Zebra Print Decor Options
Posted in Interior Design and Decorating on July 15th, 2010 by Jim – Comments OffZebra print is cool. There is just nothing like it to perk up a room and add a dash of contemporary style and primitive zing. Designers world wide, seek the perfect black and white zebra print when they want to add a splash of understated vigor to their client’s home. There is room for a fabulous zebra print within nearly any decorating budget.
Solid colors in a room ache for a zebra print to make them interesting. Throw down a lime green scarf with a couple of pink pillows on top of it to really make your modern “retro” vibrate. If the zebra print you have found turns out to be too bold, then it can be toned down with layers of neutrals, like a tan afghan coverlet and navy pillows to bring the room back to a comfortable reality.
Who can resist a zebra print rug? This is no ordinary rug. It is not the floral rug that grandma would choose. You won’t be tiptoeing through an English garden, you’ll be trekking through a nomadic safari grassland of decorating. Be brave and keep your visual perspective by going for the exotic that you love.
The true rug devotee will own numerous chic zebra rugs to accentuate different areas and continue this decorative grassland theme through the whole house. One will have very wide short strips in a vibrant black and white, reminiscent of a chevron, but another will have narrow stripes with a slightly muted tonal quality. It does not matter, the more variation, the more interesting the motif.
Since these are faux prints and not animal pelts your home will remain animal friendly. You will only be borrowing their fantastic color and pattern as a way to pay homage to these natural wonders of creation. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery and even the kids will want small playful zebra print rugs to spice up their rooms. A few small zebra print rugs might be attached to the wall with hook and loop tape to create an overlapping backdrop of fantastic and fascinating pattern, almost like a gigantic abstract puzzle.
Remember when choosing these fabulous zebra print pieces for your home that “less is more,” especially when it comes to a pattern as bold as this one is. Do not overpower the entire house by making everything from the bathroom scales to the bedding zebra print. Choose one major piece per room and if it can handle one more in a distant area of the same large room, then fine, but if you go overboard it will no longer be stylish, it will be quite garish, and no one wants that.
Go ahead and indulge in elegance with a wonderful zebra print couch, but don’t put a zebra print rug in front of it, and zebra print pillows on it, and zebra print curtains behind it. You will have transformed your utterly unique and fabulous couch into an unremarkable and indistinguishable bit of clutter. That wonderful couch might fit in the living room, or your daughter’s bedroom, but only if the zebra print is kept to an absolute minimum — in which case, you will be the envy of the neighborhood.