I love animal prints! I have an animal print comforter--but my bedroom is not safari style. If I ever get it picked up enough for a pic, I will post.

On the gallery wall in the dining room question thread, there is a gorgeous dining room with an animal print rug.

Recently at Home Goods I have seen animal print cube and bench style ottomans as well as pillows and throws. Those could be easy ways to add it as an easily removeable accent.

Thanks!!! Luv the ottoman idea, that is easy and can easily be changed if and when I grow out of my animal print phase. :-)

Good question. :) I would love to see pics too. Currently I have a few leopard throw pillows that I got at an auction a few years ago. I have been looking at these drapes at horchow for some time and they are on sale again.

I was thinking of putting them in my living room but I am not sure I could pull it off. it is really a mish mash room with a orange/blue green carpet, green walls, DH's desk, a treadmill behind a screen, a piano, an asian huge book case thing and DH will be hanging swords on the wall (don't ask)

I have also been looking for drapes that have orange, blue, green and brown or some combination. Hmmm. Maybe I could put the leopard in the hallway. Now you have me thinking!

Sorry for rambling. :) I think my LR is going to be a disaster no matter what I do in there with so much stuff in it.

Animal prints are considered timeless and classic when used in decorating, but, IMO, it's a fine line of when it can become tacky and over the top gimmicky.
A little goes a long, but that's not saying animal print wall to wall is too much--it's how it's used.

Like faux flowers/plants, use the closest to natural/nature as possible--meaning don't do it in fun colors unless your place has that vibe to start.

I would suggest getting an animal print throw to start.

I agree with starting small. I plan to add a couple giraffe pillows to my couch once I find fabric. I love giraffes and DH won't let me have a real one so I getting pillows instead. LOL.

I agree, start off with a throw and maybe a pillow. I just heard a decorator on TV recently say that animal prints should only be used for accents and never as the main "decor" in a room. Then, like others have said, it gets to be tacky looking. If you use too much then you locked in a theme and that will get old in a short period of time. Use things that can easily and inexpensively be changed out as your tastes change. Don't forget to post some pictures for us to see.

I recently added a small animal print ottoman to my family room. It's the only animal print accent in my room.

Someone on here had an animal print chair. I think it was mom2fourboys. I don't know where she got it but I loved it, and would buy one like it if I could find it. Maybe others here have seen it.

My dogs have a leopard print bed!
I also have a small ottoman, from Home Goods, that I got several years ago. It's a brown/white "zebra" stripe and I find that it's very versatile! I had it in the living room for a while but now it's in our dining room/library.
That is the extent of my animal prints.

I agree with what chijim said.

I'm animal print tacky! :) I've got them all over
and under. They make me happy!
I edged my new roman shades in the den in leopard,
and seriously thinking of adding some animal print
in the kitchen too.
Joann

letmag,
I've yet to out grow my love of animal prints.
I've most likely had them longer than you're alive, I'm sure!
Both our LR & Family room are filled with them.

letmag- I have a couple of pics I will try to post. Maybe someone else will post you some pics as well.

Like cliff, I have an ottoman in my library covered in leopard print. No fringe, tho. And I have to laugh because one time I saw an ottoman like that with legs of horn in an antique shop. I wanted to buy it, but my friend made so much fun of it that I didn't. I wish I had now!

schoolhouse, that was cliff's grandfathers 100 year old plus chair, his grandfather made the matching horn ottoman

here is Max at my command station

living room chairs...

this is the ottomon for the brown chair

more tacky animal prints...

I made two of these triangle pillows...one for this chair and one for the sofa.

Joann I don't think you're animal print tacky. You have them in small accents spread aroud the room. I think you get tacky when you have them as wallpaper, bedspread, a rug and curtains, all in the same room. LOL Let's not forget a stuffed one on the bed also.

HIWTHI, on our bed, we have two giraffe pillows...even though we
don't have high ceilings.

O just have a throw:

I think animal prints are great! I love my orange zebra pillow--it brightens up my boring sofa and makes me smile when I look at it.

oceanana, we all have to start somewhere, I don't remember
how I got hooked on animal prints, it was so many moons ago.
I like the two little chickies on your coffee table.

memazz, that zebra would make me smile as well.
For me decorating is all about what makes me happy, and not what's in style.
I believe in decorating with what 'you'
love and treasure. It so much more fun living in a house
with so much of 'you' in the house.

Joann, LOL, when I wrote that I almost added, "you know, no stuffed giraffe's." Only because I love them and so do others. Very cute.

HIWTHI...LOL...

This is over my bed "first kiss"

I confess, I bought the print for my baby grandson...
When it arrived I just couldn't part with it.
Made the funky frame to fit between the two windows
over our bed.
:) Giraffe's are beyond cute.

Joann, thanks about the chickies. I may add more animal print in the future, dunno. I love your decor. Would love to see the rest of your master bedroom.

thanks oceanna,
I posted pic's of our master many times.
it's quite unsophisticated and a tad funky, as compared to
the beautiful masters posted on this forum.
But, it's cozy and friendly and has a lot
of 'us' in the room...It has an old family antique
wash stand at the foot of our bed. It was over 100
years old and very dark oak, so I spray painted it green
years ago (what was I thinking?)
Then we stripped it, and re-finished it to match our old
furniture, and used it for inspiration to make two
QS oak end tables. Do you remember the perfume cabinet we made?
We also made the perfume cabinet to match the end tables.
Like I said, it's funky, but it's uniquely 'us.'

If you want to laugh, I'm currently working on a design for
an lyre inspired end table, for the living room...I asked
Cliff, how much walnut do we have for the table?
He said, holding up two fingers -- "you know, you need
two husbands, the he put up another finger and said THREE,
three, you need three husbands!" LOL...Oh, what fun!

In keeping with the thread theme...
see the two giraffe pillows on the bed, also the stained glass in the windows --
man in the moon holding the teddy bear is another gift that we made for another grandson, again
I shamelessly kept it...

this is before we made the end tables.