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French Country Style for 2009 FRENCH COUNTRY Home Decor Products for Decorating French Country Style
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Vivid interior color is a trademark of French Country style. For centuries, the French have looked to the surrounding landscape for color inspiration when decorating their homes. Create a comfortable French Country style decor accessories with rich colors and textures. |
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French Country Style Kitchens FRENCH COUNTRY DECOR DECORATING DESIGN
Iron in the French Country Kitchen
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French Country Decorating Ideas and Tips
Mediterranean style pottery, rustic urns and hand-painted European ceramics mixed with worn baskets, old paintings and carved wood are French country decorating accessories that give a home or French country style kitchen a vintage look.
Dishes, urns, vases, platters and pitchers can be displayed as art or used to hold cooking utensils, vegetables and fruit.
Transform your kitchen to a French country style with French country home decor products in the latest colors, textures and designs.
Hang antiqued copper wares from a wrought iron pot rack. Soften iron pot racks with abundant floral.
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Decorate a French country design kitchen with cheerful color and expression. Colorful ceramics, antiqued copper, sturdy, aged earthenware and decorative iron and metal add interest to French country style home decor.
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Creating a bit of southern France in your kitchen can be organizational as well as stylish and welcoming. Opt for decorating accessories that are as useful as they are pleasing to the eye.
Be inspired by French country style stoneware and canisters for kitchen decorating and use. French country kitchens are as beautiful as they are functional. Celebrate the functionality of French Country kitchen decor by displaying unique cooking wines, oils, spices, and vinegars. Show off large ceramic serving platters, pitchers, bowls and colorful ceramic canisters. Display a rustic, well-used cutting board and have it handy for use.
French Country style celebrates the use of worn metals and iron, aged wood surfaces and rough finishes. Choose iron wall decor and wrought iron light fixtures in French Country kitchen design. Locate an iron pot rack above the sink where large pans are washed. Hang them above for drying.
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2009 FRENCH COUNTRY DECOR
French Countryside Design - Accessories for French Country Theme Decorating
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French Country Kitchens
Decorating Accessories for French Country Decor Kitchens
Finishing Touches for French Country Kitchens
Country French style kitchens are the center of the home. Welcome friends and family to a French Country style kitchen by creating a lived in look.
French Country kitchens reflect the European custom of gathering friends and family together for good food and great conversation. Incorporate useful items into your decorating scheme. French wines, iron pot racks and natural stone serving accessories can be decorating accessories as well as being items that are used daily.
Natural stone floors, granite counter tops and tumbled marble back splashes are ideal materials for rustic French Country kitchen design. Vivid color compliments these natural building materials. Consider colorful kitchen canisters in your design theme.
In your French Country kitchen display fruit theme floral and framed art work. Group ceramic urns, copper pots, metal baskets and colorful vases, some reclining and some standing, with similar type objects on a an open shelf or above kitchen cabinets. Hang a wrought iron style hanging pot rack above a sunny window and fill it with terra cotta pots full of favorite herbs. Hang metal pot racks filled with aged copper pots and include wrought iron accents throughout your French Country kitchen design.
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French Country Furniture
Country French furnishings reflect a casual and practical lifestyle.
French Country furniture can be simple or elegant in design. The rustic French Country furniture look is casual, inviting, and carefree.
Rustic French Country furniture often includes accents of iron.
Dining tables are large, seating as many as twelve, and are often designed in plank style.
More ornate French Country furniture is distinguished by hand painted designs, wood carvings, scrolled iron and marble.
Accents of Salado specializes in accent tables offerd in our online shopping selection and large solid-wood plasma hutches, buffets and TV cabinets offered in our retail store located in Salado, Texas.
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| Designing a French Country Kitchen with Large Rustic Furniture
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Rustic Furniture in the French Country Kitchen
Free standing furniture is the hallmark of the French country kitchen. Large hutches store dishes and decorative accessories. A large armoire is ideal as a kitchen pantry. Bookshelves and tables are furniture pieces that can be incorporated into the French country kitchen design. Rustic, distressed finishes are ideal for French country kitchen design. Distressed finishes, worn with time, make the old word style kitchen a favorite with young families who quickly put a worn touch on a new kitchen. French Country Style Furniture
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Decorating with Red and Yellow in the French Country Style Kitchen and Dining Room
Shades of red are dramatic in the French country home. Pair brilliant red with sunflower gold. Team cranberry red with mustard yellow. Burnt orange and copper are shades of red found in dark wood, granite countertops, copper cookware, leather and iron accessories.
Consider red and when decorating a French country kitchen and dining room.
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French Country Decor Decorating Colors
French Country colors evoke thoughts of nature.
A favorite French Country color combination marries dark blue and buttery yellow, but many interior designers think outside the norm and embellish French style rooms with a multitude of ideal French color palettes. Consider coral, gold and aqua in your French Country decor. Opt for a combination of cranberry red and mustard gold or team brilliant red and sunflower yellow. French country colors emphasize lifestyle and comfort, rather than strict color pallette choices.
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Artistic Design in the Master Bedroom and Bath
Art in the French Country master bath takes many forms.
Designers in the bath fixture industry create functional art by studying the use of color and natural shapes. Bath fixture shapes are curved and soft. Fixture design is artistically pleasing to the eye.
The artistically designed French Country bathroom is the ideal location for soft secondary lighting, scrolled wrought iron wall art and large metal planters, bowls and decanters.
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FRENCH COUNTRY STYLE BEDROOMS and BATHROOMS can be rustic, sophisticated and luxurious.
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Creating French Country Style Bathrooms and Bedrooms
Decorative Pillows/Throws
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French Country Decor in Bath and Bedroom
Soften the look of rustic design materials with luxurious chenille bedding, tapestry throws, pillows, drapery and dresser runners. The soft textures and casual feel of woven tapestry will enhance the old world theme and bring additional French country color to your decorating palette. In the French Country master suite decorating accessories are echoed by individual tastes and lifestyles. Metal and glass containers used for storage, are French Country accents that give the bathroom old world appeal. Glass adds a touch of refinement to the master bath and is perfect for holding bath salts, oils and soaps. Natural stone, glass, woven tapestry, metal and iron accessories have been home decor basics for centuries and are ideal materials for decorating the French Country master suite.
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BALANCING DECORATING TASTES IN THE FRENCH COUNTRY STYLE MASTER BEDROOM
The drapery back drop in this picture creates a dramatic and romantic feel in this French country style master bedroom setting, yet the design maintains its masculine appeal by including iron wall decor in the decorating equation. Artistic scrolls in the iron curtain rod present a romantic French country feel, but the iron texture of the rod and the iron wall art stay in touch with masculine tastes.
Layers of texture adorn the bed with placement of a luxury runner across the bed under the throw pillows. The coordinating accent pillows are designed in rich silk trims and fringes.
Romance continues to be a top priority by including candlelight in the bedroom setting. The iron candle sconce design compliments the masculine texture and color theme throughout the room.
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Above, the iron wall sconces offer romantic candlelight and repeat the scrolled iron design in the curtain rod, the side tables and the wall art.
Dark wood side tables on iron stands reinforce the masculine appeal in this bedroom design and they provide a nesting place for textured greenery and personal touches.
Left, continuing an iron wall decor style, small architectural prints, featuring antique photographs of iron gated entrances, are framed by our Ventana iron wall grilles and the iron wall table. Picture frames are dark and textured. The table is scrolled and complimentary to the bedroom's color palette.
ACCESSORIES IN OUR FRENCH COUNTRY MASTER BEDROOM
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When decorating French Country, consider a combination of red and yellow in your decorating theme. Yellow can take on many shades, depths and hues in French decorating. Yellow may be buttery, brilliant and even a dark golden mustard. Red may be bright or may be russet in hue, but the combination of red and yellow represents a classic French duo.
Red and yellow wake up a room.
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Used as accent colors in accessories or as dominant colors in a favorite upholstered chair, red and yellow pump vitality into a room's design. Red and yellow is a traditional French color combination.
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