Safari Ideas For Any Room

Safari themes are popular in any room today. A child's room can be filled with color and accessories and create an atmosphere of a jungle or a mass of stuffed animals. I will be doing a page on different jungle animals and how to decorate your child's room in the near future. Living rooms, kitchens, dining rooms, family rooms, and an entire living area can be turned into an African delight. When planning any type of theme based room there are a few things you should think about.

You don't have to spend a lot of money in creating your own decorating theme. Use your imagination and different materials you already have around your home or apartment. I will give you ideas of some colors and possible accessories to create this particular theme.

Green Tones

These three colors are popular in the safari theme. Different shades of green and gold could be used on the walls as your foundation color. An idea is to take a sage green tone like the one above and paint your walls either in the lighter tone or the darker tone. Your woodwork or trim could be done in the opposite of what the walls are. Lets say you paint the room in the lighter shade of sage green, do the trim in the darker shade. The same thing can be done with gold, brown, and tan family. The fun part once you have decided on your foundation paint for your walls, is deciding how to coordinate your safari accents and accessories. When I think of Safari base themes, jungle animals come to mind.

When planning your African theme, think not only about the walls and trim color. Your furniture and other accents will help create the look you are trying to achieve. You can still have this particular theme even if your furniture doesn't quite match the room color. An option for you is to purchase different solid or print fabric covers for your chairs, couch or sofa. This is a cheaper alternate than buying new furniture.

A few pillows with jungle animals and animal print fabric creates the mood of the room. I like the idea of taking a tan, gold, or green tone walls with this theme and creating the jungle feel with pillows, throw rugs, blankets, and different figurines or baskets. Depending on what room you are decorating will determine what accent and accessories to use. Accent lights are a great way to incorporate a safari setting. Remember, whatever room you are designing always keep in mind odd numbers.

Curtains, blinds, or other window treatment play a big role in the overall feel of a room. Maybe you have decided on a golden tone or a sage tone. Take a look at this curtain and see how the colors of the curtain will blend in with the color of the gold or sage shades.

The bamboo style curtain rod adds onto the feel of an African theme. Be creative with any theme you do, but don't go overboard on too many colors or accessories. Remember, today anything goes in decorating, but the room has to balance out with not only color, but also accents and accessories. Allow yourself some flexibility when doing a theme base room. You don't have to have the room completely decorated after you paint. Look around for the the different items that will bring out your love of that theme. Another idea when doing a safari them is to in create a little area in your room and add a little class to the room.

Notice around each of the classes. There are jungle animals to help the mood of the theme. Another idea is to take a mirror and put different items on the mirror. A candle will reflect great in the evening, along with some other African trinkets.

Lets start go over the basic ideas for doing a safari theme.

The first step is to plan the overall theme for the room or rooms.

Find your base or foundation color for you walls, trim and possible ceiling.

Think about the color of your furniture and floors - fabric covering is an option.

Don't get carried away with too many different colors.

Be creative with the accessories and always decorate end tables, shelves and other accents with odd numbers.

The Safari theme has many possibilities for any room. Keep it simple and don't try and over decorate. Start with the base color and think about the overall look you are going to have. You can do this or any other theme base room and stay within your budget. Research what your cost will be for the entire project and with a little creativity with existing items in your home, you can create a wonderful living area for you and your family. If you are interested in learning more about this particular theme, feel free to contact me here at interior-decorating ideas-for you.

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