Decorating your home with a Nautical theme

If you've always wanted to live ocean or sail the seven seas, but find themselves stuck in the land-locked States, you can decorate your home with fabulous sea theme. At sea for you is one way to keep your dreams from childhood into adulthood.

One of the best things about choosing to use nautical decor in your home is that the possibilities are endless. There is a never-ending supply of inspiration, as well as unique pieces, you can use to make your home truly marine however original.

Establishment of the coast D cor

Some people prefer the only hint of the sea, just a couple love to include pieces here and there in their house. You could start by painting a room with sky blue and some white base boards, and then add a couple of photos on the beach. Putting up pictures or photographs is one way for you to bring the topic to a room not tacky. The best thing about using a photo as the decor is that you can easily change them. If you find another picture or painting that you like more easy to remove old and put a new one. Very little work.

To expand its coverage

Even a small change, you can implement adds several nautical themed lamps and fixtures. There are many variants of novelty lamps shaped like a light house for ships, taken from the bulkheads. Add some fantastic works of light to your home, you can instantly brighten your mood and bring you more inspiration for adding more thematic parts. You can even switch ceiling light with a fantastic New light.

Authentic inspiration

Bringing home all you actually found on the beach or on the boat is always a faster way to create a theme in your home. You can put some sea shells or star fish for decorating or buy some candles with them already built in. Throwing up old fisherman net frame on the wall between a pair of prints you can make them instant focal piece.

Something a bit more of what you can do is to use port holes like windows. Rooms like kitchens and bathrooms typically have small Windows and can be the perfect place to use port hole window instead of the traditional ship, or at least a window in the form of a port. When decorating a marine theme possibilities are endless!

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Better Homes and Gardens Decorating

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Interview with Joe Nye

Los Angeles-based designer Joe Nye creates a room inspired by florals from Manuel Canovas's latest collection, and McKinnon and Harris furniture: "Using outdoor pieces inside — in a sunroom or even a living room — is fun and fresh."

Curtain Lining:
"I chose VANESSA'S FOLLY to line the striped curtains. Most people get lazy and just do white lining, but a contrasting color has a more finished, couture effect — like you thought about it."
Chairs:
"BEAUVOIR is the key fabric in the room, the starting-off point. You can pull lots of colors from it. But you have to be careful not to overwhelm the room with it — it's not a timid pattern. I see it on a pair of duVal Club Chairs."
Sofa:
"BRASILIA is a divine color, a wonderful mucky green, and the texture is really cushy. It's comfortable to sit on, even when you're in shorts, so I'd use it in a big way, on a sofa."
Curtains:
"Striped curtains are always a winner, and a turquoise lining would really kick off the bright raspberry. With a bold stripe like ELOI, I wouldn't do much in the way of trim. You want to keep it fresh, not fussy like silk curtains."

Beauvoir in Fuchsia

"These colors are loud and brash — but in a good way!" Nye says. "The pattern is a new take on an old standard, the Jacobean tree of life. It's fun, but it's busy, so it could get dizzying if you used a lot of it. The trick is to use it in a restrained way. On a pair of chairs, it would look special — it would be the focal point of the room."

Cotton Club II in Framboise

"It looks like a coarse sailcloth, but it's so soft you want to put your head on it. I would make two 22-inch-square pillows with tiny French pleats, one for each end of a sofa."

"I'm crazy for animal prints, so chic! They never seem to go out of style. I'd use this for a skirted table. It's a stylish way to add punch to a room

Eloi in Fraise

"Because it's all cotton, Eloi looks informal and canvasy, like a tenting stripe. For curtains in a sunroom, it's exactly the right look

Vanessa's Folly in Turquoise

"I use this all the time to line curtains — it comes in so many colors. I'd do pillows with it, too. Repetition is good — it ties a room together

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Decorating Magazines

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Organic ChristmasTablesettings

Herb Centerpiece

Gather a selection of fresh, seasonal herbs such as rosemary, sage, thyme and bay leaves, and use them to create an alternative table centerpiece.

Fresh Foliage Centerpiece

Pick a selection of whatever fresh foliage and winter flowers you may have growing in your winter garden for this variation on the evergreen centerpiece.

Individual Place Setting: Ivy and Red Berries

Fill an egg cup with sprigs of bright red berries and tuck in a few short lengths of ivy around the edge.

Individual Place Setting: Fresh Flowers

Cut fresh flowers from plants that flourish in a winter garden, such as Christmas rose (Helleborus niger), Lenten rose (Helleborus orientalis), or witch hazel (Hamamellis mollis). Put them in a small foil-lined box or pot and add a little water.

Terracotta Pot Candleholders

Turn three simple terracotta pots into stylish candleholders: line the base of each with recycled aluminum foil, put a beeswax candle in the center, pack sand around each candle and cover the sand with a pretty arrangement of fresh foliage and bright berries.

Decorated Chair Backs

These simple arrangements, made up of a few stems of trailing ivy (Hedera), mistletoe (Viscum album), and holly (Ilex), roughly tied together with natural raffia, and attached to the back of each chair, will lend a lovely rustic detail to your decorated table.

Dried Napkin Decoration

Make a simple napkin decoration by gluing together a dried leaf, a dried orange slice and a cinnamon stick. Rest it lightly on a folded linen napkin, or secure it with a length of natural raffia.

Gather a few short stems of fresh mistletoe and a sprig or two of bright berries, bind them together with some garden twine and rest the small posy on a folded linen napkin.

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