Home Decorating - Decorating With Seafaring Sense

If you like the feeling of fresh wind and sea spray in your face as you go sailing on the

seas, you'll probably like the idea of decorating your home with a nautical motif as well.

The sea can range from being placid and mysterious to wild and unbridled. You can bring

the same kind of charm into your home just by putting an aquatic theme into the way you

decorate the interiors of your house.

Creativity is very often sufficient to put the right nautical touches into your interior

decorations. For example, adding wainscoting with a dark stain pattern paired with a

white or light-colored chair rail along the same length of wall can have the impressive

effect of the interior of a ship or a yacht. Having such features installed in your home will

be expensive, true, but one need not go to such lengths to achieve a similar effect. It's

also possible for you to do the installation of the necessary features yourself with the

right hardware and a little elbow grease.

You could also introduce some very nautical colors and textures into your home. A great

and easy way to do this is to get window shades and curtains of the same fabric from

which boat sails are made. This material, usually a variety of cotton or hemp, is good and

heavy, perfect for curtains or drapes. Painting your sailcloth curtains and drapes a

nautical or a navy blue will help them block out light as well as magnify the seafaring

theme in your home. You could also use the same colors for your walls and then install

blinds made of wood or cream-colored curtains for contrast. Remember that the way your

house's openings - windows, doors and all similar features - can make for some very

authentic nautical highlights. Try installing a porthole or two to add to the nautical flair.

Using rope or twine as an accent can help establish and strengthen the nautical theme of

your decorations because of its strong associations with the seafaring lifestyle. Do a little

bit of arts and crafts to make personalized candle holders, baskets, picture frames and all

manner of trinkets, all from rope and twine. Make a hammock or embellish some

furniture with twine to liven up dull, empty corners.

Don't forget to add implements and little trinkets that are very often associated with the

sea. Such bric-a-brac includes barometers, sextants, compasses and sailor's telescopes.

Shells, sand dollars, boat models in little bottles and old-style maps of the seas are also

staples in any nautical-themed space. Photographs and artworks would assist in

establishing the connection between your decorating motif and the example Mother

Nature provided. You may want to get yourself photographs or paintings of lighthouses

in action, as lighthouses are a major component in the whole seafaring theme.

Aside from livening up your home and making the interiors visually appealing, it's also

not very difficult to pull together a nautical look for your interior decorations. Many of

the items which you can use to decorate aren't expensive, and you can use your creativity

to make some pieces that are all your own.

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