11 Ideas For Your Home To Feel The Nature
Do you think that you are not close enough to nature if you are living in a city? Do you think that you are missing on the beauty of nature and you have to go to the woods, beaches or farms to connect with nature? Well, you are not wrong in thinking like this but you can definitely bring nature to your home!!
You can always bring that peace of mind, that calmness in your home with natural elements in the house. Even in your modern interior design, you just have to think vibrantly and create your rejuvenating space by playing with your furniture, fabric, wall, and ornaments.Gather some valuable ideas to feel the nature at your home:
1) Go Green, Go Re-oxygenation: PLANTS
Ornate Plants or Herb Kitchen Garden
· Re-oxygenate your home with fresh green plants! Bringing nature to home starts with greenery. Whether it’s a small or a big house, plants always bring natural aesthetics to all the places in the house.
· Not only ornate plants but other useful herbs can also add to the beauty and make you a proud owner of your own kitchen garden!
2) Treat of Natural Fragrances at your Home …”Khushboo”: NATURAL FRAGRANCE
Natural Essence with Natural Fragrance
· Your home not only blooms with the fragrance of beautiful flowers, when teak is added, it blossoms the room with the fragrance of nature from all corners.This soothes and calms the environment.
· Bring magical presence of sandal wood, lavender, etc. with diff users, candles or incense sticks.
3) Wood is the new Colour: WOOD AS BASE FURNITURE
Changing the Colour Palette
· Want to bring nature home? Bring raw wood furniture. Teak wood furniture with hand crafted custom made furniture not only gives the perfect functionality but also the exquisite look of luxurious style.
· New colours on the wall complement the nature along with the decals to accentuate the natural beauty.
· Make branches, your root to beautiful hangings with photo frames of natural barks or hanging wooden ladder wall piece.
4) All things bright and beautiful (Vertical Garden): INNOVATIVE PLANTS, MARBLE & WOOD USE
Have hanging pots of plant creating a vertical garden and bringing nature close. Mother earth provides the raw material to gel with the ambience of the city culture.
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· Another way to bring nature to your home is by using raw wood to perfection in the modern interior design. From coarse marble and wood grains to tapestry and soft bright sunlight with colours of soft curtains and wall pieces; the whole ambience enlightens the ‘karma’ feeling of soothing atmosphere.
5) Beautiful things come in All Forms — Eternity in your home: SMALL & BIG SHAPES
Good things come in all shapes and sizes!
· Have you seen jar of stones, beautifully arranged in a tray or on a furniture piece? If not, then try! They add galore to the presence of nature in all forms.
· The same goes with plant terrariums where ensemble of small bonsai plants provides a natural habitat for plants in your home.
· Display big natural scenic portraits to have a feeling of unity with nature in your own city space.
· You love your collection of shells and stones from the beach and you want to keep the memory alive forever with you! What’s wrong with that? Just have a tower or any shape of the rack and live with your memories forever.
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· Whether it’s a small object or a big wooden centre piece, the shapes set the profile of the room. For bedrooms, a definite pattern of wood or precisely teak wood chests and chairs along with the side tables forms a hierarchy where the sizes and the ratio of the wooden pieces matter a lot. Similarly, open kitchens with islands or bar stools brings a spectacular and unique look.
6) Imperfections for the perfect décor: FABRIC, METALLIC& NATURAL ELEMENTS
When they say that opposites attract, they are not wrong!
· Some like shades of same colour and similar designs replicated in different sizes; but some like opposites to enhance the beauty of their rooms. Whether its metallic furniture, wooden furniture or both combined together or black and white décor, the opposites attract and make your identity reflect your freshness in design.
· Natural wooden lamps give the feeling of wooden planks straight from the woods enlightening your home!
· Natural wood contrasts with the colours of the fabric of your choice and highlights the beauty. The versatile solid teak wood also allows you to change the look of the room from modern to classic providing a new style.
7) Matching cushions, curtains; shapes: ORNAMENTS, FABRIC, CURTAINS & FURNITURE
No Match fixing, Only Matching
· Fabric can be a game changer! Natural prints of cushion, duvet, throw pillows, etc. can provide a landscape of your choice.
· Flow in room’s character can also be attained with a flow in shapes, cushions, curtains, etc. Sofa sets with matching cushions definitely go with this principle.
· We see that every petal, every leaf, every branch looks like colourful green wooden natural spring but with closer look, we can see nature’s beauty in shades of its own.You can incorporate these tips to bring nature to your home with similar high-quality furniture to match your walls and curtains along with other ornaments.
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8) Beauty in Creation: INTERIOR DESIGNERS & CRAFTSMEN
Salute the Designers and the Craftsmen
· Designers and craftsmen work together to fulfil our requirements and to provide customised modern interiors that welcome beautiful nature in our homes.
· Wood is one of the basic elements of nature that can help us to attain freshness and natural look. This not only allows us to play with our functionality requirement but also provide antique and country finish. We should not forget our mighty craftsmen who help us to achieve the perfect look that we want for our rooms.
9) Mood Changers: SEASONS AND LANDSCAPE
We feel what we SEE!
· Synchronise your requirements with the type of nature you admire. The flavours of different seasons and landscape can be added in different rooms either with stones for beach canvas; sand jars and cushion covers of desert landscape or spring flavours with artificial colourful petals and flowers.
10) Nature on the Move:CHIMES, BIRD HOUSES
Moving & Static, All in your home
· Bring the chirping birds and their echoes to your home with bird houses on your window.
·Chimes unwind a relaxing and soothing sound to the ears with the natural blowing breeze.
11) Natural Sunlight as a part of Décor: SUNLIGHT & WINDOWS PART OF DÉCOR
Brighten up! With “Sooraj ki Kirney”:
· Believe it or not! Fabric changes the look. A mere addition of sheer curtains brings a royal look; it also brings natural sunlight in all corners of the house.
· Even huge windows with direct sunlight along with light coloured furniture bring unity in tones of the room. Whether it’s a bedroom, dining room, drawing room or lobby, these tones provide freshness. The bright sun rays also highlight a beautiful piece of furniture or ornaments which brings freshness from outside to inside.
· Bay windows not only provide Gothic look but these also provide a wider look and allows more sunshine to penetrate into your home.
With these small changes and understanding of the natural beauty, we can provide joyous flavours of the nature with similar or contrast wooden surfaces carved according to our requirements. The different layers of nature resonance touch our emotions and bring calmness.
