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Southwest Decor - fall in love with southwest decor. Southwest decor encompasses many different styles of decor. Some choose to incorporate mostly Native American decor, some Mexican southwest items, cowboy items, many use petroglyphs and the infamous flute playing kokopelli and some mix them all together. They all make for a very warm and interesting home. The interesting items which can be used are nearly limitless: cradleboards, kokopelli, shaman prints, rugs and sculptures, kiva ladders, mariachi metal singing chickens, Indian and Mexican inspired baskets, Mexican and Indian inspired pottery, stars, horseshoes, arrows and peace pipes. Authentic items are available for a price or decorative replicas of the items can usually be purchased.
Custom Search When I fell in love with southwest interior decorating...We first saw the inside of a home we fell in love with in 2002 while in St. George, Utah. We later took our builder there to show him the home and he said it took his breath away when he walked in. It certainly had ours! We purchased the plans of another house we saw in St. George and decided to build it and decorate it like the take-your-breath-away one. I contacted a woman who worked for the interior design center responsible for the home of my dreams, and offered to fly her to my home town if she would help me. I never heard back from her. I had a brochure for the home and was able to obtain the name of the granite counters and I now owned a video or the interior of the house taken by our builder! I started frantically researching. My wonderful builder subsequently sent us a subscription to Phoenix Home & Garden Magazine and I started saving everything in it that "made my socks roll up and down". In the beginning I cut out my favorite stuff but soon realized these fabulous magazines had so much to offer they should be left intact, so I copied the pages of the things I loved and stored them in a binder. I ended up doing this for almost 5 years before I got to implement any of it. Decorating your home like a professional interior decorator is not as hard as you think. We decided not to build so when I finally bought a house I intended to remodel using some of these things, I thought I should call an interior decorator and met with one a friend recommended. A local decorator who was known for her southwest decor style, I called and made an appointment. We met at her home and I knew right away she could not help me. Her house was pastel yellow, with browns and tans and I wanted red, turquoise, orange, purple and green all in the same room. I had a very southwest red, tan and green fabric sample of a sofa we had ordered from La-Z-Boy and when she saw it she said it would be the focal point of the room. I didn't see it that way - I thought it was muted enough to work with all the other bright stuff I wanted. After our meeting I decided to go it on my own. Only after I was finished did I learn that decorators do what I had done - they find out what style you want, look at hundreds of pictures of a type of home and merge them together. It is not a science - it is an art. Read and Answer Here to see if you think you can do it yourself.
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