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10 NOT TACKY WAYS TO USE ANIMAL PRINT IN YOUR HOME - Animal Print Decor Ideas
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Feb 18, 2025
🐆 10 Not Tacky Ways to Use Animal Print in Your Home 🐆 Animal print can be chic, sophisticated, and timeless—if used the right way! In this video, I’m sharing 10 stylish and non-tacky ways to incorporate animal prints into your decor. Whether you love leopard, zebra, or a subtle snakeskin texture, these tips will help you add just the right touch of wild elegance to your space. | CHAPTERS | 00:00 Intro 01:08 Types of Animal Print 01:55 Accent Furniture 04:01 Lamps & Lighting 05:45 Wallpaper 07:14 Pillows & Throws 08:48 Candles & Candle Jars 10:12 Wall Art 11:10 Vases & Bowls 12:03 Tabletop Accents 13:06 Rugs 15:12 Curtains 17:06 Outro
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hi it's lindsy Diane from Dian decor.com
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in this video we're going to talk all
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about animal print Decor specifically
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we're going to talk about 10 non-tacky
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ways to use animal print Decor animal
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print is a tricky thing because it's
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very bold and very iny face also there
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are some ethical implications about
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using the skins of animals to decorate
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for the purposes of this video I'm not
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suggesting that anyone's using any real
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hides you know we're just talking about
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pattern here pattern and color bold
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patterns and bold colors animal print
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Decor can look Chic and fun and stylish
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but it's also very easy to go overboard
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with it particularly if you're mixing
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too many different prints together or if
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you're using too much of a bold print in
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a small space so in this video I want to
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talk about 10 ways that you can use
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animal print Decor in your home and
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still stay on the side of chic
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sophistication let's start by talking
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about your different animal print
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options and then we're going to dive
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into the 10 ways that you can use animal
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print in a really non-tacky way so that
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you stay on the Chic and sophisticated
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end of things so the most popular prints
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and patterns that you're going to find
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easily accessible are going to to be
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like a cheetah print leopard zebra
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giraffe
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peacock snake skin or alligator skin
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those are the most commonly seen types
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of prints that are available for
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decorative purposes so now let's get
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into the 10 non-tacky ways to use animal
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print Decor number one is to use bar
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stools or other accent furniture
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with a print so instead of say using an
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entire sofa that's covered in leopard
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print that might be too much too much
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pattern instead go for just your uh
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upholstered bar stools or go for one
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accent chair or even an ottoman or foot
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stool that is covered in an animal print
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that's a great way to start to dabble in
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some fun prints into your space now if
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you are just experimenting with this
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look and you're not sure that you want
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to make this a permanent feature in your
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home go for a slip cover this is the
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fastest easiest least expensive way to
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experiment with this style cover
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something that you already have with
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this print and it's instantly removable
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you can undo it if you don't like it
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this is something that's easy to do just
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find the stretchy fitted slip covers
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they have them for everything you can
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find them for bar stools you can find
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them for armless chairs like your dining
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room chairs you can find them for Wing
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back chairs or other larger accent
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chairs you can find them of course for
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Ottomans and foot stools as well look
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for a print that you really love and
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find it in a slip cover first and then
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test it out in your home to see if it's
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something that's really going to work
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for you before you invest in a piece
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that's already made in that pattern
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again don't do all of your furniture
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just do accent pieces so if you're going
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to do maybe your bar stools at the
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kitchen just leave it at those so maybe
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three or four bar stools are covered in
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a cheetah print or if you're going to do
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an accent chair just do one arm chair in
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a living room or do a set of foot stools
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or poofs that would be a really great
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way to dabble in this print next up is
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lamps and lighting fixtures now the
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easiest way that you're going to be able
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to integrate animal print into your
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lighting is with either a lamp or a lamp
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shade these are readily available
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everywhere now when it comes to
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chandeliers or larger lighting fixtures
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it's going to be a little bit trickier
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they do have some chandeliers that come
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with their own little like individual
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mini lamp shades but if you want a
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larger light fixture that's really going
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to make a statement you may have to move
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into an animal print adjacent area and
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so by that I mean something that is
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still going to mimic the environment in
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which said animal might live so a jungle
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sort of themed item for lighting which
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you're going to find our tree
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chandeliers you're going to find
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chandeliers with um leaf
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um embossed sort of pieces on them so
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like arms or branches that have leaves
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embossed you're also going to find
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feathered chandeliers as well anything
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like this will meld really well in a
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room where you have other pieces that
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have animal prints so they're not
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exactly print but they are in the same
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family and so it will Mel together and
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give you a nice look that looks like it
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co Ates if you just want to use some
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side lamps that you already own go for
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the shades that's the easiest fastest
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option just swap out a lamp shade for a
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lamp that you already have and you're
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all set next up is animal print
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wallpaper now this is something that can
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be used to create a featured or an
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accent wall or it's a great way to
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decorate your bathroom particularly a
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small bath bathroom or a guest bathroom
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now when it comes to using this bold
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animal print I would use it on one wall
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I wouldn't use it on all walls or if
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you're going to use it on all walls use
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a chair rail system to sort of break up
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your wall so maybe you have a solid
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color at the bottom and then you have
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your print going along on the upper
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portion of your wall that would be okay
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um you definitely don't want to do
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animal print wallpaper and then also do
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animal print lamps and also do animal
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print hand towels that's too much so if
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you're going to go for the wallpaper
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that's going to be pretty bold on its
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own just stick with the wallpaper that's
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a more subtle way to go about it when
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you start adding an extra accessories or
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layering on more Decor to something
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that's already surrounding you visually
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it can be too much and it can end up on
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that tacky end so if you're going to go
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for wallpaper just do wallpaper by
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itself and don't go for anything else if
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you are doing wallpaper in a larger
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space like it's an accent wall in a home
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office then you may be able to sprinkle
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in one or two other patterns but keep
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them very small next up is pillows and
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throw blankets this is a great way to
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Jazz up a bedroom or your sofa and
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chairs in your living room again very
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simple very inexpensive get some pillow
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covers you don't have to invest in new
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pillows go ahead and get some pillow
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covers from Amazon that are in some fun
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prints you can find some in some nice
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like velvety peacock or you can find a
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zebra print or a cheetah print or a
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leopard print you're going to find uh
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pillow covers in just about any print
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that you want again you can go for that
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faux leather that's a snake skin or an
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alligator skin if you want as well um
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but go ahead and just sprinkle in the
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pillows and maybe a throw blanket with a
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nice pattern again if you want to just
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be sort of animal print adjacent you
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don't have to have something with a
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print you could have something that's a
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faux fur that still works well with this
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whole Motif without it carrying another
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large you know attention
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demanding uh pattern so instead you can
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go for something that's like maybe a
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faux chin Chilla and it's sort of got
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this gray and white hair to it or
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something that's got a a light uh cream
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base to it anything like that would work
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well paired with a bold animal print
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patterned pillow so consider pillows and
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throw blankets to decorate with animal
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print without going overboard next up is
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candles candlesticks candlestick holders
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and candle jars now these are all very
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easy tabletop top accents to spread
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around your home if you want to infuse
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some animal print into your spaces so
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you can use these on a dining room table
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You' use them on a bathroom counter
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they're small they pack a big Punch If
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you get a great pattern on a Candle jar
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or even have candle sticks that have a
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pretty print on them I've seen uh
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cheetah candlesticks and even tortoise
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shell candlesticks that's another option
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that didn't mention in the beginning
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tortoise shell is a great pattern to
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infuse in your home if you like animal
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print when it comes to candlestick
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holders you're going to have a harder
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time finding patterns they exist but
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they're not mainstream so you may have
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to go to places like Etsy to find them
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being handmade alternatively you can go
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for some nice brass candlestick holders
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that are a figurine that's more that's
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going to be something that's going to be
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easier to find so you can find little
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elephant figurine candlestick holders or
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leopard figurine candlestick holders
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that's a great way to again be a little
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bit sort of pattern adjacent and still
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get that feeling in your home picture
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frames and wall art are an easy way to
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get a bold animal print pattern into
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your room in a big way you can find
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animal print wall art at Wayfair or at
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Target or Walmart they're e easy finds
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and they're a great way to sprinkle in
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some animal print into your room without
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going to overboard again you don't want
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to pair it up with too many of these
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things but maybe one other thing so
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let's say you have the wall art that's
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animal print and in your dining room and
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then you also have maybe these like
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candlestick holders that are cheetah and
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you maybe have some candlesticks with a
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little pattern on them that's enough um
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I wouldn't then also do the chairs and
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also do the pillows and also do some of
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the other things that we're going to
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mention on the list that might be
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overboard but pick one or two things if
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you're going to do the wall art and that
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will help meld together the look and
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make it look really intentional next up
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are vases now animal print vases are
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abundant you can find them pretty much
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anywhere you're going to see a lot of
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leopard print a lot of zebra print a lot
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of tortoise shell sort of looks vases
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come in all different materials whether
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it's uh a GL a blown glass print or you
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may have just something that's wrapped a
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glass cylinder that's wrapped in a print
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you may have a um a plastic vessel a
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wood vessel a ceramic vessel that's been
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painted in a particular pattern there
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are lots of different options when it
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comes to vases and they're an easy way
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to decorate a tabletop again if you're
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looking to put a centerpiece on your
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dining room table or maybe your coffee
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table or your kitchen counter a vase is
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a great way to Splash in a little animal
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print into your space next up are
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tabletop accents so think about table
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runners place mats
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Chargers also just dining sets little
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bowls that have an animal print on them
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you may have coordinating utensils that
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have animal print on the handle there's
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lots in the dinner wear space that
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you're going to be able to find that has
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different animal print patterns you can
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have serving bowls with the big like
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salad tongs that have animal print on
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the ends of them things like this are
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just enough to Splash a little bit of
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Interest onto your table without going
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overboard it won't look tacky it doesn't
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matter if you have anything else that's
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animal print if you want to do a table
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runner and a couple of beautiful wood
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bowls with some you know a salad tongs
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or a salad fork and spoon that has some
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animal print handles on it it's going to
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look beautiful it's going to look Chic
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and sophisticated and it will not at all
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look tacky next up is rugs now rugs are
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a great way to Splash in color and
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pattern into your space especially if
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you have an otherwise neutral palette
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for your furniture so if let's say your
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living room has all cream Furniture you
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bought a set and you throw down a zebra
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print rug that's black and white and
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you've got those stripes on it it's
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going to look awesome it will look so so
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nice very chic very
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sophisticated um you can also opt to go
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for a faux hide this is something that's
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better for a smaller seating area just
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because of the organic shape of it so if
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you are you have a standard layout
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standard living room or your bedroom or
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something like that you might want to
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just stick with something rectangular
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but if you have a seating area that's
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maybe um maybe you have a patio you
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could go for a faux hiide there or maybe
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you have a little reading Nook or your
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home office where your furniture is in
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more of like a gathered around sort of
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um configuration and you can get away
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with having a more organic formed rug
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there go for it you won't find these to
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be particularly large because again it's
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supposed to be mimicking a hide which
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means it's going to mimic the size of
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the animal you're not going to see an 8
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by10 uh zebra print faux hiide you're
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just it's unlikely that you would see
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anything like that um if you did it
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would look very very fake and that
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actually would look tacky so if you want
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to go for a larger rug just go for like
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a faux print that's a regular
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rectangular size but if you want
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something that's accented or you just
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want to maybe even layer on your rug
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then you could go for something that's
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in a fauxy shape you might pay a little
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bit more for these depending upon the
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size but again this is a fun way to get
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some pattern into your space and to use
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that animal print decor and last but not
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least are curtains so whether we're
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talking about window treatments or
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you're talking about a bathroom curtain
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either one is a great way to use animal
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print Decor in your home without going
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overboard now when it comes to curtains
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on your windows and having multiple
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windows with multiple panels consider
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instead of using a fullon pattern so
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instead of being uh full cheetah print
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think about using a pattern that instead
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has an animal on it that is featuring
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that print so something that may have
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like branches and Vines and then also a
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a leopard that repeats something really
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fun thinking immediately of the Jungle
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collection from um Justina blakley and
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Target I just did the video on the
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celebrity home decor collabs but think
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about stuff like that that is a really
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fun pattern that maybe sort of nature or
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wild inspired you may find things that
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have animals on them that um really work
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very well instead of having to have
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multiple panels of a zebra print or
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multiple panels of a cheetah print that
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can be a little bit overwhelming if you
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have a lot of windows but if you say
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have a home office with one window or
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you have a small guest bedroom with one
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window it's perfectly fine to have that
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but if you're talking about a living
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room with five different windows and you
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want to go cheetah print on all of those
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windows that might be a little bit much
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so instead think about using a pattern
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that instead has an animal on it within
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the print instead of the print being the
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entire um pattern if that makes
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sense that's it for this video I hope
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you found it helpful those are 10
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non-tacky ways to use animal print Decor
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