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French Country Style Decor

Posted by Admin On March - 25 - 2012

You don’t have to be an interior designer or French professional to develop the French country style to your residence. Even if you haven’t visited rural France you can still get the look by doing a bit of research.

It need not price a fortune either simply because you can recycle old pieces of furniture to create that French feel.  Or you can locate some antique pieces and paint or upholstery to get the look at half the cost.  Stencils are a huge French country look and you can acquire them or make your own.

French country style decorating is based on the casual, however elegant feeling of the French countryside. The mood that it creates is cosy, warm and rustic. Most of the colours are inspired by natural surroundings including bright yellows, lavender, cobalt blues, gold’s, greens, beige, brown and deep reds.

With a rustic appeal and old-world comfort the French country still is easy to replicate. To emulate the French country look you may locate in a cottage in rural France you need to have a mixture of natural stone floors, rooster motifs, carved wood furniture, wrought iron furnishings, plastered-surface walls painted or washed in butter-yellow paint. A primitive farm table would look excellent with a Provencal tablecloth. Crockery should be bright and match your overall colour scheme.

You can accessorize your house with baskets, crockery, linen, copper pots and considerably far more. Fabrics come in all sorts of country style colours.  Stripes and checks are common as are the plainer type of designs.  You can get beautiful flowered fabrics with little prints or larger.  Sunflowers are a popular design.

The way you dress your windows will also have a significant impact of the complete French country style house decor look. I would recommend Provencal fabrics and colours rather than heavy contemporary fabrics.

You can finish off your look with fresh flowers, which is an vital portion of the French Country feel.  They can be fresh, dried or silk you will get the exact same effect.  Certainly fresh flowers will give off a beautiful fragrant.

With a bit of creativity and imagination you should easily be in a position to pull off a great new French country style house decor look that you can be proud of!