Animal house: transform your home decor into a stylish safari

Do you want to live in an animal house? Do it with style: follow our tips for an impeccable safari home décor.

The home décor of every house should reflect its owner’s personality, the lifestyle he pursues, the dreams and aspirations. For true adventure lovers, interior design has to look wild and bold, as the travels and trips that made their lives special. What is more adventurous than a safari in wild nature? Find out with us how to make your home a real animal house, and recreate the atmosphere of a safari, combining animal prints with design trends, for a wildly classy interior decoration.

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Welcome to the jungle

This particular style of interior design is certainly not suitable for anyone, but it that can vary between different identities: from chic to glamor, from soft to luxurious, from bold to classy. In any case, it is undoubtedly a style that goes out of the ordinary that, ultimately, is increasingly fascinating even the interior designers. The safari and animal style will bring into your home not only unusual decorative patterns, but also tribal vibrations, unique textures, as pleasant to the touch as the an animal fur, alternating smooth and shiny surfaces with rough and opaque ones, depending on the different designs and materials used. This style has a strong aesthetic impact that can appear exotic, vital, creative and theatrical at the same time. Though charming and fascinating, safari style and animal prints can be hard to balance in home décor: since they look so bold and intense, you must not overdo, in order to avoid a chaotic and messy interior design. So, we want to welcome you to the jungle, but a very special one: a jungle where animal prints and exotic shapes meet elegance and interior design trends, where furniture can be wild and functional at the same time, where the environment is savage, yet comfortable. We have selected the coolest ideas for your animal house, that will remind you of your past trips or inspire you for your future adventures in exotic lands.  Choosing a safari or African look for your home, means that you have to learn how to correctly combine materials, shapes, fabrics, decorations, patterns and colors, creating harmonious environments, with the same fascination of cultures and lands far far away.

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Mix and match

With such an unconventional style of decoration, harmony and balance are the keys to have an elegant result. Through small tricks it is possible to give to your home the atmosphere of distant and suggestive lands, without making it look chaotic. The trick consists in knowing how to mix with a modern and ironic touch the peculiarities and characteristics of wild animals, from zebra to leopard, from tiger to python. Don’t let the animals overcome your interiors completely, but select a few elements that can stand out thanks to their safari vibe. Not only the animal prints will be exalted and enhanced, but the whole environment will look far more harmonious. And remember: don’t put too many wild beasts together in one room. A couple of different animal patterns can work well together, but don’t go too far by choosing a bunch of zebra, leotard and tiger accessories all next to each other. The main advice to follow is basically to think carefully about how to combine different elements and styles to furnish your home with a tasteful safari style.

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Go wild!

A living room in African ethnic style must recall an oasis of peace made of comfortable sofas full of cushions from the typical fantasies of those lands, wooden shelves, light curtains that remind the lodgings of the lodges and for those who are not ' animalist, even a hunting trophy on the main wall. One of 2018 trends is to combine animal prints pattern with classic style furniture. The contrast between the wild vibe of the prints and the luxurious design of the piece of furniture will create an irresistible contrast. Look at this elegant sofa: the bold zebra pattern meets the rich classic style of the couch, to create something that is truly special and unique. 

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African drums echoing

The animal-style house must be rich in details that remind the African populations, the animals of the savannah and the artworks created by the artisans of those distant lands. From curtains to cushions, the fabrics must be dominated by the colors of the earth and the patterns linked to the world of African world. Animal pattern must absolutely be present without falling into excess, but no one forbids making a mix of mantles: leopard, striped or zebra-striped can coexist in the same environment, if you are able to be tasteful and elegant, as we mentioned before. On the walls or on the ground or on the service tables, there are also statues, pottery, masks and objects of various kinds typical of tribal culture and African artistic traditions. Colors for an African-style house should never be too rich and heavy. As this style consists of furniture and accessories made of materials such as wood, raw cotton, clay or leather, the characteristic colors can range from light brown to darker, going from the variety of ocher to terracotta. The safari touch can also be added through your travels souvenirs, or with some unconventional decorative elements that will bring an exoting wind into your interiors.

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A zebra in the bathroom

You may think the bathroom is no place for a safari décor, but you are wrong. Carpets are the ideal accessories if you want to give a certain atmosphere to the environment: an easy way to bring the wild into your bathroom too. Zebras, pythons or tigers will find their way into this peaceful room, to add some personality to its décor. For the most eccentric ones, another way to let animal prints in your bathroom, is decorating your walls with them. Picture yourself enjoying a warm bath, following your thought, dreaming about travelling in far lands, while getting inspired by a beautiful fresco painting on your wall. That’s right: it is now possible to get works of art right on your wall, thanks to artists that bring true art to your home, with taste and professional skills.

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