Bamboo Chic - For Green And Stylish Home Decorations
Bamboo chic is a decorating style that uses natural substances like bamboo and slate to achieve a modern look with an Asian touch. Bamboo is so chic these days because it is "green" – environmentally sustainable and earth friendly. This look is typified by sophisticated styling and natural elements.
Bamboo Lamps
Bamboo lamps add a subtle touch as an accent to any room. Most bamboo lamps hare a base made of a bundle of bamboo stalks that have been lashed together to form a cylinder. An electrician runs an electric wire through the center of the cylinder and attaches lamp parts and a shade on the top of the bamboo cylinder.
If you use bamboo lamps, top them with stunning natural lamp shades to complete the bamboo chic look.
Bamboo Picture and Mirror Frames
Whether you use real or simulated bamboo to frame your pictures and mirrors, you can achieve that popular bamboo chic look. Bamboo is simulated by adding crosswise "joints" around the exterior of an otherwise smooth tube. This simulated bamboo needs to be painted, and it looks great painted black, silver, or gold.
Bamboo Flooring
Bamboo has overtaken hardwood and stone as the flooring of choice for the new millennium. Bamboo floors are inexpensive, easy to install, and easy to maintain. Improvements in innovation make it possible for you to choose bamboo flooring in a wide array of natural looking colors that let the grain of the bamboo show through.
Bamboo Jewelry And Accessories
Bamboo chic is not just about home interiors; bamboo chic extends into the jewelry box as more and more women enjoy wearing natural looking accessories like bamboo bangle bracelets, bamboo earrings, and bamboo necklaces.
Bamboo handbags are also very popular. Brightly printed cloth bags look fabulous with big, bold bamboo handles.
Bamboo Chic Artwork
This isn’t necessarily artwork made of bamboo, or depicting bamboo. Any beautiful item made of natural substances, streamlined and modern, can be characterized as bamboo chic. Any artwork that has a bold, sophisticated look can fall into the bamboo chic style.
Bamboo Table Décor
Bamboo placemats are a natural way to incorporate bamboo chic into your table decorations. Natural bamboo stalks, cut to placemat height and lashed together in a row, form a placemat that adds drama and texture to a setting. Top these placemats with smooth dark stoneware, evocative of slate, and light a scented candle.
Even porcelain china can be made to fit the bamboo chic decorating theme. Some dishes are made with simulated bamboo joints around the edges; others are made of stone-like finishes that set off bamboo perfectly to make your table seem decorator inspired.
By Home And Garden Editor
