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Article #41: Principles of Cowboy Home Decor

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Coming under different names - western, textured, and tactile. Suede, wool tweed,
rustic, or cowboy home decor - this birch bark, denim, fur, and even saddle
interior design style creates a very blankets can be used to add the cowboy
different look, both comfortable and theme to a room.
rural. The cowboy home decor uses a lot of Motifs
little details, sometimes very unusual, to There is no question that a motif is
recreate a different era, but you can be necessary when completing the cowboy home
assured that most of these things are decor. They can include any type of
simple and easy to find. animals such as deer, cattle, bear, moose,
Materials or fish. Antlers are extremely popular as
Natural materials like metal, rock, wood, well as a wall hanging or a chandelier,
and leather, traditionally used in the but look for a more creative use for them
West make essential part of the entire to be unique. You could make any of these
cowboy home decor. Furniture in this style items into a candelabrum, candle holder,
is usually made in a larger scale and or even a place to hang up coats according
without any fancy or fussy detail. There to your personal preference.
is plenty of log furniture, twig and Other motifs include outdoor scenes such
branch furniture, and mission style as fishing, riding, hunting, lakes,
furnishings. rivers, pine cones, oak trees,
Colors wildflowers, and grasses. The cowboy home
As with any theme, especially cowboy home decor is all about bringing the outside
decor, color is of the utmost importance in, so do it as much as you can without
to achieve the total look. The wood tends being overwhelmed. Luckily this is one of
to be honey colored and the metals should the decors when more is better.
be black. Accent colors are usually a Cowboy home decor is good not only for
terra cotta, brick red, navy, or forest your home, but also cabin or barn. It will
green, mixed with a neutral background of add a comfortable feel, and can cost you
creams, grays, and tans such as found in a almost nothing. You can use anything -
western style fabric or wall hanging. from horseshoe sconces and twig framed
Fabrics mirrors to old jeans, dried flowers, and
The choice of fabrics should fall on tough quilts. Use your creativity, and enjoy the
types. Leather is perfect for cowboy home fun of decorating your dwelling in such a
decor, as well as anything rough, limitless way.






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