Rawhide Country Lamp Shades Enhance Unique Mountain Interior Design
The unique look of rawhide country lamp shades for home decor has been popular since the end of the great depression when women first began to look at their homes in ways other than utilitarian. Decorating kitchens, living rooms, family rooms and dens soon became the fashionable thing to do.
What is now known as southwest decor and western style, as well as ranch style, evolved naturally as the home decorating styles sprung from essential everyday items. The same happened with country style homes. As the wealthy started to have second homes called country homes, the working class started to use the same concepts in their decorating also.
As primitive style lighting such as oil lamps and lanterns were exchanged for the first rural style lamps, it was rawhide that was chosen as material for making lamp shades. Since then, it has been used in home lighting and for lighting fixtures. If you truly enjoy the handcrafted work and style of times past, the natural looking style of rawhide will definitely be part of what you want to use in your country kitchen and rustic design style. There are also a few other things that will help you create the country look you see in designer homes.
For a country kitchen, consider decorating with wood. Primitive wood with rough edges and uneven surfaces is desirable when using it to create country style. If you have a big kitchen, dark colored woods can be used whereas light tones look better in smaller areas. Rawhide country lamp shades look wonderful when used with wooden accessories and look nice in any area where a floor lamp or southwestern style lamp would be placed. One very nice feature of rawhide shades is that they come in light or dark as well as many colors to fit your particular color scheme.
As you think about adding rawhide country lamp shades in your kitchen, along with other rustic decorating accessories, it may not be imperative to purchase new lamps. Western style lamps are best but it is the leather lampshades that make the difference. You may be able to use lamps you already have by just replacing the shade to give it the same southwestern look and style. Whether you choose to keep the lamps you already have or decide buy new ones, you will be happy at the transformation that occurs in your home.
There is no easier way to incorporate fabulous southwest style in your decorating than by decorating with rustic lamp shades. Add a few country style accessories like Native pottery or tapestries along with the shades, and you will create a unique style that will have people talking about your beautiful decorating style long after they leave.
It is easy to find one of a kind, decorative lamp shades in various colors and sizes in stores that sell southwest and rustic style decorating accessories, or purchase them online. If you would like to enhance western decor in your home and create a true, rustic and western design, do so by simply decorating with rawhide country lamp shades.
About the Author
Craig Chambers is the director of Mission Del Rey and offers free information online about purchasing rawhide country lamp shades for rustic decorating and design. For more information visit http://www.missiondelrey.com
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