I love, love, love peacocks. Well, not so much that the birds as their feathers. As far as Earth’s creatures proceed, peacocks are particularly blessed. They are vibrant, iridescent, ornately patterned, delicate, brash, exotic and lucky.
Into the Greeks and early Christians, peacocks represented rebirth, renewal and immortality, and artists since the dawn of time are attracted to them to get their imperial beauty. Peacocks are a announcement unto themselves.
So it’s no surprise that they pop up in modern design all of the time. Occasionally they are there in a clear manner — on a cushion or a pattern — and occasionally their influence is much more subtle.
Here are 18 ways to incorporate the king of birds in your home.
There is no obvious tail feather in sight, but everything about this room, from the colors to the textures into the way in which the art is hung, reminds me of a peacock.
The rug, the colors, the cushion: contemporary peacock all the way.
The peacock ornaments lend this blue and white Christmas tree a bit of exotic elegance.
Jamie Laubhan-Oliver
The peacock mirror gets its own patterns from the opinion of the tail feathers.
Abbott Moon
The lone peacock pillow brings the bird-inspired colors and shapes in this room into consideration.
DwellStudio uses a toile-like peacock pattern in its own famous Peacock Citrine bedding.
COLECCION ALEXANDRA
It is no accident the polished oval backs of these chairs are in peacock blue.
Horchow
The other peacock-colored room. This one goes to get an exotic texture; think peacock strutting through the hanging gardens of Babylon.
Amoroso Design
Peacock-colored tile.
Jerusalem Pottery
A peacock mosaic backsplash.
Chase Building Group
A hand forged iron and stone masterpiece
A custom peacock gate. This is not an entrance for the meek or retiring.
Contemporary Serveware – $120
Look at these tiny feather spoons. Imagine them on a table set in greens and blues. To die for.
DwellStudio
Pair of Steel Peacocks – $88
Just a set of silver peacocks perhaps seeking to hang out on your bookcase.
Ferm Living Shop
Feather background, Ferm Living – $110
This background is peacocky although not overly peacocky.
Victorian Fireplace Screens – $159
The peacock’s fan-shape tail makes a perfect fireplace screen.
Etsy
8-by-8-inch peacock art block, NEArtStudio on Etsy – $19.98
A white peacock: elegant, contemporary and pretty damn fancy.
Etsy
Peacock three-color wall sticker, NouWall – $79
This giant decal is a special way to add color and pattern into a wall. The colors in the background on the ceiling will also be peacock-inspired.
Fawn&forest
LittleLion Studio Peacock Black Label Wall Decal – $140
A contemporary peacock wall sticker: the noncloying alternative for a bird-theme nursery.
More:
Peacock Grandeur at Home Décor
Saturated Color: Peacock Blues
Using Birds as Décor