Christian Stress Management: African Home Decor Ideas

Decorating your home with these African home decor ideas is a great way to prepare for or to spend Africa Day which is celebrated on May 25. This is because it reminds you of your rich heritage and allows you to enjoy it in your home.

Decorating your home can help you relieve stress since it allows your brain to switch off from thinking about your stressors and focus on the task at hand of creating a more pleasant living space.

Decorating your home becomes an even more effective stress management technique when you do it with a non-judgmental attitude. This is because it adds fun to your life and gives you something pleasant to look forward to at the end of a stressful work week.

Since decorating also gives you an outlet to express yourself and let your creative juices to flow, it is a great complementary hobby especially if you work at a strict, stressful job.

Decorating your home is also a great stress-relieving hobby if you like doing something constructive during your down-time instead of just sitting around. This is because finishing decorating a room gives you a sense of accomplishment and this improves your emotional well being since it leaves you feeling fulfilled.

Studies have shown that persons who engaged in activities that they enjoyed during their leisure time had lower blood pressure, lower levels of the stress hormone cortisol and lower levels of depression. These persons were also noted to have higher levels of positive psychosomatic states. Therefore make decorating your living space one of your stress relieving hobbies.

Even if you have never decorated before, you can still reap these benefits of decorating by reading a book like African Home Decor since it teaches you the basics of decorating and leaves you with enough room to create a room that is pleasing to all your senses.

African Home Decor Accents

African home decor accents that you can use to decorate your home include canvas art, photo prints, mats and throw pillows or cushions like the following:

Black and brown bold print throw pillow

Sisal print throw pillow

Mud cloth print throw pillow

Fort Jesus, Mombasa, Kenya throw pillow

Cheetah print throw pillow

Fort Jesus, Mombasa, Kenya throw pillow

Kikoy print throw pillow

Masai print throw pillow

Masai print bath mat

Leopard canvas art

African wedding pots photo print

You can also use red home decor accents like the following to decorate your home with an African home decor theme:

African Home Decor Book

African Home Décor 2^nd Edition

uses color pictures and clear explanations to teach you how to decorate with an African theme.

African Home Décor 2^nd Edition

also illustrates 5 key interior decorating principles so that you can choose home décor accents that are appropriate for an African home decoration theme.

African Home Décor 2^nd Edition

also contains HTML colors codes, RGB codes and color images to help you design your African home décor theme digitally.