African Theme Decorating - Ideas
Works pretty good! For your living room silk trees, plants etc. place leather around the base of the trees. Introduce interest with a few strands of ground cover.
It’s decorative as well as functional… Do this for that fountain that requires constant filling. Place a 5 gal plastic water bottle into a large decorative basket - perhaps Egyptian. Fix a hand pump in the bottle - bottled water companies carry them for sale. Place any extra upholstery-from your sofa-, drapery material, etc around the bottle. Sit the basket on the floor beside your water fountain. Now it’s an accent piece.
That… would look good in a frame! Hang your wall ornament where you want it to go, place a frame around it. Choose a frame in a complimenting color for both. The wall now acts as a background color. This is great for your African theme decorating.
The final look is dynamite to any feature area, when using the elephant skin technique. Use it on the inside of wall niches.
Install a frame backwards for square recesses. In most cases you can get frames put together in this fashion so they slip into the inside dimensions providing a cap for your recess outside corners.
Get one if your niche needs a light. Installing ten degree halogen spots are the only way to go, for showing off art pieces.
Now that is different ….Place a large piece of leather around a wall mask you are using for your African theme. A longer piece of leather provides you with more creative choices to draw from.
This is cool. Take a large piece of leather, pin it to the wall. Create decorative swirls folds. Add some dried reeds to your creation for texture and colour.
All of these ideas will bring your project closer to the African theme decorating you have set out to achieve.