Being inspired by peacocks can take form in many different ways in the home. You can go literal and use feathers or feather prints or you can simply take inspiration from the multitude of colors found in the beautiful bird.
I prefer the literal approach, why not go for the gusto? There's something so elegant and absolutely beautiful about Megan Mullally’s peacock bathroom. It's so successful because it takes inspiration from the shape but eliminates the color palette, resulting in a modern room. Here's more inspiring ways to use peacock inspiration in your home:
• Apartment Therapy | All Things Peacock
• Apartment Therapy | Fine Feathers: A Brief History of the Peacock as Decoration
• Apartment Therapy | Emerging Trend? Peacock Fireplace Screens
• Elle Decor | Megan Mullally’s Hollywood Haven
• Lost At E Minor | The Emerald Room
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Thank you for this post! I adore peacocks :)
Peacock inspiration? Yes.
A whole peacock in my living room? No.
The fireplace screen is divine!!
I love peacocks too much to have a dead one (obviously) or a live one inside. They're basically farm birds that need room to roam and roost on low roofs!
No to the whole peacock...tacky
The stuffed peacocks are pretty weird, but I do love the velvet footstools in the first picture quite a lot!
Peacocks are inspiringly beautiful. I like their colors a lot.
My parents had that same fireplace screen in our house for years! I loved it as a kid.
I LOVE the first picture!
OMG I love peacocks. I am ordering the perfect print from art.com soon!
i did a search on my flickr stream: http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=peacock&w=63122153%40N00
matthew williamson's bathroom (and his wallpaper design) are aces for peacock. also, that print he uses in his clothes, rugs and personal bedding.
Peacock inspiration? Yes.
A whole peacock in my living room? HELL YES!!
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A whole peacock in my living room would look crazy, but I think they look cool in the pictures above.
No to taxidermy of anything, but YES to peacocks as a motif. My holiday tree is full of them! And I am keeping an eye out for a nice reproduction of a gorgeous Chinese screen I saw with blue and white peacocks depicted...
The original peacock room by Whistler, completed in 1877: http://www.asia.si.edu/exhibitions/online/peacock/default.htm
Ha ha, no to stuffed peacocks for me. And as beautiful as they are, no to a live one as well. Have you ever heard what they sound like? Eerie.
But the feathers, and colour, YES!
Um, you already did an article almost exactly like this, Apartment Therapy. About a month ago:
http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/dc/all-things-peacock-round-up--131620
We have a gorgeous purple & cream colored peacock rug in our living room and I am obsessed with it. http://gallery.me.com/kellerowski#100024/IMG_0011&bgcolor=black
But the wallpaper in that bathroom photo above? TO DIE FOR!
Waaaaah! Number 3 reminds me of the peacock wall hanging I found at an antique store and passed up because I was in the process of moving, and I lost it forever!! I was going to put it in my built-ins fireplace screen style, after I spray painted it glossy white. Sad.
Also, I love peacock-inspired stuff. It reminds me of Flannery O'Connor.
The color is OK to me, but the whole "peacock decor" stuff is awful. Having a stuffed peacock in one's home is revolting.
Having peacock feathers in the home is supposed to be bad luck. Am I the only person who's heard this?
yay! one of my 2 favorite birds! I have always used the colors of peacocks as inspiration!
@MRSkeller—Where'd you get the rug? Very cool.
Good gosh, I love those tufted ottomans in #1.
@garrulous, there's a faded superstition that a peacock's eerie cry means that some person's death is imminent. I hadn't heard about peacock feathers. I ignore the superstitions regarding luck and peacocks, shells, elephants, frogs, ad infinitum.
PS Crows, cats, snakes...
Peacocks sound like little children being murdered in the night.
I'll stick with my three-legged frog for now though thanks.
I tried talking my hubs into letting me get a taxidermied peacock on Carigslist. He vetoed. I was so hoping to have our living room look like that first photo...
where can i get a stuffed peacock?
Confirmation that there was a superstition that a peacock's cry foretold some person's imminent death:
http://books.google.com/books?id=w9Krm_BikEAC&pg=PA58&lpg=PA58&dq=peacock+superstition&source=bl&ots=G9vR64Ydg6&sig=kL5Z4ZaUVJ8euWpUh1dwj-u4Hrc&hl=en&ei=UAIjTcChNoSBlAeUg4CsDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10&ved=0CFUQ6AEwCTge#v=onepage&q=peacock%20superstition&f=false