Eco-Friendly Decorating: Using Nature to Style Your Home

• Every corner of one’s home should be filled with experiences–the good and bad memories they bring up. Nature has to be part of these experiences. It is possible with even the simplest things. But the things are really going to yield bluntly ugly acute corners or empty areas in the home, which is house.Eco-Friendly
• There are natural things and old memories; any place is made especially pretty and home-like, very differently accessorized with these heavenly touches of nature and memories.
• Develop the personal touches in the natural decors with all their nuances: Hard because the defining soul of any space is each of the physical objects placed in it, which very much tells the stories of our lives. Decorating becomes much more special when one finds some things or makes something or ties that to time he attaches some memorable time in their life.
• I always prey on my backyard, parks, or even just at traveling: sometimes I find pine cones, shells, dried flowers. I now have part of my decor from my little walks in nature with the kids, and they remind me of those sweet little times each time I see them.

Special natural decoration is needed for every season.

• The greatest plus point of natural decor is that it changes with seasons. As in summer, a collection of seashells and sand would be perfect; during autumn, there would be gathered acorns and dried leaves; and in winter, some pine cones and sticks. There is something new every season to adorn the home.
• For example, my fireplace has dry moss-covered twigs and pine cones throughout the year. While in summer, seashells and corals are kept in a glass bowl, come winter that same place is filled with acorns and dried foliage.

Memories of the children have turned to ornaments

• Whenever my girls used to return from the park as little kids, they would have their pockets full of acorns, nuts, and leaves-all from different corners of my home now. Beautiful, really alive memories of childhood.
• One time, my mother-in-law picked up a gorgeous, coppery palm leaf, which had fallen after a strong wind, and hung it on the wall above her dining table. It stayed there for a great many years, and everyone who walked past admired it.

Reuse of old objects

• Repurposed an antique glass bottle recovered while digging in my children’s grandparents’ old house. It reads, “Citrate of Magnesia,” and now I have it decked with satin plant vines and some fern leaves.
• This is just part of a long list of many such old items-wine corks, old metal decorative objects, glass bottles-these can even be used as decoration in reuse.

A List of Natural Decorations

You can have nearly all of it free or get fairly easily:

• Sea shells
• Sea glass.
• Driftwood
• Stones, pebbles
• Acorns and seeds
• Pine cones
• Twigs, sticks
• Dried flowers (hydrangea, lavender)
• Fresh or dried fruit (lemon, pomegranate)
• Leaves and moss
• Tree barks dropped from above
• Glass bottle for a vase
• Just place the things on a small table, in a cabinet, or in a pretty vessel to decorate.

Just as simple and creative to put on display.

• Store in a large bowl: collection of shells and stones from vacation along with corals.
• Decorating walls: With hanging a well-placed branch upon the wall, hang some dried flowers.
• Show off that cork: Gobble up wine corks opened on the best of occasions in a beautiful glass jar.
• Marine Collection: An all-time favorite location- in a tray or basket goes the collections made by kids from beachcombing.
• Paper weights on the desk: Smooth rocks, wood, or coral placed as paperweights on the desk.
• Seasonal theme: Setup candles with acorns during autumn, branches of fruit trees in spring- let every season have its style.

The abode of memories advented from Nature.

• Each corner tells a tale. Some can be the reminiscences of my children as they were growing up, some could be from travel, but there might be a few that would just be from nature. Two of them are now in college while one is busy, so things left behind from their young years are for me to enjoy now.
• That’s what makes a natural decor so pretty, it is not only attractive but also brings along each object of which a story, memory, and intimacy are overwhelming. And the best thing is that they are very economical.

Conclusion:

If your purpose is to homely a house, then forget about expensive showpieces or fancy ornaments to make the house cozy; keep things simple, just like nature would have it. Bring into your home those things that remind your children, family, and you, and in so doing, more attractive would be that your home starts to feel more like “home”-closer, relaxing, and something really special.

Next time you walk through the park, along the beach, or through your garden, look around-at what’s within reach, for there just might be beauty ready to become part of your next decoration, be it a lovely branch, shell, or stone.