Rustic Bear Home Decor

Unbearably Lush Living Space

• Bear habitats are forests and wilderness areas, so an appropriate color for the walls and carpeting in your living room are a variety of natural browns and greens. Paint your walls a woodsy, rustic shade of light tan, and on one wall hang a wallpaper mural that suggests a forest habitat. Install a thick brown carpet reminiscent of a bear's coat, and use lodge-style furnishings to achieve the ultimate rustic decor. Bear-embellished pillows or whimsical bear beanbag chairs covered with actual bear hide turns your ho-hum living room into an enchanting living space.

Hibernate in Style

• Your hibernation chamber is meant to soothe, calm and provide a respite from the day's cares, so carry forward the idea of a forest when you redesign your bedroom to recreate a cozy bear's hideaway. Instead of a headboard, collect fallen tree branches, strip and sand them and fasten them to the wall behind your bed so you sleep beneath the branches. Attach Rocky Mountain Bear Sconces to the walls so there's light for bedside reading, and throw a woodsy quilt over the bed. Faux bearskin rugs on either side of the bed make adorable finishing touches as will a fun collection of plush bears ready to occupy the bed when you're not in it.

More Than an Outhouse

• From shower curtain to wall art, bathroom items designed to showcase bears are everywhere these days. Get your paws on a Black Bear Lodge shower curtain, find a washable bearskin rug for the floor and accessorize the room with practical touches, such as toothbrush holders, drinking cups and jars embellished with painted bear heads. Look for unusual extras, like a toilet brush in a brown bear holder and an outhouse that holds rolls of extra toilet paper on websites specializing in bear-themed household accessories. Don't forget the pine-scented room deodorizing spray.

Just for Bear Cubs

• Go ahead and spring for the gigantic, one-of-a-kind Walter van Beidendonck Bear Furniture pieces enchanting fans across Europe. Few things you've ever seen come close to the giant bear heads that open to reveal kid-size dressers and wardrobes. Assuming you love the idea of these artsy pieces but prefer not to liquidate your assets to get them, rustic lodge-look bunk bed sets with canvas tent tops and matching dressers look just as cute. Display your child's bear collection on rustic, distressed wall shelves, and if you hang a humane trophy replicating a bear's head on the wall, your child will drag scores of friends to his room to show off the den you've fashioned just for him.