How to Create a Mountain Inspired Interior

Fresh landscapes and natural elements provide fabulous inspiration for home interiors as they bring the beauty of the outdoors, indoors. MOUNTAIN inspired home decor creates a sophisticated interior setting with earthen tones and alpine shapes that will create a focal point in your chosen room. Whether you love the icy tones of glacial peaks or the forest greens of summer Alps this look is sure to create visual detail and texture in both classic and contemporary homes.

To create this look select natural inspired coloured schemes that can be used as feature or accent tones. For a fjord inspired colour palette opt for cool glacial blues, ice whites and mint greens that will create a fresh and bright finish in your chosen room. If you wish to create a more rich and textural mountain colour scheme partner deep navy, marine blue, misty grey and fern green that come together to create a rich forest ambiance. A more uplifting, summery atmosphere can be achieved by combining a selection of greens ranging from deep forest green to light pistachio along with soft beige and chestnut.

Wall murals are a great way of incorporating this style into your home and they make a fabulous feature in a bedroom, living room or dining room. Select a mountain landscape design featuring varying peaks and forestry or opt for alpine scenery with snow capped peaks and lake vistas.

Alternatively choose a wallpaper featuring tree or leaf print detailing or for a more sleek and modern finish opt for wallpapers that depict geometric triangle peaks or bold coloured abstract designs in vintage colours for a retro interior feel.

You can also incorporate a mountain theme into your cushions using photographic imagery or abstract designs that are sure to create a focal point against a plain sofa or bed set.

For a sophisticated appearance select monochrome and grey cushions featuring watercolour or straight edged mountain patterns that will look great on a plain black or white leather seating area. A more nature inspired design can be achieved using a photographic mountain print cushion that can be partnered with tree and leaf prints as well as woodland animals such as squirrels and deer for a cute and quirky look.

Accessories give an important finishing touch to any interior space and mountain designs are one of the hottest prints to hit the high street in 2016. To create a stylish and detailed dining area then create a table setting using fabulous mountain print crockery and add alpine touches with glacial blue glassware and crisp white or grey napkins and placemats.

For a fresh spring like finish compliment your crockery with a fern green tablecloth, copper glasses and create a centrepiece of ferns, acorns and alpine flowers. A large piece of photographic wall art will create a focal point on a plain painted feature wall and is the perfect way of creating a window like scene that works particularly well in more urban homes. Abstract triangle shaped art in retro colour schemes will also look great in a neutral or bold interior space.

Storage is an important part of any home interior and I absolutely adore these painted mountain wall shelves (left) that will look fabulous in a bedroom, home office or hallway area. They can be used to display small alpine style ornaments, books or even keys and look great placed in a group formation for a series of Alps that will create a focal point on your wall.

When selecting furniture for your mountain inspired interior keep the materials as natural as possible with rustic style oak or reclaimed wood items that will compliment the earthen colour tones of your chosen decor.

For more ideas on creating a mountain inspired interior design, take a look at our latest Pinterest board - Pinterest - Mountain Interiors