Decorating

Spice Up Your Rooms

October 5, 2017

Spice up your life by re-decorating a room using a Mexican or Southwest style of decor. Everything from curtains, pillows, sculptures, wall hangings, and even dinner table accessories will help add that needed spice you crave. When re-decorating a room, you need to consider three things: visual composition, size, and comfort.

We all know the universal "less is more" philosophy and sometimes all you need is a few minor adjustments here and there. A bigger room allows for more flexibility but it can also lead to overdressing. The new and improved version of your living room, bedroom, or even dining room should enhance the room's architectural qualities such as high ceilings or scenic windows. The decor should accent the room's qualities using furniture, lighting, textiles, flooring, chosen color palette, and an eclectic collection of accessories.

Your line of sight should direct attention to the room's qualities or an object that accents those qualities. For example, if you want to accent a room's high ceilings, a large size Mexican style art with a hefty frame is perfect on a bold hue background wall. The intensity of your palette should be directly correlated with the size of the room. Use lighter hues for smaller rooms and bolder hues for ample rooms. For a Mexican or even a Southwest style decor you can use colors such as Orange, Blue, Yellow, Lime Green, Brown, and Deep Red or Burgundy.

The color of the furniture should also accent the overall Mexican Decor theme. Furniture that comes in bold colors works best with this theme but if buying new furniture is not economically feasible, you can use a brightly colored afghan to dress up any table or couch. If you get a big enough sofa cover, you get a quick fix with less money. Unique home accessories should accent the furniture and these things help the overall visual composition of the room.

For example, a well decorated room may make use of a lot of the wrought iron look and then as a centerpiece in a dark colored coffee table, you can have lime Green and White luxurious onyx sculpture of a frog. Or perhaps the focal point of your spacious dining room may be your mahogany table. In this case, you can add that Mexican or Southwest feel with a couple of bright red chili pepper shaped salt and pepper shakers. Accessories can be hard to find, especially for Latin or Southwest decor.

Following these simple but important guidelines will help create an agreeable atmosphere. You must fight the urge to stay home all day in such a wonderful atmosphere , your own private beautiful sanctuary.

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