5 Easy Ways to Add Boho Chic Accents to your Home Decor

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Boho Chic, or Bohemian Home Decor is resurfacing in 2015 (and probably beyond) so if this retro-hippie vibe really speaks to you, like it does to me, keep reading!

Here are 5 quick, easy ways to add a "boho chic" vibe to your home decor, whether you live in a tiny studio apartment (like I do) or a large home.

1. Love Patterns? Don't be afraid to use them- you can add and even use colorfully patterned fabrics in your home decor, from rug patterns to bedding, to lighting. Patterns and vibrant colors. Lots of them!

I love the way these turkish mosaic style lanterns tie in the patterns in the pillows and rug... There's so many ways to use them in your home.

2. Mix and Match Everything - from dinnerware, to dishes, and within color schemes from one room to the next. Have a Turkish themed kitchen and have an Indian themed reading nook. Use Spanish tiles in your stairway that lead to your colorful outdoor patio space. Or simply add tiny pops of color to one room, like your bathroom and sprinkle it throughout...

My colorful ceramic dishes and bowls are great for adding a pop of color to any room including your bathroom. And add some crystals in a dish or two to uplift the energy of your space.

3. Add a plant or ten. :) Sprinkle in a little Mother Earth- whether its adding hanging plants in every room or having one or two small herbal plants of basil or oregano in the kitchen. You can even put together a makeshift garden on your patio. Being surrounded by plants can increase oxygen levels, help you feel grounded and connected to mother nature and they actually purify the air by removing toxins especially when living in smaller dense spaces like a studio apartment.

4. Mix Old and New. Don't be afraid to use quirky and handmade things like the quilt from Great Grandma Sally paired with colorful pillows from Anthropologie. I love this cool Victorian Rocking Chair. I'm not sure that its from the victorian era but if I saw something like this in a thrift shop, I'd swipe it in a minute!

Make sure and use colorful throws and blankets like these to add warmth to your furniture...

5. Heat things up. Using warm tones throughout your home can help your environment feel warm and inviting. Besides using warmly toned (red, yellow and orange) blankets in your reading nook, if you have an actual fireplace, use it!  No fireplace? Add a candle to a room or ten. Even just sprinkling warm yellow, gold, red and orange colored art throughout certain rooms can really heat things up.

I love the way this gold heart adds color and warmth to any room...

Spruce up your fireplace...

Or even just add colorful candles...

I hope you all enjoyed my 5 easy tips for adding boho chic accents to your home or apartment. And for even more boho home decor ideas, check out more of my recommendations via my Boho Home Decor Pinterest Board.

xo
Aziza

Brand New Handmade Mugs and Bowls in my Pottery Shop

Hello everyone! After a very, very long hiatus from this blog...I'm so happy to be back! And I'm back with a New Year...and New Pottery!

The truth is I not only had a very long hiatus from writing in my pottery blog, but also from making pottery as well. I have been in the process of healing from a broken finger and several surgeries thereafter, for the past few years and I actually haven't made pottery in years, which is why I have not posted anything ceramics related here. But since moving to Santa Barbara, California at the end of 2012, I was recently able to find a new space to make pottery again and am so happy to reconnect with one of my first loves- pottery.

I'm still healing my broken finger years later so most of my new pottery is a combination of both wheel thrown and slab built pottery.

I've also begun using a new technique in my work where I essentially use textured fabric to create slab formed mugs and platters. The print impressed onto each mug or plate is different and unique to each.

The finished look is unlike many pieces I've seen lately days. You could even call it "boho chic dinnerware"...or "boho chic home decor" as I often refer to it! In my ideal world my home decor would include not just colorful dinnerware, soap dishes and vases, but also colorful furniture, throws, pillows, blankets, bedding and overall design even down to the tiles in the bathroom and on the spanish style staircase.

In fact, if you want to know what my ideal boho home looks like, feel free to check out my dream "boho chic home decor" vision board on pinterest.

But back to my pottery and whats new in my shop...

This new small yet intense red plate has circle flower patterns and I love the way the glaze is thinner and thicker in some areas, revealing or hiding parts of the underlying pattern.

Similarly, here is an intense red soap dish in a square shape instead of a circle where the pattern is barely revealed, which causes the intensity of the color to be even richer, which I think will add a nice pop of color to any bathroom or kitchen when used as a soap dish or small plate...some of my customers also love to use these small dishes as holders for small delicate keepsakes like earrings or rings to be kept on their nightstand.

Besides new plates, platters and soap dishes here are a few new bowls with some designs carved in. This one is inspired by Japanese shine bowls and you can see this one and a few other bowls here...

and here

Here are some fun abstract leaf patterns 

Here are some fun bright wine colored mugs

and a few more here...

I love this ocean blue mug!

Besides mugs, I also have a few random things, like this orange tumbler/vase

Many more items are in my shop so please pop in and check them out! 

Talk soon!

xo

Aziza