Mexican Interior Design

Mexican furniture is greatly influenced by the Spanish, Chinese and Mayan culture and designs. The furniture is usually straight lined, with lots of ornamentation on it. Furniture made from pine wood should ideally be used in Mexican interior designs. Otherwise, walnut and cherry furniture look equally good. The furniture items, whether sofas or beds, should be very large and broad, almost similar to country style furniture. Since a Mexican look will be incomplete without a riot of colors, you can paint the edges of the various furniture items with typical Mexican colors such as red, orange and blue. Central tables or side tables, which have ceramic tile inlays on the top, can be teemed with this furniture to give a bright look to the room. When choosing the flooring of the house, ceramic tiles or clay tiles gel really well with Mexican interiors. If you want a wooden flooring, you can go in for hardwood flooring, which looks equally good in a Mexican house. Read more on Mexican style furniture.


Accessories

Mexican homes are full of accessories. So place lots of candles, picture frames as well as mirrors in your home. Accessories made from metal as well as wrought iron should be used. Mexican style hand woven wall hangings should be used to adorn the walls. You can place lots of Mexican cultural items such as wall hangings or paintings with Mexican folk art, Mexican pottery with geometric patterns on it, as well as the colored woven Mexican baskets, at various places in the house. Traditional Mexican masks can be put on the walls to complete the Mexican look. Reade more on wall decorations.

Color Patterns

While choosing Mexican interior design colors, go in for very bright colors. Blues, maroon, deep red, greens, yellows, terracotta and pinks, are the ideal choices. Painting the walls of the room in two bright colors, one for the bottom half and the other for the upper half, gives the Mexican house a very unique look. Read more on interior painting.

Fabrics and Upholstery

Wall to wall carpeting should be avoided in Mexican interior design homes. But you can use lots of small rugs, especially the hand woven ones, of bright colors, in all the rooms of the house. Throwing a number of multi-colored cushions on the sofas and beds is another way to get the perfect Mexican interior design look. While choosing fabrics for the curtains, go in for natural materials such as cotton. The curtains in a Mexican house should be layered and fancy, with lots of geometric or Mexican folk art designs on them.

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