Redecorate with African Home Décor and Support Fair Trade
…And we’re back to talking about Africa, friends. Click the images to check the items out. Some of them are really absolutely beautiful works of art!
For those who want to redecorate their home with African décor, now is the time. You can quite easily go online and decorate your home with African ornaments, furniture and textiles straight from the African artists and craftsmen. Efforts to make African products available to the world online have been highly successful and resulted in improved economies in many of the poorest areas of Africa. Support Fair Trade when you shop online, look for the Fair Trade designation to ensure the African future.
You will find a wide array of African selections over the internet for your redecoration project.
A stunning white leather mousemat intricately engraved with fine images of African wildlife such as the Rhino, Elephant, Lion and Zebra is sure to elicit gasps of admiration when hung up as wall décor in any room.
From the Congo come the Bakuba cushion covers. Raffia is woven by loom into a geometrically designed square to be attached to a leather or cotton cushion casing. These are beautiful pieces of art that would add color and class to any couch or chair in your home.
When you set the table, fine African textiles add elegance and grace to any setting. Zambian cotton table mats, runners and full cloths are available to add beauty to your sit down suppers. The colors are neutral, comfortable earth tones and the designs range from traditional to ultra modern. Rosewood carved serving bowls, salad servers and condiment sets from Kenya and Tanzania complement your Zambian textiles and encourage a relaxing meal time experience.
You can even decorate your bathroom in African décor. Perhaps the most fun items are the Zambian recycled metal items. You can find crocodile, elephant and fancy fish toilet paper holders for adding interest to the bathroom visits. Zambian welders take used metal and create fancy mirror frames that will look beautiful in any bathroom.
Also from Zambia comes some of the most gorgeous, handmade teak, mahogany and rosewood furniture you can imagine. This furniture is of highest quality and available by order in many designs or you can submit your own design to be custom made. The wood used for Zambian furniture is harvested from controlled tree stands managed as a renewable, sustainable resource.
Decorate your walls with hand painted wall hangings reflecting animals and Maasai people in scenes of traditional day to day life. These wall hangings come ready to hang in all color schemes and sizes, you are sure to find many you will want for your own. Wall hangings are a simple way to invite Africa into your home.
Nothing is wasted in Africa. In Mombasa dead coconut palm leaves are made into lamp shades. They may be dyed a variety of colors or may be natural in color. The palm leaf shades allow light to pass in various degrees to create an effect much like flickering flames of a campfire.
African ornaments add to the sense of Africa when added to your home’s décor. Online you will find be able to obtain any and all of the African items you need to redo your home no matter whether you are simply switching floor rugs or doing a major overhaul and replacing furniture in addition to redoing the window treatments and wall hangings.
When shopping online for your African themed décor, be sure to look for Fair Trade items to assure that the craftsmen and artists receive a fair income to continue their trade.
PS. If you’re looking for textiles and some awesome wall hangings, take a look at StrictlyAfrica.com and at Novica.com. They also have lots of other beautiful exotic goodies!
An ancient country, India is full of diversity with cultures, traditions and lifestyles varying radically as you go from the North to the South and from the East to the West of the country. Exquisite, vibrant, spellbinding handicrafts have been the signature of Indian handicrafts for centuries. They have always been in demand by a world hungry for Indian artistry and craftsmanship.
All of these statistics give one the impression that all is well and good in India. This is a dreadfully wrong perception. The slums of New Delhi alone are home to 3 million of the poorest of the poor. These are people that have no education and no hopes of a better life for their children. That is, they have no hope without such programs as those of the Fair Trade groups.
