Country Bedroom

Decorate A Country Bedroom Guidelines – Natural materials, practical furniture, and restrained but rich color plans typify country design. Note the elements pinpointed here to help you recreate the style. Conventional touches include an old cradle housing dolls and a Shaker-style peg rail. Roman blinds in unbleached cotton and off-white painted window frames add to the feel of natural light. An antique mahogany bed with turned wood posts and acorn-shaped finials is comfortably fitted with crisp and clean cotton bed linens, a checked blanket, and traditional quilt. A Windsor chair and a rather simple wooden bench provide seating.

Here are some decorating tips for creating your own country bedroom look:

Walls: Whether they are plastered, papered, or tongue-and-groove paneled, keep walls plain. Combining low-level, tongue-and-groove paneling with a plain painted surface above is traditional. Consider narrow, vertical tongue-and-groove paneling up to wainscoting level if funds allow, with wide, horizontal tongue-and-groove paneling above, or vice versa. The paneling can be left natural, stained, or painted in solid, matte tones.

Patterned wallpapers are unsuitable, as are chalky ice-cream pastel colors such as light pinks, blues, and mauves. Earth colors, natural dye colors, off-white, and white are ideal for the look … read more