Home Decorating Styles inspired by Nature

You can surround yourself with beautiful scenes from nature in your home to create a relaxed atmosphere far from everyday rush. Despite the diversity, there are some common elements in this style such as muted colors, painted finishes. Homespun quality with handmade accessories play an important part. Here are some popular styles in this category: Country Style, Rustic Decor, Primitive Style, Log Cabin Style, Southwestern Style.

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Country Style

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Rooms with a country style are inspired by nature - generally feature subdued colors, vintage textiles, simple furniture, and down-to-earth accessories. As you know, we only feature Handmade Home Decor, you will be able to find unique items that you cannot buy in any specialized store.

Colors - Soft, muted colors showing the wear of time - rustic country style. A more contemporary country look may feature a brighter color palette with accents of red, black or pure white to set off the design.

Furniture - Pieces with straight lines, painted finishes and very little ornamentation, family heirlooms, antiques, and flea market finds that are plain in design with a painted finish.

Accessories - Handmade, country-style accessories, like baskets, carved wooden bowls, pottery, pewter and hand-forged metal accents, wooden crockery.

Fabrics - Floral, checked and striped patterns printed on calico fabric add visual interest and color to an understated country room. Ideal country furnishings include Fabrics on sofas, chairs, and windows are usually white or cream in color, while accent fabrics are patterned with floral themes, plaids, stripes, or checked designs.

 

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Rustic Style

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Rustic used to mean 'rickety and cheap'...When it comes to the decor of your rustic country home, a minimalist style works best. Accomplish this by minimizing the amount of accessories and reducing their ornamentation. Showy knick-knacks and useless trinkets have no place in a rustic style country interior. Discard the artificial stylized elements seen in typical "country style" and the result is a healthier and more direct relationship with the surrounding countryside.

Color Scheme Rustic color palettes usually spring from natural sources and materials like leather or suede, pewter or metals with patina, wood floors, wrought iron or rusted metals, natural fabrics like cotton, hemp, linen, wool, or animal hides, stone, rocks, or concrete, outdoor and garden elements.

Walls A natural approach is best when selecting such elements. Pull colors from your surroundings and incorporate the textures found only in nature, close-up.

Furniture Since rustic, wooden furniture is extremely textural, add it in small amounts. An entire room may be too much, while a few pieces allow each item to stand out. Add some bent willow chairs around an old oak table, or include a few pieces in a fireplace grouping. Warm up rustic seating pieces with cushions and pillows. These will soften the chairs visually and provide an additional level of comfort.

Assessories Handmade Home Decor quality rustic-style accessories like polished logs, branches, bark, or twigs, stone, consider using rustic accent pieces such as tables, mirrors, coat trees, or other accessories

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Primitive Style

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Handmade Primitive Decor most often includes folk art, tramp art, and vintage americana art. A dried flower arrangement looks great on a distressed, pine top table. Faded, checked fabrics, or fabrics made to look like old flour sacks are perfect for this style and do not forget some primitive emroidery on pillows or lamps.Texture is a key ingredient to primitive decor. Rusted and worn metal items add character to rooms. Handmade rugs lend themself well to the flooring needs of a primitive room.

Colors Primary colors, especially muddied or faded

Furniture Handcrafted objects are perfect in primitive rooms. Shaker style furniture, pottery, and lanterns work together to bring warmth and coziness to primitive decor. Distressed book shelves are a great way to organize and display books and collectibles. Other types of distressed furniture are options for this knd of Americana decorating style as well.

Accessories Baskets,Twig furniture, Patchwork, Yellow-ware, Red-ware, Spinning wheels, Balls of homespun yarn, Wooden kneading bowls, Gourds, pumpkins, sunflowers.

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Southwestern Style

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You don't have to live in Arizona or New Mexico to enjoy Southwestern style interior design. This style draws its inspiration from nature and the Native American, Spanish, and Mexicaninfluences as well as Pioneer settlers that populated the American Southwest in the 18th and 19th centuries. Southwestern style, as we know it today takes the colors and textures from the desert with the Mexican and Spanish additions of ironwork, textiles, and wooden carvings. Southwestern style interior design follows the soft lines of traditional adobe houses. It's a simple and affordable style to achieve, if you pay attention to the details.

Color Scheme The colors of Southwestern design are the colors found in the American desert. Rich, rust terra cotta, soothing sand colors, and deep mahogany brown combine to form a relaxed, natural palette. Sometimes, the bright colors common to the Native American and Mexican cultures, such as bright red and deep azure blue are used as accent colors.

Walls The textures of Southwestern style interior design also mirror those elements found in nature in the American Southwest. Natural clay tile, pine wooden structural beams and furniture, and woven grasses are all key elements in this design style.

Furniture Furniture in Southwestern design can range from plain, unadorned, plank tables to intricately carved chairbacks and headboards. Pine is the wood of choice in this design style, with iron tables, lamps, and cabinet hardware used for accents. The colorful textiles are usually thickly woven and used both for upholstery and wall art. Leather and suede are also popular upholstery materials for sofas, chairs, and ottomans. Large cabinets and chests are popular in Southwestern design, as the traditional 19th century adobe homes did not have built-in clothes or linen closets.

Accessories Handmade Home Decor quality accessories with coarse surfaces, vibrant textiles, wrought iron, hand-crafted items, painted stoneware, and terracotta. Hand-painted ceramic or clay tiles are popular accents on flooring, countertops, woven rugs, woven blankets and pillows, clay jars and pots, wrought-iron statuary, and woven wall hangings, American cowboy accessories, such as wagon wheels, leather saddles, and cowboy art also make interesting additions.

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Log Cabin Style

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No lakefront or mountainside escape is complete without a rustic log cabin retreat. Lodge style is essentially a refined log cabin. The exposed logs and wooden beams are important to the rustic feel on both in the inside and outside of the home. For those just wanting the look this rustic style interior design, try wood paneling or wallpaper that simulates log cabin timbers. Aspen logs, birch logs, and cedar logs are transformed into stylish, yet rugged pieces of furniture, such as four-poster beds with tree limbs as the posts or desks with a planed piece of pine as the surface. Do not forget large, open spaces, paneled walls, and prominent fireplaces and cast-iron pot-bellied stoves.

Color SchemeLog cabin style interior design draws from the colors of nature – rich browns reflect the bark, leaves, and limbs of the forest, light moss greens mirror ponds and streams, deep greens depict the lush foliage of summer, and vibrant rusts and golds remind residents of the fading glory of autumn. Vibrant plaids and attractive nature prints, particularly those that feature ducks, moose, and bear are also popular, and help to brighten to often-paneled rooms.

Furniture Log home furniture stays true to its name with cleverly and expertly crafted log items, such as a sleek desk with branches as legs or a sofa constructed of rough-hewn logs. Rocking chairs, made from soft pine, sleek maple, or even birth or aspen tree limbs, deep green, overstuffed cushions, leather chest. bed made from cut logs, calico print brdding, rag rug and sturdy pine side tables as well as pie safes and dry sinks.

Accessories Items, such as fishing gear and household gadgets, Moose and bear themed-items, anything from a lamp to a bookend, Quilts, blankets, and woven throws. In addition, symbols of the Old West, such as leather saddles, wagon wheels, stirrups, and lassos. Artwork - Handmade Home Decor Folk art, simple and primitive designs painted on old barnwood or simply forged metal works, and Textile art adds vibrant colors to the wood-paneled walls. Also add leather upholstery, items found outside to finish your look.

Fabrics bark, rough textiles. Hardwood floors are a common theme in rustic cabin decor, usually covered partially by area rugs, often rag, fur, or braided rugs. Barnwood and roughly loomed fabric also add the prairie feel to your room or house.

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See Also:

• Europe Inspired Decorating Styles
• Other Decorating Styles
• Historical Decorating Styles
• Ethnic Decorating Styles
• Modern Decorating Styles
• Theme Rooms