| The many ways you can incorporate | | | | you can use it to create the look of a window or |
| Mediterranean ideas into your decorating. Clay, | | | | to accent entrances, doorways or mirrors. All of |
| terra cotta, wrought iron and other influences that | | | | these will add color and charm. Use the basic paint |
| can help you achieve this in your home. | | | | colors to allow these accent pieces to stand out. |
| How can you bring more color into your home? | | | | Pottery is an easy way to add color to a room |
| There are so many different ways that this is | | | | as well as form and a sense of drama. It can be |
| just a short list of them. | | | | in its natural state of terra cotta or it can be |
| Using mosaic tile, with its bright colors of the terra | | | | glazed in lovely colors, but either way it will add a |
| cotta or brick hues will automatically bring a floor | | | | lot. Try giant pots, elaborate vases in old world |
| and a room to life. Bring the concept even further | | | | shapes and you will create a bright dramatic look |
| into the room by putting these mosaics on the | | | | for your home. Add wrought iron racks and |
| walls as molding, around door frames, and as back | | | | candelabras, wood embellishments, table runners |
| splashes, if you are doing a kitchen or bathroom. | | | | that reflect the colors of the pottery, and you |
| Start small by putting the tiles in small space such | | | | have a lovely romantic setting. Other touches that |
| as an alcove or a foyer, and use a dramatic | | | | will add to this ambiance are urns of burnished |
| sweep of lavender or red caulking that you can | | | | brass, a water fountain made from stone or one |
| easily apply with a trowel. | | | | of the new resins that resemble stone, a relief |
| Furniture is another sure fire way to add drama | | | | over the fireplace and other touches that add to |
| and color to a home. The wood may be simple or | | | | this look. |
| complex designs, but if you keep them low and | | | | The purpose of all of this is to create the look of |
| include different accents made of marble, iron or | | | | a bright Mediterranean idyll, full of sunshine and |
| tile, you will create a bright Mediterranean look. | | | | warmth. Create this by a main theme that |
| This is probably more authentic then the types | | | | creates the interest, and continue it will small |
| you will be ready made in the stores. | | | | touches that you and your guests glimpse at |
| These kinds of materials such as terra cotta, | | | | every turn. |
| glass and iron have been used to decorate homes | | | | To do your planning, perhaps it would help to |
| for ages. These materials have an appeal to | | | | envision yourself with a glass of Chianti at a villa |
| everyone because we all realize that they are | | | | by the Mediterranean. Picture yourself sitting in an |
| time tested decorating ideas that involve care and | | | | garden enclosed by a stucco wall lined with |
| craftsmanship, and are therefore very respected. | | | | sunflowers. The exit is a wooden door with |
| Another idea for color is a tapestry on the wall. If | | | | wrought iron scrolling for hinges and pulls. In the |
| you use wrought iron mountings to hang it, it will | | | | background, you can glimpse the terra cotta tiles |
| look even more authentic. A grill made of wrought | | | | on the roofs of the local homes. Yours will look |
| iron will serve as a simple decoration on a wall, or | | | | like that soon. |