Decorating

Rustic Home Decor Never Goes Out of Style

October 29, 2014

If you want a time-tested decor for your home, you can never go wrong with southwest Mexican rustic home decor. Southwest home decor makes any home feel warm and relaxing, whether you live in a desert area, the busy city suburbs or even in a tropical climate. It's difficult to describe Mexican decor in just a few words. It's neither fancy nor bland; neither elegant nor expensive. But it can make your home look and feel like a million!

Living Room with Southwestern Decor -- For the living area, you'll want to coordinate Mexican-style wall decor with the room colors and furnishings. Living rooms that are decorated "Mexican style" often have a rustic look and feel with dark-colored flooring and cream-colored walls. Hardwood flooring with Mexican rugs seem to go together perfectly. If your sofa and chairs have solid colors, accent them with a Mexican decor throw and pillows. Choose rustic wood end tables and decorate them with southwestern decor lamps and matching rustic sconce light covers at the entrances or to enhance your favorite wall painting. Add Talavera pottery to the corners of the room, tabletops, fireplace, or bookshelves.

Mexican Style Kitchen - For the kitchen, simplicity is the key to a welcoming southwestern decor. You can use almost any style of dining table/chairs - wood, metal, glass, etc. Just be sure it will blend with your other decorations. Buy a unique southwestern style China cabinet and fill it with unique dishes and Mexican glassware (margarita or blue rim drinking glasses) and other similar dinnerware. Enhance your kitchen with Mexican style hand towels, mitts, curtains, wall shelves, salt/pepper shakers, and floor rugs.

Bed and Bath Areas - For bedrooms, use the same decorating principles as the living room, but with fewer items. A southwestern Mexican rustic home decor in the bedroom should be simplistic with a few items scattered here and there. Perhaps a Mexican rug, lamp and wall painting will suffice. You'll want to leave the bedroom color options open for your bedspreads.

In the bathroom, Mexican decor should be bold in color with bright colored bath towels and washcloths, Mexican floor tile and bath rugs, a couple of pottery items and a unique southwestern style vanity. The vanity can even be made from an old wooden dresser or table with a hole cut for the sink! Consider a Mexican Talavera pottery sink to add to the bath's beauty.

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