Cute Maroon & Tan Room Ideas

Walls

• Paint walls tan, and apply a vinyl wallpaper border with maroon flowers to blend the tan and maroon colors. To make the design slightly quirky, press vinyl wall appliques to the wall with oversize maroon flowers such as mums or roses. Bring this theme into the rest of the room with tan vases filled with the same flowers on the wall decoration. Tie a maroon ribbon around each of the vases to enhance the effect.

Bears

• For a child's bedroom, decorate the room with tan teddy bears, and accent the bears with maroon bows around their necks. Heidi Tyline King in "Creative Homeowner: Design Ideas for Home Decorating" shows a design for a child's bedroom with tan walls and maroon stars hanging high on the wall. Halfway down the wall, a wallpaper border of teddy bears circles the room. The bed features dark blue, maroon and tan bedding to resemble darker hues of the American flag.

French Town Mural

• Cover a wall with a painted mural of a townscape with shops in a French décor style with tan stucco finish on the buildings and maroon curtains in the fake building windows, such as the mural seen in Eileen Cannon Paulin's "Decorating for the First Time." A professional artist can be hired to paint the mural or to apply a large wall-size wallpaper mural. Enhance the French town appearance with a wrought-iron cafe table and chairs next to the mural. Set tan baskets full of maroon flowers to bring the tan and maroon colors out of the mural and incorporate them into the room.

Fire and Earth

• According to feng shui principles, as outlined by Connie Spruill in "Feng Shui with What You Have," brown shades represent calming earth and reds represent invigorating fire. The authors of that book recommend a tan carpet with dark cranberry red (maroon) walls. Use these basic ideas to create a fire and earth decorating theme for a room with maroon and tan. Place maroon pillar candles on table surfaces in dishes of tan-colored sand, or paint the mantle of a brick fireplace tan and color the brick maroon with paint.