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Home Decorating Tips for Country Decorating


Country decorating is a largely encompassing room decorating style that depends much on geographical location. For decorating tips on country home decorating, the designers at HGTV have broken down country home decorating into easy decorating tips for your home interior decorating.

Country Home Decorating
There are many country decorating styles, such as English Country, American Country, French Country, Swedish Country and Southwest style. Other looks can be classified as either traditional, contemporary, rustic, farmhouse or cottage. Colors that typify rustic country decorating are soft and muted and show the wear of time. More contemporary country home decorating may feature a brighter color palette with accents of red, black or pure white to set off the design.

Living Room Decorating
Living room decorating in a country theme would include primitive furniture from flea markets, as well as muted colors, milk-paint finishes and vintage fabrics. Vintage signs and game boards are great additions to casual living room decorating, and old wooden toolboxes and ladders are durable, useful accessories. Floral, checked and striped patterns printed on calico fabric add visual interest and color to an understated country home decorating. Other decorating tips for country decorating include incorporating country-style accessories, like baskets, carved wooden bowls and hand-forged metal accents.

HGTV’s Designer’s Portfolio
For a wealth of information on home interior decorating and country home decorating, visit HGTV’s Designer’s Portfolio. There you’ll find photos and ideas on country decorating for each room of your house, from English country living rooms, English country kitchens and English country children’s rooms to country kitchens, country bathrooms and country outdoor spaces.