Give your house a country look.
Country style homes boast a comforting, folksy and informal aesthetic that begins with the first layer of paint. Whether you live out in the country or just want to make your home feel welcoming with a rural look, use cheery colors to create the right backdrop for handmade crafts, wooden furniture and other decorative country elements.
Color Selection
Homeowners often play it safe by using neutral colors, but country decor favors warm tones. Use a variety of colors, such as mild blues and greens, deep burgundy or maroon to paint your walls. Use different colors in each room to give your house variety. Decorate rooms using both adjacent and complementary colors to blend with your walls. For example, if you paint a room blue, fill it with objects in the blue-green through blue-violet range as well as orange, the complementary color, to give the room a lot of visual interest.
Animal Stencils
Decorate your dishes, your walls or your counters with stencils of barn animals, farmhouses and other country-themed images. Draw the stencils on cardstock or contact paper and carefully cut out the shape with a craft knife. If you are using contact paper, remove the backing and lay it flat on the object you want to stencil. Otherwise, just tape the stencil in place. Use spray paint to stencil on walls, counters and other parts of your house or enamel paint pens to create dishwasher-safe designs on top of dishes. To create a border, paint two thin lines near the bottom, top or edge of a wall and fill it in with stencils spaced regularly between the lines.
Rustic Furniture
Use paint to turn simple chunks of unfinished wood into cabin-style furniture. Cut a 2.5 foot section of a tree stump. Coat it with several layers of brightly colored paint, or use varnish and stain to give it a more natural look. The paint coating will transform it from a hunk of wood to an authentic country-style stool. For a rustic table or desk, glue or nail an unfinished board on top of two low bookshelves. Paint the whole thing blue or white, or stain it a deep cherry or mahogany to give it the look of your choice.
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