How to Decorate a Room in a Gone With the Wind Theme

Hang dark-green velvet drapes with golden tassels around large windows. Select lace curtains or interior shutters for smaller windows.

Decorate the walls with floral wallpaper or paint them robin egg blue. Mount chair rail and dark wainscoting on the lower one-third of the walls. Install brass handles on doors; frame the doors with white-dentil molding.

Stain the floors a deep, rich shade of brown or install red carpeting. Lay large Persian rugs on wood floors.

Brighten the space with electrified-kerosene lighting, custard-glass lamps, crystal chandeliers and wall sconces with orange-glass shades. Place silver candlesticks with beeswax candles on mantels and tables.

Decorate bedrooms with four-poster beds and chenille or satin bedspreads. Scarlett O’Hara opted for a dusty-rose silk bedspread in the master bedroom of her Atlanta home.

Brush black paint on tables; highlight the corners and edges with gold-metallic paint. Paint china cabinets with a turquoise glaze and distress the edges.

Furnish the room with Victorian chairs and tufted settees. The sofas should have traditional style, walnut frames and blue or red upholstery.

Adorn walls with gilded mirrors, ornate shelves and wooden clocks with pendulums. Hang small portraits of ancestors up the staircase, and install one large, gold-framed portrait above the mantel.

Accessorize the space with live ferns, water pitchers, silver tea service and lace doilies. In their Atlanta home, Rhett and Scarlett displayed ornate vases, small Roman statues and a globe on a floor stand.