How to Decorate a Horse-Themed Room With Green & Pink
When your love of horses is matched only by your love of spring pastels, decorate a horse-themed room in green and pink. This combination of motif and colors can work anywhere; use it in a child's bedroom, a living room, a kitchen or a sun room. Choose shades of green and pink that evoke the mood you want to create, and incorporate horse imagery for a room that feels country club preppy or urban kitschy or calls to mind a Parisian carousel. Does this Spark an idea?
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Things You'll Need
- Green and pink paint samples
- Green and pink textiles
- Horse imagery
- Green and pink accessories
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Select the appropriate shades of green and pink to set the tone for your room. Hot pink and chartreuse say "fairy princess tween room"; softly glowing rose and dusty sage say "tea and cakes in the sun room." Pair your greens with two neutral shades to create a unified design. Ghost white and silver set off the bright tones in the tween's room; cream and gray maintain soothing calm in the tea salon.
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Gather your horses. Enlarge several photographs or photocopies of unlicensed horse images to create giant posters for an ode-to-the-cavalry living room. Hang horse coffee mugs on hooks inside open shelving in the kitchen. Dala horses, Swedish wood carvings painted cheerful, bright colors, can enliven a fireplace mantel. Overdo it by making up your bed in horse-patterned sheets and pillows and filling the master bathroom with horse-themed paint-by-numbers pieces.
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Select pink and green wall and ceiling treatments. Choose wallpaper with pink bloom-covered vines or a sweet pink and green vertical stripe. Paper only the top half of the wall if you don't want to overwhelm the room; paint the chair rail, wainscoting and baseboard green. Let a carnation-pink ceiling glow in a room painted basil green. Pink crown molding can set off a graphic black-and-white horse mural wrapping around a contemporary living room painted olive.
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Acquire green and pink accessories. Build a display from plywood for your collection of ceramic ponies; paint it hot pink, hang it in the foyer, and light it so your pets can greet everyone who walks in the front door. Cover accent chairs with pink velvet; put one woven moss-green blanket on each. Have an automotive detailer paint your refrigerator pink -- and the dishwasher, while she's at it. Put plenty of green and pink boxes and baskets in a child's room to store toys. Green curtains can be soothing; pink curtains can be romantic. Adorn a beige chaise lounge with green velvet throw pillows, including one featuring a detailed embroidery of a pony.
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References
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