A beautiful blend of Tuscan and French Country style, mixed with Moorish and Mexican elements, Spanish-style homes are quite unique. Its rustic yet elegant look has a timeless appeal that is hard to beat. Spanish-style homes, architecturally speaking, are fairly common in states like California, Nevada, Arizona, Texas, New Mexico and Florida, but that doesn’t mean you have to live there for your home to have Spanish flair.
If you love the Spanish look, but don’t live in a Spanish-style home, there are still ways to create the design style inside, even if you’re lacking the architectural aspects. Here are some tips on how to incorporate Spanish-style design into your home through things such as color, textiles, furniture, and accents.
Color
A Spanish-style home is full of warm, earth tones. Typical colors generally include warm hues of reds, oranges, browns, with accents of turquoise green, blue and yellow. Much of this color is displayed through textured walls and ceilings, wood flooring or beams, decorative tiles, large floral arrangements, and a variety of accents.
Textiles
A variety of colorful textiles help complete the Spanish-style look. Full-length velvet window treatments, Old World-style wall tapestries, oriental or Navajo rugs, and fabrics on accent pillows, throws, and bedding covered in patterns influenced from the Middle East, Africa, and Mexico, are all surefire ways to surround yourself with Spanish style. Even something as simple as draping colorful ethnic textiles over the backs of dining rooms chairs is an easy way to breathe Spanish-style into your home.
Furniture
Mission-style dark, distressed wood furnishings and leather, tend to be the common choices for Spanish-style design. Wood selections fitting for this design would include ebony, walnut, butternut, teak, mahogany and rosewood. Furniture accents of copper, leather and iron are also characteristic of this style.
Accents
To compliment the rustic elegance of Spanish-style design, it’s important to put some focus into the accents. The proper accents are what add character and charm to this already beautiful and unique decorating style. Traditional accents include things such as displays of colorful pottery, vases and urns, framed oil paintings, and candleholders made of iron or wood. Wrought iron is also a trademark of Spanish-style interior design, so don’t hold back on adding little touches like curtain rods, cabinet and door hardware, light switch covers, wall sconces, hanging pendants or chandeliers, baker’s racks, and fire screens.
