carved accents and painted details can also be welcome additions.
If you're thinking about doing some interior redecorating using an earthy, primitive aesthetic, there are some general guidelines you can follow to help beautify your home. First, it makes sense to pick a region to focus your decorating on. Travel enthusiasts will choose a favorite vacation destination. However, if you're not much of a traveler, or the locations you enjoy visiting have strict import rules, you can purchase authentic tribal objects from an online specialty retailer. Use of natural woods in primitive decorating is an excellent idea. Furniture made from unmilled logs and rich-hued woods like cherry, redwood and maple is very attractive.
Published November 14th, 2007
Filed in Home, Real Estate