How to Decorate Your Lawn with Pink Flamingos

Plastic pink flamingos are very tacky but also very cool. It is one of those lawn ornaments that are very much associated with American iconic kitsch. The pink flamingo has been around about sixty years and ever since they were invented there has always been debate about whether or not they were eyesores.

Pink Flamingos were originally made by a company called Union Products that started making them in 1946. It was part of their “Plastics for the Lawn” series. The company did not just make flamingos. They also made ducks, dogs and frogs. These first flamingos were not three dimensional. They were more like “signs” with flamingos painted on them.

In 1956 a company in Massachusetts called the Leominster hired a designer named Don Featherstone who figured out how to make the figurines into three dimensional free standing sculptures. The flamingos were based on figures found in photos in National Geographic. The original legs were wooden but when they proved to be too expensive they were replaced by metal legs. They were very popular ornaments in the 1950s and today, whether fixed in your garden or on your wall as an object of art, they are considered to be part of retro-chic.

One of characteristics of the pink flamingo is that it is hot pink. Lurid colors were popular in the fifties but there was a reaction against plastics and false things in the sixties that made the pink flamingos less popular.

Decorating with them me simple and nowadays they are easy to get through mail order and in stores. If you want an authentic Flamingo buy one that has Don Featherstone’s signature impressed under the tail. A true pink flamingo has a yellow beak with a black tip and authentic flamingo sets are sold in twos. The pair should include one with a long neck and one with a shorter neck. The legs should be wire. If you are buying a single flamingo or one with an orange beak or wooden leg you are not buying the official antique.

When it comes to Pink Flamingos just two will do. However quite a unique effect can be created by decorating your yard with an entire flock of them. You can also put them on your condo or apartment balcony. Pink flamingos also make a humorous statement at the office.

Some people like to dress up their pink Flamingos for the season. They dress them up in Santa Suits and also give them Reindeer Horns.

How to Decorate With Lampe Berger Pure Dreams Freshness Scents

The Lampe Berger Pure Dreams makes lines of scents that are so designer, you will want to build whole rooms around their complex aromas.

One of the masterpieces of the Pure Dreams line is called Fresh Linen. This is synthetic scent that smells like lavender, cotton and Savon de Marseille soap. It suits very white, contemporary condo like decors and also very rustic, shabby chic or cottage style decors as well.

Another great scent to build a minimalist décor that would look great in a big expansive condo is Cotton Dreams. The Lampe Berger Cotton Dreams scent smells of Marseille soap and bergamot and then is mixed with notes of lavender and pine. This is also a scent with a sharpness to it that suits masculine styles of décor. It also suits shabby chic styles and rustic cottage decors.

You can also recreate the smell of a Finnish sauna with the fresh wood scent created by the aromatics in Sauna Ceremony. Sauna ceremony suits all Northern European type designs including rooms that are decorated in nothing but IKEA shelves, IKEA rugs and futons. It is also a good scent to have going in a basement or in a particularly musky bathroom. Sauna Ceremony also belongs in any room in your house that is remotely spa-like in character.

Zest of Verbana is another esigner smell that combines that fresh lemon smell with the aroma of Verbena. Verbana is a powdery, spicy lemony scent that takes well to cottage décor, rustic décor and also South of France style shabby chic.
If you want a healthy smelling scent that is very contemporary and would make the largest of rooms in a condo smell cozy and like they have been lived in is Green Chai. This scent is made with bergamot , tea leaves, California grapefruit, tarragon, pink pepper, moss and musk. It also suits Asian decors as there are a lot of Asian spices in it’s mixture.

Every décor suits the smell of Fresh Eucalptus which combines the stimulating power of eucalyptus, lavender, rosemary mint, eviler and white musk. It especially suits a Victorian style of décor or a cozy South of France type room. This is also one of the best scents to light for a sick room as all of the herbs in it have air cleaning properties that help enhance the air cleaning properties of the pharmaceutical lamp known as Bergere.

How to Decorate With Lampe Berger Dreams of Exploration Scents

Decorating to suit a beautiful scent is fast becoming a fad and if you are short on ideas then just burn one of the designer scents that are associated with Lampe Berger to become inspired. Lampe Berger makes a wonderful series called Dreams of Exploration that really do make one think of certain decors.

The Sweet Pear scent smells exactly baked pears coming out of the oven. It smells like pears, vanilla and cinnamon. This is a very seductive scent that is also a bit maternal. It suits a décor that is rustic, cozy and very domestic. It is also a very eighties type of aroma.

Another gourmand fragrance is called New Orleans. This is a smell that contains many fruit cents, cinnamon and vanilla. It has a rich, lush smell that suits heavy French decors with velvets, brocades, tassels and big old couches.

Crème Caramel is a scent that is also very nineties. It is also supposed to be one of the most seductive scents in the world and it is featured heavily in the Dreams of Exploraiton Scents. This type of smell goes well in a bedroom. It also suits antique and rustic decors as well as Victorian and Laura Ashlee type set.ups. Although it is a very sweet motherly smell it is not so sweet that it cannot be used to perfume the living quarters of a male.

Orange Cinnamon is an oriental scent. It is also sometimes associated with the Caribbean because oranges poked with cloves or cinnamon are part of a magic voodoo protection spell to ward off evil. In this particular scent you get the blend of orange and cinnamon smoothed over with touches of white musk, amber and sandalwood. The scent suits very old homes or homes with a bit of Cuban or Caribbean flair. This scent also goes very well with the deep red woods, golds and blacks that are associated Asian décor as both oranges and cinnamon are very Chinese in flair.

The Gingerbread scent in this line is very complex and a little sexier than the gingerbread smell fro Grandma’s kitchen. The fragrance smells like liquorices, rum orange peel, cinnamon, cloves, ginger, honey and vanilla. Although it smells rustic, this heavy scent would go well in very girly decors that are fifties and forties in style. It also suits rooms that are done up in Goth style too.

How to Decorate With Lampe Berger Dreams of Exploration Scents

One way to decorate that is fresh, new and interesting is by scent! The perfumed oil that is burnt in a Lampe Berger permeates every room and many have very distinctive scents that are so strong that they become part of the décor.

For instance, Lampe Berger puts out a collection called Dreams of Exploration which refers to different cultures on the planet. It follows that you could also decorate a room to suit the scent burnt in a beautiful matching Lampe Berger bottle.

For instance Terre Masai is a fragrance that is an excursion to Kenya. This smells like saffron, star anise, coffee, licorice, jasmine, vanilla, amber and patchouli. This scent would look wonderful in a room decorated with pillows and carpets in animal pelt patterns that is augmented by neo-primitive art and furniture made out of African woods.

The Springs of Mekong is a mix of lotus flowers with notes of bamboo (shiso which smells a bit like anise), cucumber, white cedar, iris and mint. The scent is reminiscent of Thailand and goes well with a spare Buddhist décor. It is a good scent to have burning with a small fountain burbling in the room or maybe a statue of a Buddha. Wicker furniture and grass mats suit this scent best.

Another interesting scent in the Lampe Berger Dreams of Exploration line is Journey to Bahia. This homage to Brazil contains notes of caramel, star anise, lime, amber and vanilla centered around a powerful notes of black coffee, leather and patchouli. This is the type of scent that is perfect for a home office, particularly one decorated with old artifacts and rich brown woods.

A Winter in Russian in another exotic Lampes Bergere scent that combines icy freshness with warmth. It contains cinnamon, cedar, juniper, leather incense and amber. This is a nice set for a home that is decorated with a rustic Slavic look. A winter cottage or chalet décor compliments this beautiful scent.

Polynesian Dream suits a spare Tikki South Pacific décor with bright fabrics and wicker furniture. This scent smells mainly of orange and it has a touch of tiare flower, coco , vanilla and almond. It is a simple scent that is also great for a child’s room.

Echappee a Capri suits the white and baby blue décor associated with the décor of Greece. This fragrance contains bergamot, jasmine, peony, lotus, cedar patchouli and white musk. It suits an old stone house, a cottage or a breezy contemporary condominium with a big view of water.

Even More Ways to Decorate with the Lampe Berger Collection

One the interesting things about the Lampe Berger collection of designer lamps is that they come in a solid ceramic style known as The Twilights. You could build entire rooms of Asian décor around the black ceramic boat style and the Croco style which are dark black glass. It also does not get anymore classic than the Black Generous style which looks like an opaque package for men’s cologne. The company also makes a pyramid shape, a milk jar shape, two black cubes and a grey and a black bingo ball shaped lampe in dark black. These go with any décor. If you like primitive art or have a décor that is more tropical or South Pacific in flair then you might like the porcelain and crackle enamel OGO which features an abstract design of two faces. This line also includes an iridescent silver Bingo ball shape and a pewter colored shape. The good thing about this line is that it is also is very masculine and suits most seventies styles of lampshades that are silver and round.

The company also makes a series of very whimsical lampes based on patterns. It makes an old style animal print lampe that has a picture of a hummingbird on it. This almost looks like an old porcelain egg coddler from the Victorian era. S similar is a little beveled square lamp that depicts illustrations of the four seasons. This style of Bergere goes well with rustic, cottage and country styles as well as Edwardian and fifties décor.

The company also makes a Lanvin bottle shaped amphora that has the illustration of a gold crown imprinted on black that would look good in a slutty boudoir.

Lampe Aphore has also made some incredibly clever Art Editions of it’s lamps. Lamp Fifi is a Russian egg styled lamp that opens up to reveal a gold monkey inside. It is a round blue ball with another circus monkey serving as the handle. The vent is made out of gold and looks like a canopy of stars.

The company also makes one made of Lalique ice crystal. It is egg shaped with tear drop shaped designs on it’s side. This shiny old-fashioned egg looks like a Victorian or Depression era paperweight.

Another wonderful lamp, that is very fabulous fifties in s style is called Planete. This is a silver ball in the shape of Saturn that has star shaped vents all over it.

All of the above are gorgeous curious that would look good anywhere in any contemporary home.. They are so beautiful that it many people have been tempted to make the gorgeous little lampes the center of their decorating efforts.