Cozy Log Cabin Decoration Ideas for Your Home

Welcome coziness to your home with log cabin decorations. Start by picturing your cabin theme. Is it a high mountain hiking escape? Is it lakeside fishing cabin? Is it a prairie rodeo round-up cabin? Is it the hunter's little cabin in the woods? Imagine the fun space you'll create with cozy log cabin home decorations. The common theme among log cabin home decoration is simplicity. Old and used keep it more cozy and welcoming than new and perfect. Don't rush out and rack up credit card charges. Start by snooping through your closets and cupboards for items you already have bringing you a cozy cabin feeling.

The more used an item is, the more your home decorating will have the cozy log cabin look and feel. Used items cost less than new, and if you recycle and reuse items from other parts of your home, then your cozy log cabin decorating can be entirely free! Old flannel shirts, denim, or bandannas can be remade into throw pillow covers. Find these at yard sales, thrift stores, or in the bottom of your closet.

Raid the storage shed and grab your favorite fishing pole and lucky lures. Pair them up with some photographs of family fishing trips. Add a playful old comic book or two with fishing theme covers on them, and you've got a fun log cabin wall decoration for your home.

Leather furniture is totally log cabin. Quality leather lasts many, many years, so folks often tire of their leather furniture before it wears out. Great deals can be had on fabulous used leather furniture. Peruse the classified advertisements for used leather living room furniture. For color, think about the rustic browns of traditional cowboy saddles.

Estate sales are good ways to obtain beautiful leather furniture. Many estate sale business offer newsletters and email notifications for their upcoming sale dates. The Girls Estate Sales, in Tucson, Arizona, has an awesome reputation for professional service, sales with slashed prices later in the day, and giving back to the community. The Girls is a business that does not have to advertise. Their reputation spreads the word for them.

New leather furniture is available nationwide through Crate & Barrel and other reputable outlets. Blending old with new is easy in cozy log cabin home decorations, when keeping the traditional old leather natural brown colors in mind, in choosing leather furniture.

Old wooden furniture is always log cabin cozy. Yard sales, estate sales, and thrift stores are the best sources for furnishings. Don't be shy about painting or refinishing, if buying the furniture is for your enjoyment only. However, if you are looking at very old furniture for resale value, refrain from do-it-yourself repairs, and refer to "Using Antique Furniture to Decorate an Older Home."

Remember skillets and Dutch ovens? Before Teflon™ and microwave ovens took over American kitchens, they were common. Historically, cast iron skillets and Dutch ovens were the basics to many cabin cook supplies. Some households today still cook with both, so put them into your cozy log cabin home decoration.

Hang an old cast iron skillet on the wall. A small cast iron Dutch oven is a great centerpiece for a rustic dining table, filled with fruit. A pile of pine cones in that Dutch oven converts it to a great focal point by the fireplace. Fill that Dutch oven with all the media remote controls and place it on the old trunk you use in place of a coffee table, and there's a great little cozy log cabin scene by your favorite chair.

Nothing says, "Welcome to Our Cabin" like a great old cowboy hat and a pair of boots greeting you or your guests just inside your cozy log cabin's front door. Fill one boot with dried flowers and stand it upright. Let the other boot lay across the standing boot right below the hat hanging on a hook or at the stairs. Don't have any on hand? Head to the nearest thrift store that gives back to the community: Salvation Army, Savers, Goodwill, and here in Tucson, The Giving Tree Thrift Shop.

Cozy-up and cowboy-up to log cabin home decoration: It's playful, inexpensive and easy!