Show your family that spice isn’t just for cooking by decorating your kitchen with Mexican home decor!

Even if you’ve never decorated before you can get a great Mexican look in your kitchen by changing minor accessories such as tablecloths and dishware and adding some colorful paint to the walls. A good remodel can include alterations to flooring, lighting fixtures, decorative items and wall color as well as your kitchen table and chairs.

It’s not critical to have a matching table and chair set but the kitchen should have a variety of bright colored or rustic furniture. To really showcase the Mexican design style, try using items with a painted distressed finish.

Your window treatments are important to your Mexican home d?cor design. To get a great design in your kitchen go with using a simple valance or shutters or a wooden valance painted with distressed paint. There are numerous treatments that you can match up to this decorating style especially if you match fabrics to your window treatments, but you should take care to avoid heavy drapes or modernistic looking treatments.

Decorative accessories are a must to pulling your Mexican home d?cor look together. Even if you can’t do anything else – you can get a new look by adding different decorative items! Concentrate on buying tablecloths, dishware and canisters, in colors and patterns that match your Mexican design style. You won’t believe the impact a few simple changes can make! You should to include lots of old rustic pieces in addition to wrought iron pieces and you can even try some colorful hand painted wooden pieces to get a unique look for your kitchen. Incorporating additional touches like vintage hand painted Mexican pottery can make your room appear like it was done by a professional.

What’s on your floor can add to the decorating scheme, but if you can not buy new flooring in your kitchen then work with your floors by covering them with area rugs that have a Mexican look. If you do want to go with new floors, try rustic hard wood or tile floors.

Lighting is necessary in your home and the kitchen is no exception. To compliment your Mexican home d?cor design, you should consider light fixtures in terms of type as well as style. When you are incorporating a Mexican look, try a tin chandelier with scrolly metal wall sconces or anything wrought iron or rustic looking.

A vital ingredient when decorating your kitchen with a Mexican inspired style is your wall coverings. For this decorating style the room colors make a big difference – consider adding reds and bright blues either in your wall color or your accessories. Try using a stucco on the walls, or maybe go with faux paint that resembles plaster. You don’t have to get too fancy or spend a lot of money and if you are afraid of too much color, simply paint the walls a neutral shade and put the color into your flooring and accents.

The most important and most fun part is adding art and decorations to your walls. Try adding a hand painted mural or hang some vintage Mexico travel prints to your kitchen walls to really bring out the spice of your Mexican design style. You can also fill the wall with mexican pottery plates and platters hung in wrought iron plate holders or hang shelves and fill them with colorful and interesting Mexican clay jugs.

Getting a great Mexican look in your kitchen doesn’t have to take a lot of money or time. Smart shopping for accessories and making a few simple changes can add a little zing to your room in no time!

By: Lee Dobbins

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Lee Dobbins writes for a-kitchen-decorating-idea.com where you can get more great kitchen decorating ideas.

Blue is one of the most popular favorite colors in the world. However, it often translates as masculine or like a baby boy’s nursery when used in home decor. Blue can appeal to both genders and you can even use it in a kitchen. Blue color schemes for a living room or any other space in the house can have mass appeal and you can even make the color look sophisticated.

Since blue is such a soothing color some may only use it in relaxing places like a bedroom or master bathroom. Blue can also be vibrant enough for an office of kitchen if you make it bold. Turquoise paint can really make a statement in the room; just make sure that it doesn’t become overwhelming. Paint the ceiling and any shutters in the space a bright white. Give it that Caribbean feel with rich dark wood furniture and floors. Then you just have to add an island touch with oversized faux palm trees and wicker furniture. For a brighter color you’ll need to use a lot of neutrals and bring in as much lighting as possible for balance.

When going with a deep color like teal walls or using navy paint you’ll need to consider balance. You’ll also need to prime properly before hand and plan on using several coats of paint to get a rich finish. Almost everything else in the room should be a neutral color so that the walls are the focal point without being overwhelming. This includes the window treatments, floors and furniture. Then you can bring in a few blue accent pieces like a throw pillow or some glass vases.

A slate living room can have a modern effect but you don’t want it to become dated too quickly. You may only replace your furniture once a decade so consider more neutral fabric choices like white, black or brown. Then you can paint the walls blue to pull out colors from the fireplace stone. You can also break up your living room set if you are short on space and substitute with a daring slate blue armchair that you can inexpensively replace later on.

Blue bedroom furniture is an unusual way to bring new life to old pieces. This look can be sophisticated or country. Paint a dresser with a distressed slate blue finish. The tone should have a lot of gray in it so the paint isn’t too bright. This is also a way to bring color into an apartment if you can’t paint the walls. Then you can just sand down the finish so it looks like an antique and change out more contemporary knobs for vintage glass pieces.

Blue color schemes can create a soothing or daring space in your home depending on how you want to feel in your space. You can use blue in traditional, contemporary or modern design. You might want to stick with blue on things like walls and wood furniture pieces because it’s easy to change out. The next people that own your home may be disappointed with blue bathroom tile. That doesn’t mean that you can’t bring in blue in a very livable way that you can easily change out when you want to move onto something else.

By: Sara Gilmore

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