Traditional Home Decor That Spells Ethnicity

Decor

oi-Priya

By Priya Devi

Tuesday, April 24, 2012, 14:23

An ethnic home justifies your aesthetic sense. Your home can have traditional home decor, suiting modern lifestyle for a comfortable dwelling as well as to stay up in trend, for ethnicity lives on.

A number of traditional home decor ideas can be drawn from the culture that is so rich. You can also be a traditional amalgam of home interiors across the globe.

Here are few traditional home decor tips that can give an ethnic style and colouring to your home.

Wooden, iron, cane furniture etc make up for traditional furniture. Simple rustic furniture, poses an elegant look, though it does not feature intricate carving.

Cots

Iron cots with floral designs, can add a traditional touch to your bed room. Otherwise, a blend of wood and iron cots, with iron for the decoration can be opted, which simply spells elegance.

Almirahs

Traditional Almirahs and heavy wooden chests or drawers can add grandeur to your living room. They need not be intricately carved. Plain wood with iron handles for drawers simply make their presence bold.

Almirahs with glass fitted into a wooden frame for the door, can display your crockery with ethnic style. It adds an aesthetic charm to your dinning area. It can also be fitted into your living room to display small collectables.

Needless to say that Almirahs can also act as cupboards.

Jhoolas or Swings

Swings formed an important home interior piece of an Indian home, an authentic traditional home decor symbol. They are usually heavy with winding creepers and leaves get expressed in wood elegantly. If you are on look out for a simple style, huge wooden board, with iron chains, can add to your ethnic style of a living room, or a private gathering area.

Ethnic Sofas

Traditional upholstered sofas with rich floral prints in bold colours in silk or velvet, gives a more richer look. Pastel shades also in traditional prints carries ethnicity of the Mughal style.

Lengthy wooden sofas with a wooden rest and a cushioned back rest, in your foyer, introduces your guest to an elegant home with ethnic style.

Divans and Baithaks

Divans extend a traditional appeal to your living room or your private gathering area. They infiltrated into India from Turkey. Make it appealing with block printed, floral, batik, mirror work spreads and bright or pastel mirror worked cushions.

Traditional Pillars

Pillars form an integral part of an Indian home and architecture. Pillars lined in the front-yard of the house, on a lengthy elevated stretch on either sides, at the entrance of the house, brings about a traditional appeal at the first glance.

Pillars of old homes are sold in traditional furniture shops. The base of the pillars with a round bottom or the crown of a pillar, can serve as centre piece or a side piece with a glass top. These are ideal for your living room.

Antique Doors

Antique doors are ideal for the main door at the entrance or for the Puja room.

Antique doors go well with wooden fixtures that run horizontally above the door, usually carrying carved images of deities as a symbol of auspiciousness.

Antique Mirrors

Mirrors form one of the most significant traditional home decor aspect. A simple big mirror with big, bold frame can work ethnic wonders to your home interior. For a more richer look, carved mirror, suit the purpose.

Antique Collectables

Antique brass collectables, usually of deities, in a befits the home interior intended to be traditional.

A variety of brass objects owing to Indian lifestyle like small bowls, the heavy anklets worn by traditional Bhartnatyam dancers etc serve as traditional show pieces. Traditional collectables in Porcelain and glass also subtly, yet profoundly spell elegance. Terracotta art also fits into an ethnic home.

Traditional lamp shades

Traditional dome shaped chandeliers, in transparent coloured glass, in a row, show forth the flame of the candle aesthetically and is an elegant decor tip for your corridor.

Colourful stained glass lamp shades, adds more beauty, while lampshades in plain glass, with brass holders, emit pure light.

Traditional Carpets

Kashmiri carpets, Persian carpets, Turkish carpets, Berber carpets, simply helps your home flaunt a rich traditional appearance.

So bring ethnicity into your home.