Adobe home interiors may need warm lighting to counteract a cool feeling.
Adobe homes have built-in decorative features. Textured walls, bowing hearths, rounded alcoves, exposed ceiling beams and door frames help define an Adobe's interior shape. Enrich your home's contemporary organic forms with Southwestern landscape colors and warm lighting. Incorporate informal artwork and home accessories into your decorating scheme. Does this Spark an idea?
Instructions
1. Install lighting fixtures that warm the look of an Adobe home's natural flooring material. Adobe homes usually feature flooring materials such as Saltillo tile, brick, sandstone or hardwood. Strive to create a glowing feel within each of your rooms to counterbalance its inherent feeling of coolness the home's flooring may create. Use track and pendant lighting in spacious rooms that may need more light than the home's smaller rooms.
2. Paint walls with stark white, ivory and Southwestern inspired hues. Create a handsome backdrop for your artwork and furnishings by painting all of your walls with bright or warm-toned white paint. Add a paint color such as vibrant sky blue, earthy orange or clay-red to at least one wall of your Adobe style home. Give your rooms a finished look by painting with a color within one of the larger works of art that you'll be hanging.
3. Feature fine Toas School artwork in your Adobe home. Showcase large and small paintings or watercolors. Images depicting informal scenes are an Adobe home essential. Display charming Southwest inspired moments. Dramatic landscapes add personality to any room. Use the artwork's tones, tints and shades as a guide to define where decorative home accessories will look best.
4. Decorate with home accessories that have strong cultural flair. Suitable accessories include Southwestern sculptures, rugs and blankets. Lay a color-rich Navajo rug in front of the fireplace. Drape a blanket with strong geometric patterns on an over sized leather couch's arm, for example. Distribute Apache basketwork throughout your Adobe style home. Use assorted Hopi pottery to accentuate alcoves.
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