Fake birds are not just for decorating your yard with.
Decorate with full-size fake birds to showcase your love for the animals, without the upkeep and care real ones would take. Use the critters as inspiration for the rest of your decor and create a jungle habitat for exotic varieties, a lodge feel for water birds or a garden scene for the songbirds that are found right in your own backyard. Use color and whimsy in your interior design scheme to reflect your passion for nature and bring the outdoors in with your other decorative elements and accessories. Does this Spark an idea?
Instructions
Jungle Decor
1. Surround yourself with an exotic jungle scene.
Paint a jungle mural on the walls of the room. Kits are available to create the look you want, use stencils or rent a projector for an easy trace and fill-in design.
2. Set up fake tree limbs in corners for your fake parrots and other exotic birds to sit on. Add other jungle animals such as snakes and monkeys hanging from them as well.
3. Bring in complementary furniture such as hammocks and bamboo couches or chairs. Tan wicker sets work well when decorating in a jungle theme, too. Upholster them in colorful prints that contain images of your full-size fake birds.
4. Hang mosquito netting for window treatments, room dividers and canopies. Hide all your electronics behind closed door entertainment centers when not in use, painted to match the jungle bird theme so that they blend into the background.
Lodge Feel
5. Display your waterfowl decor in a natural looking setting.
Paint your walls in a deep brown. On one of the walls paint a mural of a lake scene, complete with waterbirds in flight.
6. Bring in heavier pieces of wood furniture, in a rustic homemade looking design. Place your life-size fake birds, such as decorative duck decoys, on branches placed on smaller tables in front of the mural.
7. Upholster the furniture in earth tone fabric containing colors found out at a cabin in the woods. Hang window treatments in complementary hues, such as browns, greens and blues.
8. Bring in other rustic decor touches such as handmade antler light fixtures or wood carvings of bears and deer. Displays of taxidermy hunting collections work well when decorating in a lodge bird theme.
Garden Theme
9. Live in the garden of your dreams.
Paint the walls a crisp white and attach lattice board all around the bottom half of the room as wainscoting. Add a garden mural scene to the top half if you want whimsy.
10. Attach fake tree limbs and birdhouses to the mural to display your full-size fake birds in a natural setting. Hang them from hooks in the ceiling if you want them to look as if in they're in flight.
11. Paint roses or ivy climbing up the lattice board for additional splashes of outdoor colors. Plant the real thing in pots in front of the wall to bring living decor in when decorating in a garden bird theme.
12. Bring in outdoor furniture for authenticity such as wicker patio sets or wrought iron bistro sets and garden benches. Attach the full-size birds to the arms and backs of the furniture pieces, as if they are sitting on them.
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