Nautical Theme In Home Decoration
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Written by Home Decorating
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Wednesday, 20 February 2008 |
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If you have a natural fondness for the sea, using nautical as your theme for home decoration is a great way of showing your love of the deep blue. There are many homes using the nautical theme for their interior décor. Nautical is considered as one of the more exciting theme for home decoration because of the inherent natural beauty of underwater scenes and the accompanying mystery and romantic appeal that it exudes.
Many houses that has nautical theme for their interior decoration would usually have this wooden ship’s steering wheel as a central focus of attention in their receiving room. If you are interested to have this as one of your design, you can create your own if you have knowledge in wood working and you have the needed tools. Otherwise, you can have this created for you by a professional carpenter. It will even be nicer if you can take hold of an original wooded boat steering wheel in original form, have it cleaned and varnished and then display it as it is.
Marine shade of blue is the best kind of color to reflect the nautical theme. You can use this color as color theme of the interior of your home. You can likewise use this color in your curtain and drapes. Using a combination of marine shade of blue and white is also a good way of depicting marine life while white is the usual color of uniforms for men of the seas. White color would depict the navy in general.
Another good symbol of life at sea is the rope. You can buy several meters of these big nylon and have it designed along the sides of your wall painted either in white or blue. If you have a bar, this rope can be used as an added design on the side of the bar counter. You can also create a rubber boat side protector, painted with the name of a vessel like U.S.S. Thunder or any name you fancy about. You can place this along the sides of your bar, to compliment your rope design. This will give your bar a ship side concept to naturally compliment the other parts of your nautical design of your receiving room.
Your nautical concept can further be complimented by hanging in your receiving room a large sea inspired painting. A large galleon ship will be alright. And you can also add an oil painting of a lighthouse done by Thomas Kincaid, one of The foremost painter when it comes to lighthouses. If you want a more authentic and graphical presentation, you can add further blown up pictures of under sea creatures and sceneries. You can browse the internet for sites that sells digital pictures of colorful and exotic deep sea marine life. And to further
Enliven your nautical décor, you can also display on your corner shelf giant decorative shells that you can find in gift stores.
With these helpful ideas, I am sure you can affect the right nautical atmosphere right inside the comforts of your own home.
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