Urban Interior Decorating Styles

Everything goes in cycles and this is very true with the living patterns and habits of people in general. For decades and generations people were fleeing the cities to move into the suburbs. Cities were becoming dangerous places and the housing situation in the cities was becoming desperate. In the last few years there has been a revival in the interest in urban living and suddenly people are moving back into the cities again.

But this time it is not into squalid apartment projects or run down houses. These people are moving into a new wave of upscale inner city housing that has taken root in the United States and has started to grow. With a renewed interest in city living there has also grown a series of industries all geared towards urban interior decorating. From new magazines on the newsstands to chic new urban interior decorating consultants that charge unbelievable rates that people looking for status gladly pay, there is a whole new world growing up around urban interior decorating and it is a very expensive world if you want to stay in it.

The idea of urban interior decorating has transformed from the early years of the 1900's. For example, when Italian immigrants started coming to the United States they would live in the apartment buildings in the big cities. Since they could not plant gardens they invented flower boxes that allowed them to have a small garden outside their window. From there other groups caught on to the flower box idea and soon they started popping up in the suburbs as well as the city. Today a flower box seems to be a cardinal sin of urban interior decorating as the idea of what is old is now new certainly does not seem to apply at all to the new rules of urban interior decorating.

Wide Open Spaces

One of the key aspects of urban interior decorating that most decorators seem to go for is creating space in an apartment. The furniture is designed to take up as little space as possible and the wall decorations are also designed to create the illusion of space. It is this desire for more space that seems to consume many urban dwellers and the lengths they will go to create this illusion can be a bit amusing sometimes. Just try and not laugh when you see an entire wall of an apartment lined with mirrors to create the illusion of space. Maybe they should have just bought a house in the suburbs?

Creating your own statement in a rented apartment is the idea behind the new wave of urban interior decorating. But even that can change as now people are buying apartments as opposed to renting them. It makes you wonder when it all stops.

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Western Interior Decorating Trends

Western interior decorating is never out of style, but recently it has enjoyed a strong resurgence in popularity. The western style of interior decorating is no longer confined to log homes and mountain cabins, or properties in the Southwest. Cowboy chic is here to stay, and you can introduce western interior decorating into any room in the house.

Living Room

Resurface living room walls with a rough skim coat tinted with ivory paint to get an authentic adobe look. Rustic, pole pine furniture, faux cowhide rugs, and western blankets are the basics that start the look out. Add accessories like rustic coat and hat racks made of old iron farm equipment or saddles and tack. Today's western interior decorating inventory includes an early mission flavor, with iron scrollwork crosses and Catholic icons. Adobe pots washed in turquoise paint house cacti and other live sculptural materials.

Dining Room

Nothing says ranch style like a big, long rustic wood table. The dining room in a house decorated in the western interior decorating style needs a long, sturdy table that seats plenty of guests. For serving pieces and dinnerware, bypass dainty china for stoneware. A plethora of rustic stoneware can be found with patterns of cowboys, horses, horseshoes, five-point stars, and Indians. You favorite pattern is just a matter of taste. Dining table accessories, like placemats and napkin holders, are cowboy chic tooled leather.

Kid's Room

A young child's bedroom is perhaps the most fun room in the house in which to use a western interior decorating style. A pole pine bed dressed in cowboy print bedding will anchor the room, and coordinating curtains will complete the look. Posters from old western cowboy movies make wonderful framed art in a child's room, and you can go over the top with the kitsch: lamps made from cowboy boots, old horse halters or bolo ties as tie-backs for curtains even a bunk bed can fit a western interior decorating theme, making a bedroom look like a bunkhouse on a ranch.

Outdoors

Carry the western interior decorating theme outdoors with wagon wheels, hitching posts, and split rail fencing. Metal yard ornaments with a rusted patina will match the theme, as will terra cotta pots and pots washed in turquoise hues. Scatter western blankets over log furniture, and don't forget to put a western style fire pit on the patio. Hang a few western lanterns around the area to cast a cozy glow across your western interior decorating showcase.