November 10, 2008

Expert Ideas On How To Fashion A Deer Themed Room

For all sportmen out there, there’s a room with deer home decor just waiting to be discovered in their home. Starting out, it might feel overwhelming to put together a complete room around furnishings with a deer motif. But once you start looking and planning, you will find numerous deer home decor items on the market today.

The best place to start is to buy some wallpaper or at the very least, wallpaper border, with a deer focus. You’ll want to hang this on a minimum of one wall in your deer themed room to set the mood for the rest of the decor you’ll be adding. Even if you can’t find deer wall paper, there most certainly is wallpaper with the forest and trees that will grant your room a woodsy feel. Another consideration might be a full sized poster-like mural of deer in the woods, which when filling a whole wall, can make a room look as if like it’s a part of the woods.

Browse the web for deer decor ideas and you’ll come up with end tables and coffee tables featuring deer legs (some real, some faux), glass top tables etched with beautiful deer art, or tables with hand crafted deer accents. Perhaps a chandelier created with deer antlers is your choice. Positively unique, this type of lighting would be memorable at the very least and something not everyone would have. If you have access to the antlers, get enough of them to be able to wire them together in a circle. String some small Christmas-type lights on them and go to your local home improvement store and ask how to wire them directly into the ceiling.

Once you have the larger pieces of deer decor established in your room, you can begin to place some complimentary decorations. Without much trouble, you should be able to discover decorating items to fill those vancant areas on tables and walls. How about an oil paintings of a forest scene featuring deer, a etched mirror coat rack with a forest scene of deer in the tall grass or perhaps a wall clock featuring a deer picture. Drape a deer throw over the back of your couch or love seat for a useful as well as showy addition to the room. And the old standard, there’s always the old standby, of course: a real mounted deer head.

For those shelves and table tops that are pleading to be decorated, why not take a shot at carving a small deer sculpture with a carving knife. If this is beyond your scope of expertise, a drive to your local craft fair should bring you many choices for an artistic carved figure of a deer and all different wildlife. Resin figures are obtainable at most home furnishing stores in various shapes and sizes to fit into most any spot where a decor item is needed. Buy some green plants and give the resin deer a home in the planter. With this, you’ll not only increase the number of deer in your room, but the green plants will add to the natural look as well.
Searching on the Internet and visiting department stores or mail order catalogs should generate a variety of deer decor and deer mirror from which to select.

Once finished, put out your deer welcome mat and let friends know immediately that they’re entering a whole new world where the deer is king.

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