Reason #547 of Why I Love Yurts (Creative Yurt Interiors 101)

Know why I love yurts?  OK, there are fifty million reasons, but the one that is really on my mind today is the fun of decorating/designing the interior.  Having a space that is so removed from the norm in America, so outside of what we have been culturally raised with, really opens up a world of creative possibilities.  Wanna hang hammocks all over the place inside?  Go for it!  Want a raised platform bed smack in the middle of the yurt?  Try that!  How about a full circle library? 

(That's not our yurt, BTW.  The rest of the ones below are.)

 

 

How about hanging beautiful lace randomly from the center window?

 

Or maybe prayer flags?

 

 

 

 

Or go really crazy and paint the stairs to your loft in rainbow colors!

 

There are truly no rules in yurt  interior décor.  It's a big circle.  Go crazy.  Make floors out of stones and slices of trees.  Or paint it purple.  Hang drying herbs from the center ring.  Or a kite.  Or hundreds of peace cranes.  That's my next project:

Or maybe you're classy and not so crazy.  Cool.  Decorate your yurt in nothing but shades of white and cream with occasional punches of pale blue.  Hang yards of gauzy fabric everywhere.  It doesn't ever have to look like anything you've seen in the design magazines, because it already won't because you live in a YURT!  I've never lived in a place that I felt more free to do whatever my heart desired than in this old used yurt.  It's a small enough space that projects aren't too big and nothing costs too much.  And there's always, always the reminder--through the sounds of the forest that the walls don't hold out and the breezes flowing through on any day over 60 degrees--that no matter what we do to the interior of this home, the truest, most important beauty, is not indoors at all: