5 Reasons You Need Throw pillows

Throwpillows by pillowtalks on bellafricana marketolace

Throw pillows are typically used on sofas or armchairs, but they are also frequently used on beds, day beds, and floors. A throw pillow serves as an aesthetic as well as a functional purpose. Decorative pillows are frequently used to tie in color accents within a room, often drawing on drapes, walls, or area rugs. They can also be used to create a more casual atmosphere by appearing to be thrown onto a piece of furniture. Throw pillows can provide back, neck, and head support from a functional standpoint.

Throw pillows, despite their small size, can have a significant impact on any room they are placed in. If you’re unfamiliar with these decorative pillows, you’re probably wondering what makes them superior to the average pillow you sleep on. Let me run you through 5 reasons you need a throwpillow for your space.

  1. Decorative piece

Lot of throw pillow designers have been able to embellish their throw pillows with lovely and captivating stories and crafts. No more would you have boring pieces of pillows thrown around the house. Throw pillows now serve as accent pieces to several spaces. This throw pillow crafted by bosh designs tells a simple story of the western part of Nigeria, precisely Lagos, as it captures captivating transportation system predominant around that environment. if you need your home to tell story. Then this bosh designs throw pillow is a good for.

Bosh Designs
Danfo throw pillow
2. Create Unison

Throw pillows are best ways of creating unison in our spaces. Most throw pillows match up with the drapes, stools, sofas and even wall decorations. This creates beauty and glamour in our spaces and catch easily appeal to the eye. This pillow is beautifully decorated by Apoti Lagos and it adds extra elegance to our spaces.

Adinkra Footstools with Twin Throw Pillows

3. Make A Statement

Decorative throw pillows can make a dramatic statement in some cases. For instance, the pillows can contrast with the sofa or couch and they can bring a touch of color to this part of the room while also making the whole space look and feel more comfortable. Throw pillows create illusions and flamboyance around the home. It can never be looked away. Say no to boring spaces, add some taste and class with these pillow talk pillows.

My Africa Throw Pillow by Pillow Talk 9ja sold on Bellafricana Shop and Marketplace

Also Read: 5 Elegant African-Inspired Home Decor

4. Comfort

Pillows, first and foremost, should provide comfort to you and any guests you have over. Setting up the pillows on a chair, couch, or bed allows you to relax in a comfortable position. Anyone who has slept on the couch without a pillow knows how uncomfortable it can be. You can avoid falling asleep on the couch and waking up with a kink in your neck if you have a throw pillow nearby.

Throw pillows also make long periods of sitting on the couch or watching TV more comfortable. Using a pillow while doing any number of activities on the couch, such as playing video games and watching TV, will help you avoid putting unhealthy substances on your body. This is also very useful for long travels as well.

Neck pillows by pillow talks on bellafricana marketplace

5. Visual Attraction

Throw pillows can be a huge help when it comes to prioritizing the visual appeal of a room. This is because throw pillows are a great way to match the color, texture, or style of nearby accessories like drapes. Extending factors like color and texture across multiple areas of a room can help you tie everything together visually. Of course, you don’t want to repeat those elements too often, which is why using them in small touches like throw pillows is ideal.

The advantages of using throw pillows boil down to their ability to significantly improve the comfort and visual appeal of a room, provided you take the time to purchase the right set for the room you’re designing. Throw pillows can be more than just an amenity with the right attention to detail—they can be an important part of your interior design. Bosh designs always does it real good in creating visualling appealing pillows.

Bosh Deigns African Drum throw Pillow sold on bellafricana shop and marketplace

Conclusion

Every time you think of adding some asthestics to your home consider adding a touch of throw pillow. And if you are wondering where to shop for your beautiful, click here to get your beautiful throwpillows.

5 Elegant African-Inspired Home Decor

My Africa Throw Pillow by Pillow Talk 9ja sold on Bellafricana Shop and Marketplace

Your home should have a touch of elegant African-inspired home decor telling the story of who you are and be a collection of what you love. It’s no doubt that public areas like hotels, conference centres, and recreational areas. This helps to bring out more sparkle, flamboyance, and embellishments to the space.

The beauty of African decorative items is the combination of vivid colors combined with earth tone and vibrant colors like green, yellow, and red to resonate beauty in a way and add glow to a space. 

Adopting these 5 Elegant African-inspired home decorative pieces for your space will transform your space

  1. AFRICAN PRINT THROW PILLOWS:

African print throw pillows are very catchy and beautiful to stare at. It serves as a decor accent to a space; bedroom, sitting room, office spaces, and corners. African throw pillows makers tell stories, using our rustic lifestyles, our commonness, and what makes us unique as Africans. Apoti LagosBosh Designs are design and craft companies that manufacture artistic throw pillows, with beautiful colors, patterns, and craft designs to add feelings and emotions to your space.

Bosh Designs
Danfo throw pillow
Bosh Deigns African Drum throw Pillow sold on bellafricana shop and marketplace
ilu gangan throw pillow

1B. AFRICAN INSPIRED PILLOWS

Pillow Talk 9ja is another creative pillow design maker that uses Nigerian tales to craft elegant pictorial designs and messages. The brand uses relatable Nigerian themes such as festive events, Lagos lifestyle, folklore, and African traditional experiences. It also crafts personalized messages and seasonal/festive celebrations.

My Africa Throw Pillow by Pillow Talk 9ja sold on Bellafricana Shop and Marketplace

2. AFRICAN ARTS AND PAINTINGS

Art pieces are placed in strategic positions like accent walls, shelves, sidewalls, corner spaces to give details to a space. Ronke Scott, an artist has an interesting way of telling African cultural and traditional stories through her edifice. From capturing local and rustic to creating people’s experiences and realities, as well as emotions and doctrines. One of her great pieces of work, “psyche of a black woman”, examines the great features African women possess, strength, struggles, challenges, resilience, beauty, creativity, and uniqueness. Let your home always tell a story.

Ronke Scott Gallery Artworks MINIATURES sold on Bellafricana Marketplace
Ronke Scott Gallery Artworks MINIATURES sold on Bellafricana Marketplace

 

  3. WOODEN HYACINTH LAMPS

Wooden hyacinths products are handcrafted fibers (otherwise known as waste or environmental menace). Waste products are recycled into beautiful furniture pieces. Adding beautiful wooden items can make your space look extra, on the edge and fabulous. MitiMeth creates unique and beautifully handmade hyacinth using fibers to produce crafts for dining chairs, rugs, tissue boxes, storage baskets, and a lot more. Mitimeth does fabulous items using waste fibres which are repurposed into usuable items for the home. 
Lamp hyacinth sold by mitimeth on bellafricana marketplace, African inspired home decor
Lamp hyacinth sold by mitimeth on bellafricana marketplace
 
  Also read: Top 6 Afrocentric Gift Ideas

4. AFRICAN THEMED PERFUME DIFFUSER/ SCENTED CANDLES

Do you know perfume diffusers have a lot to do with your wellbeing? There is nothing better than your favorite scent welcoming you as you walk into a space. Diffusers/candles not only smell great but look great too. They are stylish additions to window sills and act as great minimal centerpieces to tables. Have your house tenderly and nicely scented with Abela World scents perfumery. Abela world scents can last for up to 12 weeks, thereby causing a long-lasting scent in your space. 

Perfume/Oil diffuser sold by Abela scents on Bellafricana marketplace
Perfume/Oil diffuser sold by Abela scents on Bellafricana marketplace
Scented candles sold by Abela scents on bellafricana marketplace, African inspired home decor
Scented candles sold by Abela scents on bellafricana marketplace

5) TISSUE BOX

This tissue box is a very excellent way of having your space free of littered tissues. This Ankara covering helps protect it from getting destroyed easily and stylish. Mitimeth  helps repurpose waste from natural fibres into good decorative pieces suitable for any space. Adding finesse to your space with this great item will not only improve the glow of your space but also adds that edge and color harmony to any vicinity. its infusion of nice ankara material and fibre makes it more catchy and elegant to any space.

 

African inspired home decor

 CONCLUSION

Afrocentric designs add elements of personality, charm, edge, uniqueness, emotions, warmth and inspiration. This fusion of bright and vibrant colors sends great appeal and sentiment to any environment. To order for your beautiful home decoration, click here

Top 6 Afrocentric Gift Ideas

Ronke Scott Gallery Artworks MINIATURES sold on Bellafricana Marketplace

Have you been looking for Afrocentric gift ideas? With the global craving for African things worldwide, this is a market you need to delve into as various brands are looking for ways to incorporate African ideas into their gift items.

Have you ever visited a recreational center and seen the lovely display of Afrocentric decorations? or have you seen African souvenirs such as Ankara-covered books, Ankara gift bags, African-themed mugs, and so on?

If you love almost anything with an Afrocentric twist to it, then this article is for you to choose from a plethora of beautifully crafted handmade African products.

Here are 6 Afrocentric gift ideas for you:

  1. ADIRE FABRICS

There is a specific type of African print known as ‘Adire’, and Asologe has made it their business to deliver standard prints. Like ‘Alice in Wonderland, get lost in their store. Michelle Obama even had a dress sewn in this adire piece, and the good thing about it is that.. it is not limited to just dresses alone, but also; bags, scarves, shoes, etc.

      2. ART WORKS

Gift items in form of wall paintings are the best way to convey thoughts and emotions. telling stories using African histories and ideas. Best gift ideas for a wonderful family or a special person. Ronke Scott gallery is your go to for all things artworks.

      3. HANDMADE JEWELRY

I am yet to see someone who isn’t in love with jewelry, oh really, there are tons of people who love sleeky and simple styled jewelry, so don’t think you are out of place when making this selection.

Zivanora, stylish jewelry, and accessory brand has done justice to this particular work of art, from melting irons to artistic and aesthestic aesthetic design finishing. If you intend to win a woman’s heart, trust me, it will most likely end with a ‘yes’ to this beauty.

      4. HANDMADE QUIRKY CARDS

Sometimes the best expression for joy and love is best expressed through a personalised card and can be gifted to that special relative, family member, lover, spouse, good boss, great colleague, and significant other in your life. This Not Just Pulp quirky cards are handmade and careful done with some Nigerian humor You wanna make memories, try this one

Mother Koboko card by Not Just Pulp sold on Bellafricana MarketplaceJollof Happy Birthday Card by Not Just Pulp sold on Bellafricana Marketplace Dad Multi card by not just pulp sold on Bellafricana marketplace

      5. NATURAL BODY PRODUCTS FOR MEN OR WOMEN IN A GIFT BOX

We all deserve good skin therapy, well most times you can surprise your male or female spouse, friend, or any special human in your life, with a good spa session, but if that may cost too much, well this brings us to modara naturals skincare products, suitable for all skin types, nourishes and brightens any skin condition

Modara Naturals Body care gift box

6. AFRICAN PERFUME DIFFUSERS

Why do you think perfume diffusers will make great gifting ideas, Yes am asking you again, why perfume diffusers, oh well, good scent conveys emotions and feelings. Let the scent of this exotic perfume diffuser from a delectable perfumery and candle scent brand, Abela Scents do the talking for you. Did I hear you say, life made easy. yeah, you are so right.

 

All these amazing Afrocentric gift ideas are ideal packages to send out to loved ones, and perfect for all genders and people of all ages. Are you still looking for more options, click here to shop for tons of other wonderful ideas with African embellishments that you will love.

 

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