How to decorate your home with jute

How to decorate your home with jute? The rough structure of this material allows us to create different types of decoration that we can use in our homes.

Here are some tips and suggestions for learning how to furnish and decorate with jute.

Creative ideas for decorating with jute

Recycling jute to make decorations for home furnishings has become a trend in recent years among lovers of rustic style. Precisely because of the special characteristics of this material, jute is particularly suitable for use in the context of furnishing a terrace, a garden or even a living room.

What to create with jute? This material is nowadays an excellent resource for home furnishing. Jute cloth is a material obtained from the natural fibres of the Corchorus Capsularis plant, a plant species very similar to the common hemp plant.

The burlap obtained from these plants is a particularly resistant material, characterised by its typical rough and thick texture. In the past, this material was used almost exclusively to make sacks for storing goods.

Jute cloth is also a very inexpensive material that can be used in a variety of ways to make decorations for home furnishings. Because of its special structure and colouring, it can be used in the home to upholster furniture, cushions and other accessories in the home.

Only a few years ago, jute was used exclusively for furnishing country houses or those with a rustic style of furnishing. In recent years, the material has begun to be used and combined with the most varied furnishing styles, and in particular with the Scandinavian Nordic style, with the shabby chic style, and even with the retro vintage style.

Here are the most interesting ideas for furnishing and decorating with the help of jute.

Covering armchairs and chairs with jute

One of the best uses of jute in home furnishing is certainly the covering of chairs and armchairs with the help of this material. Thanks to its particular colour and texture, this material is able to give a minimal and vintage touch to your environments.

To upholster a chair with jute, you will have to make sure that you iron the fabric carefully, guaranteeing the furniture a better finish and preventing the material from deteriorating easily over time. You can also use burlap to make decorative cushions to place on your sofa.

If you do not have the desire or time to undertake the covering of your chairs and armchairs, you may purchase the stupendous Colverde Chair, with a structure in chrome-plated metal and a seat in hand-woven jute rope (natural colour). By placing this piece of furniture in your environments, you will confer to them a vintage and refined atmosphere.

Making jute cutlery trays

Another interesting idea to decorate your home with jute is to create a very nice and functional table accessory: with jute cloth you can make your very own cutlery trays.

Simply cut a sack of jute into several parts and sew them together to make a cutlery tray. You can decorate the accessory according to your taste and store your cutlery inside it.

Covering vases with jute

One of the most common uses of jute in the context of terrace or garden furniture is to use it as a pot cover. Because of its characteristics, jute is perfect for creating beautiful pots for flowers and plants on your terrace or garden.

Jute is also a porous fabric and for this reason particularly suitable for ensuring the absorption and filtration of water, which is essential for plants. If you want to cover a particularly small plant or flower, you can cut the jute bag into several parts and make small containers to fill with soil and pot your plants or flowers in.

Make a lamp out of jute

There are really many ideas for decorating your rooms with jute bags: for a rustic style bedroom you can, for example, decide to cover your lamp with jute cloth. The porous fabric of jute is the ideal solution to create an environment characterised by a quiet and romantic atmosphere, with the help of diffused lighting.

As well as making a lamp cover out of jute, you can also decide to make a DIY lamp out of this material. Just buy the electrical part of the instrument and use the jute cloth to give it the shape you want.

Making a storage container or accessory organiser

Finally, we have a really interesting and functional idea for furnishing your home with jute. You can decide to make a container or organiser in which to store your bathroom accessories, for example. Or you can decide to make an organiser in which to store your slippers.

To do this, you will need a jute bag and cut it into the shapes and sizes you want. Then sew pockets or compartments on the cut-out for storing your objects and accessories.

Finally, you can decorate your organiser in any way you like, for example by colouring it or applying embroidery or ribbons.