Decorating Medieval Style

The dream of living in a medieval castle is shared by many. Sometimes its because these people love the folk lore or the romantic feeling living in a castle can bring. Being surrounded by a large array of medieval items can be even further motivation for a person to want to live in a medieval castle. Sadly, buying a medieval castle is not possible for most people.

Luckily though, just because these people cannot afford to live in a castle, does not mean they can't have some medieval items in their own home. I wrote this article to tell folks how to make their houses seem more like the medieval castles they long to live in. We'll go over more than just how to buy knight armor.

The best way to start is to choose a room that you want to make more medieval. Starting with one room is a great way to get a feel for redecorating. Its also a nice way to change your home up without putting an incredible amount of money up first.

Once you've chosen the room you want to make over, you'll need to start thinking of medieval items to place in it. Windows, walls, and floors, are a great place to start. This will make the room look like a medieval room rather than a regular room with some medieval things in it. Buy a few sets of medieval curtains to put in front of your windows. Then put a nice medieval rug on the floor. This works best if you have a nice hardwood floor to place it on.

Following this, begin to make your walls medieval. Try putting a nice medieval tapestry on a windowless wall. After that you can put some smaller paintings to fill in other areas of the wall. Think of some personal touches you can add to the walls to make them truly yours.

You could get some armors, shields and helmets to display around the room. These could be bought online at places like Armor Venue. You'll find that armor stands work great at keeping your armors displayed nicely. Table tops, shelves, and nice helmet stands are fantastic for displaying helmets.

Many people even decide to buy some medieval weapons to display. If your trying to make the room look really authentic, you could display these in a weapons rack. Otherwise you could mount them on a wall or place them within a glass case. If you have children going in and out of the room, the glass case is probably the safest place for the weapons.