African Safari Decor

The continent of unrivalled adventures, picturesque majesty, cultural splendor, and unsurpassed ethnicity, Africa leaves an imprint on your heart like nowhere else. With its rich variety of traditions, customs and culture, it gives an entirely new outlook to life. For anyone who wants a harmonious blend of nature and luxury, African safari decor is the best option. It brings the freedom and beauty of the safari experience into your home. It is a fine combination of natural materials and bold and wild colors that make a statement, which works well for any home. Get surrounded by unique textures, patterns and color, encouraging harmony by giving your interior a rustic theme. The African decor can let you encounter a real life African safari by translating the safari effect into your home. Natural wood, woven baskets, burlap sacks, fabrics such as cotton and jute are included in the safari theme. Learn more on how to give an African safari decor to your home.

 

The mood that is generated is quite fascinating with a blend of nature and luxury to the ultimate. Given here are some points by which you can decorate your home in African safari theme.

 

Go for the earthly color tones like rusts, browns, gold, and oranges, which are the predominant colors in African safari. Even the fabric and furnishings are dark colored that give the decoration a perfect African look. In Africa, plant dyes are used to color the fabric threads; these colors create a great sense of African taste in their ornamentation. You can mirror the scenery of the African region itself like the brown savannas and multi colored animals in the African forest. For that African look, you can furnish your home with antiques from different periods of history, wreathing in traditional color schemes such as periwinkle blues and jade greens inspired by the sea, purples and pinks resonating the breathtaking sunrises and sunsets, showing the grandeur of African land.

 

The real spice of the furnishings comes in the variety that it offers to choose from animal hides to hand printed fabrics to rattan furniture. Animal hides include leather, leopard spots, zebra stripes or tiger skin and fabrics also range from traditional hand-painted ones to woven wools and cotton textiles. African fabric come out in umpteen varieties differing in weaves, colors, textures and designs with effervescent geometrics and bold golden accents. These textiles usually repeat a single symbol that represents continuity and security, along with meaningful proverbs or historical events. Mud cloth is yet another unique African fabric, which is decorated in colorful patterns with the pictures of tribal dancers or the beautiful flora and fauna. It also emphasizes on appliqued clothes and embroidered velvets that can be used to decorate furniture and bedding. Rattan and bamboo chairs with scattered cushions in bright African colors will enhance the African image. Add down-filled quilts and mosquito netting atop a four-poster bed. Use bed linens and cushion covers made of cotton lace, painted fabrics for adorning cushions and upholstery.  

 

African Raffia, palm trees, and of course, bamboo make the best of your choices for the safari theme. Red roses, croton, Nandi flame, Lamu, and other indigenous trees including jacaranda, frangipani, avocado, and banana and grevillea palms will be an added attraction.

 

As the African customs and traditions are deeply rooted and are dating back eons, the ornaments and accessories take you many years throughout the ages. Given here are a collection of accessories that you can choose from: 

A magnificent iron candelabra or a rustic hurricane lamp can accommodate well into the African safari decor theme. This can be fitted either in the dining room or in the living room. Plain or ornate wall sconces can be placed indoors, on verandas or courtyards that offer a soft and inviting glow. Pendant lamps fashioned with Kenya fish traps, caricatured animals, skin-print lampshades, or pineapple–based lamps pave way for that perfect African ambience.