How to Decorate Your Room With a Mardi Gras Theme
Celebrated with parades, parties, and exuberant behavior, Mardi Gras is a wild festival of color and activity; with purple, green and gold costumes and decorations; beads, masks, feathers and balloons. The best-known Mardi Gras celebration in the United States is held in New Orleans each year, with the main day of parades and celebration being on the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday. You can create a dynamic, exciting room decorated with a Mardi Gras theme, where every day will be like a celebration. Does this Spark an idea?
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Instructions
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Paint walls white or eggshell, to provide a backdrop for the bright, wild colors of Mardi Gras.
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Shop for a comforter with the traditional Mardi Gras colors of purple, green and gold. If you cannot find a comforter in those colors, choose a bedspread in a solid green, purple or gold, and highlight the bed with toss pillows and shams in the other colors.
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Decorate your walls with elaborate Harlequin, jester and half-face masks. Feathers, sequins, ribbons and trim make the Mardi Gras mask a work of decadent art.
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String loops of green, gold and purple beads over lamps, doorknobs, or on the edges of cabinets and bookshelves.
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Hang posters with Mardi Gras images on your walls. You can find a wide range of possibilities at websites such as AllPosters.com.
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Keep furniture simple with black or white finishes. The accessories will provide enough color and you don't want your room to become tacky or overwhelming.
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Look for room accessories such as trash basket, desk organizers or lamps in the Mardi Gras colors of purple, green and gold.
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Tips & Warnings
The Mardi Gras carnival celebrated in New Orleans each year is one of the best known carnivals in the world. The carnival season begins 12 days after Christmas on Jan. 6, and continues until the day before Ash Wednesday. This day is Mardi Gras, French for "Fat Tuesday," referring to the tradition of eating extra food to prepare for Lent, which begins on Ash Wednesday.
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