Oriental furnishings: matching furniture and decoration

With just a few lamps, a little decoration and a few selected pieces of furniture, you can create an oriental flair in your own four walls. Rich spice colors, fine fabrics and metal ornaments dominate the picture. We use various examples to show you how you can give your home a touch of the Orient.

Decorate living room oriental

Less is more? Not in the Orient. The rule here is: more is more! If you want to furnish yourself in an oriental way, you can draw on plenty - gold and heavy fabrics such as velvet or brocade should be spread throughout the room. But even with individual accents and a few accessories, you can revive the magic of 1001 nights.

However, if you like it a little more generous, it is best to use warm mustard and rust tones: golden mirrors, candle holders, plates and lamps create a coherent overall picture. Of course, the typical oriental patterns should not be missing. Diamonds and elaborate ornaments on pillows, tiles and chests of drawers create an authentic oriental flair.

An oriental-style living room with lots of earth and gold tones.

Photo: Westwing

The Morocco style comes up with typical oriental furniture and patterns.

Photo: Zara Home

Oriental style is also discreet: a little velvet and golden decoration are enough.

Photo: Bemz

Oriental colors

The traditional yellow slippers of the Moroccan men, the so-called babies, Tibetan monks' robes in sunny saffron and saris in bright pink - the Orient vibrates with colors. Transfer this joy to your own walls. For a start, one wall per room is enough. Does the sofa no longer match the backdrop? Then a grandfoulard - a bedspread - in the matching ornamental pattern makes it fit for the new style. The tones are repeated in richly embroidered organza curtains, in silk pillows and on hand-knotted carpets. There is no too much as long as you stay true to a color family, mix well and choose shades in red-orange or blue-green, for example.

In an open living and dining area there is plenty of space for bright colors, oriental patterns and selected wooden furniture.

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A golden vase here, a cut glass carafe there: Oriental decorations bring the wide world into the house.

Photo: Zenza Home

Oriental style in the bedroom

The oriental style brings a healthy dash of sensuality to the bedroom. Soft fabrics and patterned lamps play an important role here. Bright colors, natural materials combined with metallic details and screens are particularly relaxing.

Just like on vacation: A bedroom in an oriental style.

Photo: Maisons du Monde

This bedroom is lavishly oriental and very ornate.

Photo: Zenza Home

Metallic shine

The souks and bazaars of the Orient shine in the silver sheen and gold glow of water pipes, jugs and fruit bowls. The dining and serving dishes are proudly displayed and not hidden behind cabinet doors. Everything has its value: pewter plates next to tin cans, decorated brass jugs next to silver tea trays. What makes it shine and catches the light finds its place on tray tables and on shelves all around. Place a chest of drawers in front of a colored wall and arrange a collection of silver pieces and chandeliers on it. Finally, buy fresh flowers - and the house altar is ready.

A hand-knotted carpet, oriental ornaments on the wardrobe and bedside table and rich spice colors ensure an authentic style in the sense of 1001 nights.

Photo: KARE Design

Oriental pattern

Whether on Persian carpets, in lanterns made of finely chased metal or on decorated window shutters - the Orient is overflowing with ornaments. The Moroccans literally furnish their houses with intense wall colors, mostly on clay plaster.

Chests and wooden furniture are only considered finished in the Orient when they are painted. Floors, house entrances, stairs and columns are shown with tile decorations. Elaborate ceramic mosaic or painted cement slabs are usually used for this. Colorful diamond and flower patterns tell stories from the paradise garden. You can continue this tradition at home with a self-made mosaic table, decorated lanterns or a finely painted wooden chest. Do you have the opportunity to completely redesign a room? Then let the specialist lay out a sample of mini tiles.

The oriental Morocco style can be easily implemented with natural linen and earth tones.

Photo: Zara Home

Exceptional: A bedroom with a Morocco look that is reminiscent of glamping.

Photo: KARE Design

Oriental patterned table lamps in various sizes create a cozy atmosphere.

Photo: Zenza Home

Like in the Sultan's Palace: Oriental lamps create a fairytale atmosphere.

Photo: Suppan & Suppan

Oriental play of light

Most of the lamps, lanterns and lanterns in the oriental style are made of metal and provide warm light. The various decorations conjure up a fairytale pattern on the walls.

Flame festivals illuminate the nights in the palaces of the Indian Maharajas. The walls are decorated with gold leaf and mirror splinters, the candlelight returns thousands of times and always paints new silhouettes on the ceilings. Do it yourself and bring the starry sky home: For example, you can fill the walls with mirrors in different sizes and shapes and exchange the light bulb for candle shimmer. To do this, place tealights in colorfully painted water glasses, hang up a dozen lanterns inside and light oil lamps.

Oriental lamps are usually very high quality and look noble.

Photo: Zenza Home

Tiles for walls and floors

Fortunately, nowadays you don't have to completely re-tile everything if you want a new design for walls or floors. There are numerous self-adhesive tiles that bring us the oriental look in the kitchen and bathroom in no time.

Like in a Moroccan courtyard: Oriental tiles can be used in the entrance as well as in the kitchen or bathroom.

Photo: Original Style

Even a small area with patterned tiles creates an oriental atmosphere in the bathroom.

Photo: Original Style

If you like it more subtle, you can do without colored tiles and instead use the classic black and white instead.

Photo: Lumizil

Oriental textiles

Moroccan Berbers usually upholster their tent floors with several layers of hand-knotted sheep wool carpets. They also hang kilims and hand-woven blankets in front of the entrance to protect themselves from the cold night air. Relaxing while drinking tea in pillow mountains.

Emulate this wealth and stock up. Your Persian carpet has earned a second spring. Dress up a corner in the living room with covered mattresses, poufs and thick seat cushions. Then garnish the new warehouse with covered neck rolls, pillows and sofa cushions with brocade and velvet covers. The closer you are to the ground, the better. This is how the oriental furnishings become authentic.

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Light oriental Morocco style curtains.

Photo: anthropology

Oriental-style chest of drawers made of mango wood.

Photo: anthropology

Orient meets boho: Moroccan curtains.

Photo: anthropology

So-called sticker tiles can be applied in no time and provide an oriental flair.

Photo: Original Style

Decorative elements on the wall provide oriental flair.

Photo: Affari AB

Typically oriental: patina on the walls.

Photo: Bemz / Designers Guild

Courage: With the oriental style it is common to hang several lamps side by side.

Photo: Zenza Home

Oriental beauty: Different Zenza lamps put us in the holiday mood.

Photo: Zenza Home

Elaborate patterns and fringes on fabrics and dressers are typically oriental.

Photo: Maisons du Monde

Oriental furnishing made easy

Whether you are planning a complete makeover for your home or just want to redecorate something here and there: the oriental style is implemented faster than most people think. With the right colors, patterns, some decoration and indirect lighting, you are instantly in the realm of 1001 nights. One or the other really oriental piece of furniture or a carpet with an ikat pattern gives the room that certain exotic extra.

Violetta Hoffmann editors haus.de