Fresh Ideas for Your Home – Leather

Make a Decorating Statement With Leather Furnishings.

This bold design move shows you have skin in the game.

Consider a touch of leather in your next decorating project. It will be a moo-ving experience that’s sure to enhance your home environment! And most leather design elements are practical too!

Leather adds great texture, softness, and color; however, beware that it can be a heavy look, especially in its most typical design colors – dark brown and black. That’s why it’s best to soften a big leather piece of furniture with other elements such as creamy paint colors, cushy throws and pillows, silky rugs and soft fabric furniture and window fashions.

Another way to lessen the heaviness of leather design elements is to select a lighter color of leather, such as beige, white, gray or sage green. Or you can add a tidbit of brightness with green, red or yellow leather!

Complementary materials and textures can also lighten up a heavy leather look. Think:

• Glass or Lucite tables
• Metal chairs and lamps
• Light filtering, soft-looking window fashions
• Bamboo flooring
• Natural grass wallcoverings

The leather is a versatile choice that adds beauty to most any decorating style from a traditional dining room to a classic living room to an ultra-contemporary great room. Think about leather for these design elements:

• Leather sofas and easy chairs, and even recliners!
• Leather dining chairs
• Leather headboard
• Leather-fronted sideboard in the dining room or dresser in the bedroom
• Leather-covered walls in a powder room or home office

Add leather to your next design project and you’ll be ahead of the herd!