DESIGN DECORATING IDEAS USING NATURE!

by Arizona Custom Home Builder on November 3, 2009

Beyond Antler Chandeliers for the Cabin… Antlers Accessorize Many Home Styles

Design decorating ideas using themes from nature often offers a timeless quality to a home. Often homes have natural products constructed into the home, natural stone floors, granite counter tops, and stone fireplaces. Nature-based accessories often complement the natural materials used in a home and may include animal prints, antlers, trophy animal heads, bear rugs, feathers, shells, rocks, fossils, and eggs. In the right setting these nature-based accessories don’t go out of style. It’s difficult to imagine that a fossil might be a home accessory, in fact, many are so beautiful, and may be great accessories for a home display case.

An antler chandelier in a home seems appropriate for a cabin, a mountain home, or a home by a beautiful lake. Design decorating ideas using antler accessories often works in many more home styles than cabins, mountain homes, and lake homes. As AZ custom home builders, we have constructed contemporary, traditional ranch, Spanish colonial, Tuscan, and Santa Barbara style homes, and nature-based themes may work well in any of these home styles.

The photos below highlight how nature can easily accessorize almost any home.

A deer antler candlestick, antelope trophy and wooden duck decoy adorns a fireplace mantel complementing the natural stone of the fireplace.
A pair of deer antlers placed loosely atop a china hutch; work well with the other display pieces.
A faux addax horn towers along a green plant on a fireplace mantel.
Ostrich eggs fill a large bowl.
River rock lie on the bottom of a natural stone powder room sink.
Black bear rug works well with Tuscan style home on natural stone floor and light furniture.

Design decorating ideas using accessories from nature can work well in a variety of home styles.