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Decorating With Rustic Bedroom Furniture
Decorating with rustic bedroom furniture can really add warmth and create a theme in your space. It can also be a design challenge. This furniture is often oversized. However, it doesn’t have to totally take over your space. Here are a few tips for decorating with rustic bedroom furniture.
Create a theme with your existing bedroom furniture. This make sure that you get a unique look and also at the same time it just costs a little bit of money. You could create a rustic looks just by bringing in a bench and placing it at the end of your existing bed. You’ll want to make sure that you match your rustic with whatever wood tones you already have. This allows you to easily change out your theme without totally replacing every item in your room.
When you decorate with rustic bedroom furniture you’ll want to make sure that things don’t seem too heavy or overcrowded. You can do this just by using less furniture. Another option would be to vary the color. You can make your old furniture seem more modern by painting it gray or black. This will change up the look and the theme but you’ll still have that very rustic and hearty line to it.
Embrace your theme. Rustic bedroom furniture might feel a little bit Western. You could bring in wide plank hardwood floors. Then you can accessorize with an old chandelier. You want to make sure that you only bring in your favorite items so that it feels intentional instead of like junk.
This style could work for a teen or a baby’s room as well as a master bedroom. This will depend on how you style the space and what kind of fabrics you choose to bring into the room. If you are using this design style in a kid’s room then you want to make sure that you decorate mostly with accessories. Then you won’t have to spend a lot of money when your child wants a new theme. However, this hearty wood furniture can work with a lot of different design styles and can grow with your child.
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Use Rustic Home Furnishings to Create a Country Home
For many city dwellers, rustic home furnishings are a way to escape the hectic urban lifestyle for the peaceful tranquility of rural living. When it’s impossible to leave the corporate rat race behind, an urban apartment or city house decorated in rustic home furnishings can be a relaxing place to unwind after a stressful day at the office.
Country decorating utilizes natural materials as much as possible and decorative items that look handmade even when they aren’t. Wooden floors may be polished to sheen, yet have characteristic marks from decades of being walked on. Braided rugs are scattered about, providing texture and warmth. The walls may be painted in neutral shades or earth tones, or perhaps papered in small floral patterns or bold country motifs.
For those living on country farms or in mountain cabins, the rustic decorating style is a natural choice that showcases the tradition of a farming heritage. And for those who live in-between, the suburbanites, upscale country home furnishings can provide a comfortable gathering place for family and friends to enjoy each other’s company, or to relax after a long commute.
Popular designs incorporate such elements as apples, floral wreaths, roosters, birdhouses, hearts, and Americana folk art for borders or to be used either above or below chair railing or crown molding. Wide borders with bold patterns complement smaller matching designs, checks, stripes, or plaids that can be used for larger wall areas.
A bear or moose motif may be used with more rustic home furnishings to create a log cabin ambience or to bring the feel of wilderness living into the dwelling. Chandeliers that look like wagon wheels or that are made from antlers, whether authentic fixtures or reproductions, are common lighting elements for rustic decorating.
From moose wall plates and elk switch plates, to bear coat hooks and deer towel bars, loon key holders and pinecone or leaf curtain swag holders, we are your source for rustic metal art decor featuring wildlife and fish themes for decorating your log home, lodge, cottage and log cabin.