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Know Everything About Rattan Furniture and Your Home
Today there
are many ways to decorate a home with exotic furniture for a unique
design. Whether you prefer Asian or Western d?cor, you may be
interested in using bamboo or rattan furniture or flooring to give
your home a unique look and feel. A member of the grass family,
bamboo is a slender hollow stock that has been used by Easterners for
their home furnishings for centuries. Rattan, on the other hand, is
more of a vine-like structure, although quite sturdy. It has an outer
skin, unlike bamboo, which makes it more suitable for welding or
screwing furniture and flooring pieces together. This is why many
customers nowadays ask for rattan rather than bamboo furnishings.
Bamboo grows
in Asia, parts of Africa and North America, and northern Australia.
However, neither bamboo nor rattan has been significantly developed
for commercial purposes. Still relatively new and cost-effective,
both bamboo and rattan add gracious touches of Eastern culture to a
carefully cultivated home. You can start with a little to see how you
like it, and later add more to round out the comfort and beauty of
your home's design and decorating scheme.
Bamboo rugs,
mats, and flooring provide an essential foundation that is less
costly than traditional woven carpet. However, some people don't care
for the look or texture of these materials. However, in the hands of
a careful decorator and in a home where modernity is not the be-all
of existence, one might do a lot with either product to create a
comfortable, attractive environment that savors oriental themes.
Since largely young women and children harvest bamboo, using these
products helps to provide regular work and income for individuals
involved in the industry.
For light,
elegant touches throughout your home or in selected key areas, you
may wish to shop for bamboo settees, tables, or even baskets to
create a faint but discernible Eastern presence in the bathroom, den,
sun room, or other area. Decorator wall fans of oriental design, an
Eastern sari draped over a sea chest, and a framed art piece of
shells or pearls can give the impression of a faraway fantasy world
as well as a home that is simply furnished
in high style.
A room that
contains large rattan furniture conveys the impression of comfort and
style with simplicity in design and modesty in cost. Silk draperies,
linen throws, and a host of other added accents help to finish the
display of Eastern art and ingenuity. Shop the latest catalogues from
website sales firms that offer a wide selection in bamboo
and rattan products at competitive pricing. Be careful that your
rattan furniture purchase does not clash with the other items in a
given area, or indeed, the rest of the house. Everything should
coordinate not only in size, style, and color, but in d?cor, theme,
and taste. Rather than use bamboo for the sake of using bamboo, look
for ways to make it fit with your furnishings
rather than forcing a look that your home is not ready to accommodate. |
