Nature is a wonderful decorating inspiration but your rustic decor need not look like a cabin in the deep woods. You can decorate rustic with a modern sensibility to create strong room character using rustic influences in any part of the home.
Rustic Basics
Your home may have basic rustic features without adding to it. Homes with natural wood paneling, exposed beams, unfinished wooden stair rails, ceiling fans, and wooden window frames already have rustic features. But you can add rustic features with a few design elements.
Entryways
Give your front porch, door, and outdoor entry space rustic touches with colorful wreathes and door art, and yard flags. Place perennial natural displays like interesting wood, vines or rocks in decorative vases or on porch rails to give entry ways a bit of personality.
Kitchen
Bring to a kitchen with a large pine or maple farm kitchen table. If you're looking for sophisticated rustic, select a farm table with a darker finish. Natural pine color looks more rustic and should be used sparingly as it communicates cabin living rustic. A long dark farm table is a beautiful design statement in a kitchen. A large bowl of fresh fruit like lemons or apples, or a flower and fruit dried arrangement on the table is classic rustic.
Add today's homey kitchen design themed rugs, curtains and kitchen canisters with images of prancing chickens or other whimsical designs and bring a bit of rustic design to the kitchen.
Family Room
The family room is the best place to bring dominant rustic design elements. Use dark stained, heavy wood cabinets, hutches, and sideboards or even a family room bar. If you have collections of smaller table display items, the family room is where you'll want to display them.
Family rooms tend to have additional wall space for hanging paintings or framed quilts or other rustic artwork. Consider a large focal point in the room above a fireplace to set the design tone in the space.
Bathrooms
Bathrooms can pose a challenge to decorate rustically. Use color to impart rustic decor into a bathroom space. Several shades of complementary dark green on bathroom walls mixed with pure white or a dark or lighter shade of brown is a beautiful rustic color palette for the bath.
Window treatments in rustic spaces can take advantage of wood features like indoor panel shutters. Fabric curtains that allow for part of the window to remain uncovered, such as a half curtain or a valance. Look for small bathroom vanity storage containers that complement this decor.
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