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A Low Cost Way To Give Any Room African Style 08/23/2007 - By Casonia Smith-King
Photo courtesy of Danielle Montgomery
Have you ever thought about incorporating African style in your home or office, but didn't quite know where to start. It's actually easier than you think. Learn how you can incorporate African inspired style into your home or office simply by
Have you ever thought about incorporating African style in your home or office, but didn't quite know where to start. It's actually easier than you think. Learn how you can incorporate African inspired style into your home or office by simply transforming the walls of a room.
Using paint and an African inspired wallpaper border, you can transform your room and give it elegant African style. If your room is already painted to coordinate with the wallpaper border you only have to add the border. However, if your walls require painting to incorporate the wallpaper border, you will want to paint the walls using a color that is already used in your room and then add an African inspired wallpaper border to complete the transformation.
Choose an African Inspired Wallpaper Border for Your Walls
Choose an African inspired wallpaper border that picks up a color in your room or has a color scheme that will complement the color scheme in your room. If your room has furniture that has a dominating print, you will likely want to choose the background color in that print for your walls and match the wallpaper to that color.
African-Images.Com carries a nice selection of Multi-cultural wallpaper border designs. The most popular African inspired design is Abstract Masks, a modern expression of African tribal masks, but the traditional patterned designs of the Bushango line will also give your room a genuine feeling of African style. These wallpaper borders can be scrubbed. They are pre-pasted and remove easily.
Order samples of the wallpaper borders you like if you are uncertain about color matching. When you receive your samples, place each sample near large objects in your room to determine if their color matches or coordinates with any color in the wallpaper border. If it does, this border is a good choice to add ethnic style to the walls of your room. Use the color found in the room object you matched your wallpaper border to as your wall color.
Shopping for Your Paint Color
If you need to paint your walls before adding your selected wallpaper border, take along a sample that contains the color you will paint your walls. If the color is not available pre-mixed, you can have the color mixed for you using your sample item.
Changing Your Room
You can place your wallpaper border at the top of your wall, at the bottom of your wall near the base boards or at chair railing height for the most impact. It's your choice. Decide where you will apply your wallpaper border. If your project requires painting, prepare your walls if necessary and paint them. When your walls are completely dry, add your selected wallpaper border.
Your Redesigned African Style Room is Complete
This low cost idea is a great way to incorporate a sense of African style in your home or office without breaking the bank. The multi-cultural wall paper borders offered at African-Images.Com will allow you to create an affordable cultural haven in your home.
Complete your look by bringing in African fabrics, Mudcloth pillows, Safari inspired candles, travel trunks, carved art such as masks or other African home accessories.
Beware; you may not want to leave your new African-inspired room.
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