How to Get That Earthy-Chic Look
Fear not being labeled a hippie. This earthy style celebrates natural beauty in a most sophisticated and modern way
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What is earthy chic? It's that light, bright room filled with natural wood and neutral tones. It's modern and spare, but never cold. It relies on sunlight and lots of white and the beauty of the natural world.
The five ingredients for creating an earthy-chic room are:
1. Exposed wood. It can be beams, walls, floors or details, but it always shows the grain. And a natural edge is even better.
2. Natural light. Big windows with minimal coverings. Outside is often as important as inside in an earthy chic room.
3. Neutral colors. Whites, grays, browns and tans, all of them light and reflective.
4. Clean lines and no clutter. Earthy chic is all about showing off the materials, not the collections.
5. Where there are patterns, they are ancient and traditional. Navajo blankets, ikats, suzanis, Indian block prints or African fabrics.
As with any design style, this look is open to interpretation and personality. Here are 14 beautiful versions of earthy chic.
The five ingredients for creating an earthy-chic room are:
1. Exposed wood. It can be beams, walls, floors or details, but it always shows the grain. And a natural edge is even better.
2. Natural light. Big windows with minimal coverings. Outside is often as important as inside in an earthy chic room.
3. Neutral colors. Whites, grays, browns and tans, all of them light and reflective.
4. Clean lines and no clutter. Earthy chic is all about showing off the materials, not the collections.
5. Where there are patterns, they are ancient and traditional. Navajo blankets, ikats, suzanis, Indian block prints or African fabrics.
As with any design style, this look is open to interpretation and personality. Here are 14 beautiful versions of earthy chic.
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A strip of horizontal wood paneling gives this room interest, warmth and major design cachet. And note the windows: no coverings.
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| This one has it all: white walls, natural light, clean lines and big windows. But it would be merely another empty modern space it it weren't for the wall paneled in weathered gray wood. |
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| This modern eclectic room gets its earthy-chic vibe from the driftwood mantel and all that white. |
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| Where there are knickknacks, they are natural: wood, pods, bones, rocks, shells and grasses. |
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| An accent wall of horizontal wood gives this spare, bright and neutral room a cozy modern cabin vibe. |
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Earthy chic can be more traditional, too. The neutral, earth-tone palette works beautifully with a few ornate pieces and a traditional layout.
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This great room is warm and modern, made earthy with exposed wooden beams, a neutral palette and all that natural light.
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This is modern farmhouse style with an earthy-chic flair. Every material used in here is natural. And everything is set off beautifully by the vanilla-white walls.
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Color is not verboten in an earthy-chic room. It just needs to be a color you might readily see in nature, like lavender.
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| A cozy, multipatterned room with lots of wood and white. It has depth and lots of personality, but it is fully earthy chic. |
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| This huge modern bedroom has all the right stuff, including a cowhide area rug. What could be more earthy than an animal skin? |
This sauna-like bathroom is spare and clean and looks like a spa.
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Touches of wood in an otherwise white and geometric bathroom add interest. The lovely organic line of natural-edge wood is always one of a kind.
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A focus on the outside and natural light. This view is almost like a mural.
Ideabook published on Nov. 28, 2012.
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Wish it showed up better, but the walls in my photo are a pale peach, and outside that window is a huge wisteria vine, with lavender flowers in season
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