House Decorating Ideas for a Sophisticated Tropical Look

Feb 052011
 

Tropical themes can sometimes be some of the more over-the-top house decorating ideas. This can be quite expensive but it can also end up looking very cheesy as well. You can really combat this just by making everything more sophisticated. It can have an understated elegance to it.

You may just want to skip a lot of the tropical floral prints. Other typical patterns are going to include a lot of cheetah prints. You’re also going to see a lot of jungle animals such as monkeys. You can just skip all of these very typical accessories and instead focus on the overall feeling of the tropics.

There are some free decorating ideas that you can do to really create a light and airy look in your space. One of these is just going to be something very simple but it isn’t exactly fun. You need to really need to wash your windows to let in the maximum amount of light.

You can also just bring in very vibrant colors to balance out drop leaf table or metal wall art. When you look at tropical flowers you see a lot of reds, yellows, and oranges. These can be overwhelming wall colors. Instead you can just go for a bright white wall color. Then you can bring in a few of these accent colors or even several of these. For instance you could just put a lot of orange and yellow throw pillows on the couch. Even if the couch is a basic taupe or tan this adds a very lively feeling to it.

Wicker, like a wicker rocking chair, has become a lot more sophisticated, lately. It’s something that we are seeing a lot of on candle plates and charger plates as well as rocking chairs. Consider using this very traditional tropical material on something other than your furniture. Instead, you can just try to really go for this on your accessories. Buy several of these and make it look great on the wall. In fact you might even be up to pick them up at dollar stores if you’re shopping on a budget.

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I Found This Adorable White Wicker Rocking Chair for Dolls at a Yard Sale Recently

Jul 132010
 

So over the weekend, I was out enjoying the summer weather and doing a little yard-sale shopping. At one stop, I came across this absolutely adorable white wicker rocking chair with a ratty old teddy bear perched on top of it. After wincing at the bear and removing it, I examined the rocking chair and discovered that it was in fantastic condition, just a little bit dusty, with a bit of wear along the headrest that a quick touch up with some white paint could set straight.

While looking it over, I got a nostalgic flash-back to my own childhood. I remember having my own tiny wicker rocking chair as a little girl. I used to keep my favorite dolls crowded on it during ‘tea time’, and I would drag it out of my bedroom in the evenings before bedtime so that I could sit in it while watching TV with mum and dad. Boy, did I love that little white rocking chair!

After ooh-ing and ah-ing over the chair for a few minutes, I checked the tag and saw that the owner actually wanted thirty bucks for it. Thirty! Yikes, this was a yard sale, lady. Things are supposed to go cheap! But I just had to have it, hee hee. I haggled with the woman for a few minutes and chopped her down to twenty bucks, and made her keep the poor tattered teddy bear.

I am pretty sure I got a great deal on the thing because I have seen wicker rocking chairs like this going for as much as sixty dollars in retail stores. Twenty bucks was a great price, and I knew just what I was going to do with this trip down memory lane! My own daughter is just about to turn two. TWO! Can you believe it? And recently she has begun playing with her dollies much more than before. She brushes their hair, feeds them bottles, makes them sit on stools or lie down to take naps. So I took this little treasure home and cleaned it up, repainted the finish, got it tiny rocking chair cushions, and have stored it away for my little girl’s upcoming birthday party. She’s going to be so excited!

And actually, if you couldn’t tell, I am probably more excited about it than she will be, hah! It makes me feel so great to be able to share precious memories of my childhood with my own baby girl. I can’t wait to watch her spending hours playing ‘house’ and ‘dress up’ and ‘tea time’ like I used to do at her age. That child’s chair, that small white wicker rocking chair, is going to get plenty of use, let me tell you! It will be cherished and played with for years and years to come.

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Wicker Rocking Chairs – A Review of 3 Popular Wicker Rocking Chairs

Jul 022010
 
Wicker Rocking Chairs – A Review of 3 Popular Wicker Rocking Chairs

Wicker rocking chairs seem to be finding a resurgence of popularity. It had been a long time since I remember seeing a good old fashion rocker in somebody’s home. But then suddenly, as my generation of women began to start their own families, I began to notice a trend: rockers were appearing everywhere! They started out only in nurseries with [...]

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