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Enhancing Your guest room By Accenting It With A southwestern Decorating Scheme |
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Even if you have a small budget you can produce a southwestern look in your guest room with a few small changes, such as painting and coordinating your bedding and pillows to add a little bit of southwest. When renovating you need to think about floor coverings, lights, accessories and wall coverings in addition to your bed and bureaus. Flooring can make or break your decor, but if you can not pay for new flooring in your guest room then work with what you have by covering them in area rugs that have a southwestern look. If you are lucky enough to be able to afford new floors, consider using clay tile floors or Native American woven area rugs. Window treatments can can enhance your southwestern design theme. To have a sharp look in your guest room you might try installing south western print on cotton or wooden blinds. There are multiple window treatments that you can match up to this style, particularly if you match other fabrics or colors in the room, but you want to avoid velvet drapes and ruffles. Accessories are a must to pulling your southwestern design theme together. Even if you can't replace any other items - you can get a new look with different decorative accessories! Focus on buying bedding, pillows and artwork, in in colors that compliment your southwestern look. You'll be pleased at how simple and cheap it is, and what an incredible difference these changes make! Be sure to add in lots of American Indian pottery bowls together with water jugs in pottery and you should even try certain Mexican decorated plates to display on the walls to really spruce up your guest room. Extra touches such as horse or ranch related memorabilia can give you a professional look like it came from a magazine. Lighting is important in any room and the guest room is no exception. To enhance your southwestern interior design, you should think about lighting in terms of style as well as type. If you will be going for a southwestern look, you may want to think about installing metal, wood or antler chandelier with wrought iron sconces and lamps but Always pass up anything that is frilly cystal with prisms. The majority of guest rooms can benefit from nightstand lamps combined with an overhead light. A critical change to contemplate when decorating your guest room with a southwestern Interior Design is what you put on the walls. For this design style the the colors can make or break the look - take a look at having reds, blacks and tans and blues and oranges on your walls or in your accessories. Try using a stucco plaster on the walls, or if you want something different go with paint with southwestern stencils or wallpaper borders. It doesn't need to cost a lot and if you are afraid of a bit of color, simply paint the walls a neutral paint and let the accents in the room do the decorating. It's not crucial that you match your bed, bureaus, and side table but the guest room should have lots of western style furnishings. To really showcase the southwestern design theme, consider pieces that have a light stain. One big decorating area that you have got to work on when decorating your room are your walls. Even the plainest walls can be made to look good by incorporating decorative wall art and accessories. Try adding horse skulls, framed prints, a collection of branding irons displayed in a grouping to your guest room walls to really bring out the country style of your southwestern theme. Accomplishing a wonderful southwestern look in your guest room can be as difficult or simple as you want it to be. Either way, attention to the fine details and being sure to match your decorative accessories and furniture will help you coordinate a terrific new southwestern style that you will be proud to claim you accomplished on your own! |
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