By Christine George
Your choice of home furnishings can add spice to your home dcor by offering an oriental or Moorish accent to your interior design. Alternatively, you could select some contemporary pieces, such as wine racks as accent pieces, modern mirrors to add space to smaller rooms or room dividers to cut large rooms down to size.
Let’s first have a look at what is available online to add some oriental or Middle-Eastern spice and promise to otherwise fairly ordinary home dcor. House furnishings such ottomans and poufs can provide a Moorish look to an uninspiring room. A simple item such as a Sari Ottoman in Indian rosewood, with a stunning burgundy, red and gold cushion will catch the eye and impress your visitors.
Scheherazade’s Footstool
Your guests cannot help but comment on how beautiful this looks, and it genuinely seems as if it has flown straight to your home on a magic carpet right out of the 1001 Arabian Nights! This could have been used as Scheherazade’s footstool and you can use it for emergency seating. The same is true of a whole range of such items, such as a Moroccan ottoman, fashioned with upholstery secured by hammered antique brass tacks on wood.
Another is an arabesque Moroccan hassock, covered with hand-stamped Moroccan leather. These are found in genuine Arabian homes and are very comfortable to sit on or just to rest your feet. These home accents will add that Arabian spice to any style of home dcor.
Exotic Room Dividers
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Other types of home furnishings that can be used to spice a room include Eastern room dividers. These screens are available in a Moorish or oriental style, and can be used both as room dividers and to screen off part of a room. You can choose from a large number of possible designs and sizes, although the important factor is that they do what you want them to do: separate your room and also provide you with an exotic decorative element to complement the home dcor you already have.
You could choose a beautifully exotic wooden folding screen room divider that is 80 inches long and 6 feet high. Hand carved from Indian rosewood, this is a beautiful piece of hand-cut latticework and is a fabulous home accent irrespective of the home furnishings already present in your room. Such dividers or partitions are perfect for larger rooms, but can also be used to partition dressing areas in bedrooms.
If you prefer something longer, an alternative design of room divider is a Chinese six-panel screen finished in mahogany and teak colors, and is a total of 8 feet long and six feet high. If you room lacks a focal point, then this astounding item of home dcor can be it.
Scintillating Mirrors
You can use a gorgeous mirror to provide depth to any room in your home, particularly a smaller room such as small dining room or study. You could choose a 28 inch high Tissa mirror, fashioned from wood and white metal, and decorated with camel bone stones. This is a typically Moorish style of mirror, evocative of the Arabian nights, and with a hint of exotic promise!
Alternatively, if your home is decorated in a contemporary style, you could opt for a vibrant wall mirror composed of four sets of 16 rhomboid mirror panels progressively focusing into a central beveled mirror panel. This is a gorgeous mirror that sparkles in any contemporary home dcor.
A similar home accent is a 3.5 ft mirror surrounded by a frame of small mirror squares that sparkles in even the slightest of light sources. Combine both of these decorative elements in the same room and the effect will scintillate even the dullest of senses. You dont get much better than this with modern mirrors for a contemporary or even futuristic home dcor design.
Home Accent Tables
Other ideas for home furnishings include beautiful home accent tables such as a stunning hand carved walnut Damascus table with inlaid wooden mosaics. Made by craftsmen from the Middle East and in solid walnut and mother of pearl, this would look fabulous when displayed in the same room as a gorgeous Moroccan cedar table decorated with camel bone and silver brass. Each of these is as colorful as you would expect any Moorish item of furniture to be.
As a contrast to these home furnishings, you could include a simple Tibetan side table, 22 inches high and hand painted in traditional yellow and grey with a floral motif – this is sure to spice up your home with or without the Moroccan influences. You will find many other Middle Eastern table styles available online to add spiciness to your home dcor.
Unique Wine Racks
Finally, wine racks offer the opportunity for you to introduce some unique home accents to any room, but particularly your dining room or living room. How about a wine rack in the shape of a cello for your musical friends, or a wheel with rope knotted around it to amuse nautical guests. You also have the option of the traditional globe wine rack, where the globe, accurately representing the continents and countries of the world, swivels open to reveal your selection of wines and spirits.
There are many other home furnishings available online in a similar vein, and if none of the home accents suggest above suits you there are plenty more to be found if you know where to look.
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