Decorating Tuscan Style with Tips from the Pros at HGTV

Tuscan style décor features a rustic, sun-baked look characterized by crumbling stone patios, simple and sturdy furnishings. It’s simple to add a Tuscan style décor to your home with tips from HGTV Decorating experts.

Decorating Tuscan Style
Ways to incorporate Tuscan style into your home are with elegant iron accents, terra-cotta tiles and textured wall finishes, detailed murals and trompe l'oeil designs are also great ways to create Tuscan style design in your home. The color palette in a Tuscan style house should leans heavily on earthy, unpretentious hues evocative of a Tuscan hillside. Tuscan style floors are generally terra-cotta tiles, stone with mosaic inlay or worn wood covered with antique rugs. Architecture of a Tuscan style house should include rough plaster walls that soar up to a rustic beamed ceiling. Windows in Tuscan style design are left simple and bare to take advantage of unfiltered natural light.

Home Decorating Tuscan Style
For a wealth of information and home decorating Tuscan style, visit HGTV’s Design Styles center. There you’ll find ideas on home decorating Tuscan style for each room of your house, from how to create a romantic Tuscan bedroom, to a Tuscan-inspired living room and dining room to a Tuscan-inspired kitchen. You can also view several different Tuscan style houses on HGTV’s Designer’s Portfolio page. There you’ll find pictures of Tuscan style kitchens, Tuscan style entryways, Tuscan style bathrooms and even Tuscan style outdoor spaces.