- •African Decorating – Bringing the Savannah to Your Home
- •The terms Arts and Crafts
- •Asian Interiors – Head to the East for Simple Decoration
- •British India – Where Style Rules Over the Land
- •Casual Design
- •Contemporary design
- •Decorating According to Feng Shui
- •Italian Design
- •Japanese Interiors as a Different Way of Looking at Colors
- •Asian Interior Decorating. Less is more
- •Mediterranean Design
- •Some Final Mediterranean Inspiration for Home Decoration
- •Minimalist design
- •Mexican Interior Decoration, South of the Border Style
- •Mediterranean design
- •Some Final Mediterranean Inspiration for Home Decoration
- •Decorating in the Moroccan style; a trend or fixture
- •Retro Design But what is meant by Vintage retro?
- •Swedish design
- •Tropical Design
- •Design in The Tuscan Style
- •Victorian Design
- •Important furniture pieces for the important rooms
- •Rustic Design
- •Traditional Design
Some Final Mediterranean Inspiration for Home Decoration
What you want to accomplish is a point of interest, a touch that impresses, a subtle surprise at every turn. If there is one decorating theme with the abundance of choice and style to make that happen this is it.
As you sit to work your plan be carried away to lunch at an estate winery near the Mediterranean coast. It is to be in a small, almost enclosed courtyard hidden behind an aged sunflower yellow stucco wall.
From the stone pathway you can only catch short glimpses of the setting through grilled windows as you approach the heavy, weathered wooden door way. The door is adorned with cast iron florets and above is a slope of clay roofing tiles (These are just some decorating ideas for sloped walls). Lying seductively behind is the romance of your own finished home.
Decorating in the Moroccan style; a trend or fixture
We’re always looking for new and interesting ways to express ourselves through the way we decorate our homes. The search has led to north Africa. Spun out of the success of Santa Fe and Southwestern styling, Moroccan decorating is a hot item in America.
It is perhaps too early to tell about permanence but, similarities with other long standing design successes such as Mediterranean, Tuscan, Mexican Colonial, and Southwestern tend to indicate Moroccan decorating in it’s present form or deviation, should be with us for an extended visit.
Why Moroccan
Morocco really is an intricate mosaic. At the bridgehead of Europe and Africa and the crossroads where east fades into west, exotic, mysterious Morocco is uncovered in it’s design and decoration.
In case you are in need of stimulation to delve into the possibilities Moroccan decorating offers, pause upon names of such locales as Casablanca, Tangier, Rabat and Marrakesh to arouse some imagery.
Get ready for rich vibrant colors. Prepare for excess.
Plan to submit to the intrigue of the styles and cultures.
Moroccan Interior Design Colors
Long on coastal seas, backed into desert and baked under a relentless sun, Moroccans take inspiration from the colors their geography provides.
Hot, vibrant oranges and reds are refreshed by deep blues and sparkling greens of the sea. Ochre mountain ranges, silvery moonlit desert-scapes and golden sands. Colors in abundance as you’ve never used before.
Deep blue for example isn’t reserved for accents. It can provide the dramatic backdrop for an entire room arrangement of darkened wood furnishings, terra cotta tile, and accenting multi-colored oriental rugs. Adornments of jewel-like glass works, bold patterned fabrics in sea and sand inspired colors draped from the walls and for oversized pillows.
Remember you’ve been for warned to prepare for excess.
Lots of texture
The materials and methods used in Moroccan decorating are an art from the ages. Modern design lines and high tech production techniques don’t apply here. Very few smooth, sleek materials figure in the mix. The blending of a multitude of textures and shapes is captivating.
You can tone down the drama of the first room by switching to highly textured, white washed walls in the next. Darkened wood plank floors layered with sand tone, natural fiber Berber area rugs add texture and calm under foot. For a sense of the dramatic, try draping fabric from the ceiling this time.
While you’re going strong, why not some gold and sea foam green upholstery. Add hallmark mosaics and vibrant orange/red artwork in intricately carved wood and camel bone frames to the walls. Set huge woven baskets for exotic plants and flower arrangements upon collections of smooth sun bleached stones to complete this look.
Need more materials for inspiration
Use colorful mosaic tables to brighten a room. Hand carved wood and camel bone lamps and lanterns are famed. Find interesting burnished metallic works of art to adorn a barren wall. Assortments of metallic ribbon brocades can be used on walls, floors or furnishings. Jewel toned silks; influenced by interior design ideas of Indian homes, make great throws or covering for massive pillows.
If some renovation work is involved in your make-over, install faux stone pillars in openings and design mosque tower shapes into interior design bulkheads. Arch some entry ways and where possible replace some interior doors with wrought iron banisters and gates.
Don’t forget about the power of scent. Cachets of cinnamon, nutmeg and exotic spices can whisk the mind to the markets of Marrakesh.
There are many Moroccos. Much of the Mediterranean north coast and particularly Spain, has been Moorish influenced. Look here to uncover familiar elements such as wrought iron grill work, tiles and tejas. Apply them without fear in your own adaptations of Moroccan styling. The south of France and Tuscany offer other resources to loan back to their Moroccan source.
Your lead
One of the really nice things about being on the edge of an entry level decorating fashion trend is that the guidelines have not been completely set. There isn’t a firm statement on what is right and what is wrong so assert your individuality.
If you do just a little study of the area and its culture you can grasp hold of your own mosaic ideas and apply new untried elements. May be that it is as simple as dried reeds from a desert oasis arranged in an over sized blown glass vase. Now, it’s your lead.
Retro! The word always brings a smile as we think of days gone by and how much better some things were; at least in our memory of those times then they are now.