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Give Your Home Office Some Style With Nantucket Decorating
By Lee Dobbins


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Nantucket decorating is a charming and comfortable approach that will lend style and interest to your home office. This is an interior design that draws its good looks from seashells and ocean themed items as well as shades of yellow and blue. Below are various ideas on attaining the style of the seaside in your home office with Nantucket decor.

Every good home office needs adequate lighting, not only on the desk to illuminate what you are working on but also overhead for general lighting and on side tables, filing cabinets or credenzas to give it a more home feel. For this tyle, lighting fixtures should be a reflection of the ocean - one great look is to get a clear glass lamp and fill it with shells. You might also consider a lighted ceiling fan that has large wicker paddles for a breezy summer feel.

Decorating with office staples and accents in your home office ought to help round out the decorating style. For decorating with accessories, an upscale look is most suitable. Include accessories that exude your own personal style to the room for a different application that is all your own. Sprinkle some shells around the room, on window sills or the desk to bring the Nantucket feel inside.

Window treatments are key to any design and for this look you could go with sheers to keep the room light and breezy. If you want a more private look, try plantation shutters in light wood or painted white.

Buying an interesting desk and chairs should help enhance your room interior decorating scheme. Traditionally, pine items match terrific with this design style. For the most part, Nantucket decorating is better paired with nautical style furniture.

One area a good number of us don’t consider when redesigning or redecorating is the floor, and you should try to be certain to take your Nantucket decorating the floor by adding most suitable wall to wall carpet or a large area rug if you have wood flooring. Remember that your floor decor is a big part of your design approach, so be sure to consider something that coordinates with both the colors together with the room design. Take a look at decorating with organic or short pile rugs in beige tones which pull in the other colors in the room design.

See how Nantucket decorating can transform your home office? Getting a little style in your home office can make it a more fun place to work as well as integrate it with the rest of the home.

Lee Dobbins writes for http://www.decor8ting.com/ where you can learn more about decorating styles and get more home decorating tips.



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