Yellow brings the sun into your living room.
Create a relaxed, Old World feeling by decorating your living room in a Mediterranean style, using colors of the earth and sea--yellows, oranges, golds and blues. Bring the charm of Spain, Italy and Greece into your home. Does this Spark an idea?
Instructions
Decorate the Walls
1. Add texture to your walls. Use a sponge to add paint in various shades to create texture. Wallpaper borders add interest to your walls. Create a washed effect on your walls to produce various tones and hues that will provide a textured appeal.
2. Paint walls in earthy tones that are vivid. Stick with colors that will stand out. Decorate a white wall with earthy colors if painting is not an option. Yellow, orange, red and cobalt blue are all colors that transform living rooms into the Mediterranean style.
3. Hang photographs and pictures close together. Choose pictures or art that are bold, and group them together on a wall. Create contrast with these photographs to add depth to your walls.
4. Use wall tapestries decorated in ethnic designs and patterns to bring an authentic Mediterranean style into your living room. Hang woven fabric rugs and add animal-patterned fabrics as backdrops.
5. Decorate walls with hand-painted tiles and shelves filled with vases and urns. Hand-painted tiles and terra-cotta tiles will add to the relaxed earthy feeling of this decorative style.
Add Quality Furniture
6. Pick furniture created with wrought iron or pinewood. Choose quality artisanship when selecting furniture pieces. Try to stick with rustic pieces of furniture.
7. Stain old wood furniture to add quality and clarity to the surface. Choose to add accents such as pillows with frill and throw blankets to furniture to save money and time when decorating.
8. Focus on arranging the furniture. Mediterranean style is not only about decorating but also focuses on arrangement. Place furniture close together, and enclose a space to provide a place for family gatherings.
9. Complement furniture with gold, cobalt blue and olive green. Complementary colors will add contrast, which is essential to this theme. Stick with colors that work well together, and assemble a color scheme for your living room. Too many colors will add clutter to the design.
10. Cover furniture in leather and cloth when you do not have wood or metal furniture to accent the living room. Wood and metal furniture adds to the originality of this decor style. Leather and ethnic-print decorated cloth is a part of the style that adds character to the living room.
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