How to Create a Santa Fe Interior Design Office
The Santa Fe style intermingles Spanish and Southwestern Native American influences, with inspiration from natural, regional materials. A Santa Fe design-inspired office blends the functional aspects of an office with elements of this Southwestern style. For some offices, a select few Santa Fe design items will provide the appropriate Santa Fe touch. Other offices may decide to incorporate Santa Fe elements throughout the interior design plan. Does this Spark an idea?
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Create a Santa Fe Style Office Interior
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Consider the original design elements of the Santa Fe style as you begin to create an office design plan. Dating back to the 17th and 18th centuries, Spanish and Anasazi influences co-existed. Hand-woven wool rugs with Native American motifs sat under Spanish travel trunks wrapped with iron straps. Pottery made by Native Americans rested on locally made, hand-hewn wooden tables. Spanish-made dressers held clothing dyed from local plants. Today, we call that melding of cultures, styles, and motifs, the Santa Fe style. Look at books and website images and begin to visualize how this style might transform your work space.
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Decide if your office will be limited to Santa Fe colors only, or will include other colors. Santa Fe colors are earth tones, including light and dark brown, dark red, medium and dark green, sky blue, midnight blue, cream, orange, and yellow. These are the colors of native Santa Fe clothing, jewelry, pottery, weavings, as well as the desert and mountain landscapes. These colors could dominate a Santa Fe designed office, or be intermingled with other similar colors.
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Determine how many Santa Fe architectural aspects can be applied to your office. Architectural elements of Santa Fe design include exposed beams, curved walls, rounded, adobe fireplaces, heavy wooden doors, wooden lintels above windows, and stucco walls. Historically, Santa Fe floors were originally dirt-packed, but nowadays they are usually wood or tile.
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Consider the functional factors of your office furniture needs in relation to the design elements of the Santa Fe style. Wood--rough and hand-hewn--is typical of the Santa Fe region. Storage of equipment or supplies could be in plain, wooden chests and cupboards. Plain or painted wooden tables, or heavy, old doors turned into tables, would work as desks and conference room tables. Seating furniture--wooden with simple upholstery--would be appropriate for a Santa Fe office interior.
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Use art and accessories to complete your Santa Fe design-inspired office. Paintings and prints might depict Southwestern themes and landscapes. Additional accessories could include Santa Fe folk sculpture, hand-woven baskets, or wrought-iron decorative pieces. A few additional touches, appropriate to Santa Fe design, include large candles, crosses, cactus, images of Kokopelli, and hanging floral baskets. To maintain the Santa Fe feel, keep the floors mostly bare, and add textile accents using wall hangings, throw pillows, or small rugs woven with Southwestern motifs.
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