How To Decorate A 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.

ACCESSORIES

Conventional touches include an old cradle housing dolls and a Shaker-style peg rail.

WINDOWS

Roman blinds in unbleached cotton and off-white painted window frames add to the feel of natural light.

FURNITURE

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.

WALLS

Vertical tongue-and-groove paneling, painted teal blue with a grapevine motif frieze, creates a rich backdrop, lifted by the off-white ceiling and paintwork.

FLOOR

Varnished pine floorboards are softened with rather simple, plain, and striped throw rugs, echoing the wall and ceiling colors.

Decorate A Country Bedroom Furnishings

The bed: This is actually the focal point of the bedroom. Interestingly, early American antique beds would today be regarded as too narrow and short, so oldish and reproduction beds are much better when it comes to both comfort and cost. Four-poster beds with or without canopies, or half-testers with two headposts and a small canopy, in dark, polished old wood like bird’s-eye maple, mahogany, or fruitwood are excellent. Curved, carved headboards and carved finials – fruit and flower motifs are common – on slender, turned posts add to the look. Simple brass beds are just as acceptable. On a budget, enhance basic pine wood furniture with Pennsylvania Dutch-type stenciling, possibly repeating stenciled wall motifs.

Other furniture: Freestanding, dark, polished wood is better; keep clear of built-in units or matching suites. Traditional choices include large old armoire-type wardrobes, ‘high boys’ and ‘lowboys’, which often can be used as desks or dressing tables. At the foot of the bed, put a stenciled dowry chest, blanket chest, or old sea trunk. Candle stands and washstand cupboards make authentic occasional tables; on a tight budget, cover an inexpensive table with a floor-length patchwork or white damask cloth.

Accessories: Layers of fresh-looking linens, topped with a patchwork, applique, or plain quilt, a white chenille bedspread, or a woven coverlet gives an anonymous bed a country look. Crisp white piecework, crochet or lacework cushions, runners, and tablecloths add a softening influence. Display simple vases, jugs, and baskets of garden flowers and house plants. On the walls, hang framed needlework samplers, or unsophisticated paintings or prints of fruits and flowers, domestic animals, or country scenes.

These guidelines on how to decorate a country bedroom really should make this a fun project that gives you a whole lot of enjoyment for quite some time.

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