You don t need to be a very outdoorsy person to appreciate rustic home decor. You can be very an urban, city girl and still like a few accent pieces of rustic decor in your home. Or you could be one of those people who live for camping trips and hiking in the wilderness. You would trade a log cabin for a hotel any day. Then, your love for rustic decor would reflect in your home and other belongings.
You need not make your entire home look like a cabin in the woods, but if rustic home decor interests you, you could have fun with that in just one room or area of your home. The powder room or guest room could be a good idea to display your love for the outdoors because you don t see these spaces everyday and therefore it has fewer chances of getting overbearing.
A Rustic Guest Room
You could paint the walls or just one accent wall- a deep shade of forest green or burgundy to go with the theme. You can then buy a quilt with a tree or bear motif for the bed spread. If your budget allows, you could have a bed frame fashioned out of wooden logs to give that cabin feeling even if you are on the 26th floor in upper Manhattan!
Window treatments can be purchased at stores or even fashioned yourself with fabric going along with your theme. Some framed art or perhaps pictures of you and your family on a particularly exciting or hilarious camping trip can adorn the walls.
If you look for rustic home decor items online, you will easily find towel hangers, clocks and everything in between with bear, deer or tree themes. The sky is the limit, which can be an inspiration in itself if you would like to paint the ceiling like a night sky so as to give the feeling that one is sleeping outdoors.
Rustic home decor is not the latest fad that will pass away with the season; the greens, reds and browns that it has become so famous for will be evergreen and so you need not worry about your room feeling dated very soon. You can opt for wooden or metal fixtures and accents based on your preference and budget. Whatever you do choose, keep it as a reminder for you to enjoy the outdoors once in a while, even if you are in Manhattan!
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