To re-create the feel of the outdoors in your home, rely on texture. Instead of synthetic materials or fine finishes that disguise the furnishingÕs natural origins, select pieces that retain the textures of their native form: knotty pine or rough-cedar paneling thatÕs a home to splinters, bamboo with its soft-smooth but irregular feel, grainy cane, hard iron, twig furniture with the original contours of bark, and nubby, natural fibers in coarse weaves.
