Ideas About Rustic Furnishings

Rustic furnishings include a wide range of decor and furniture pieces which remind of old and simple times and spaces, when and where tradition reveals itself.
 
Rustic furnishing is influenced from the universal culture, presenting a history of evolution of shapes and textures, a cascade of creative solutions and a diversity of models characterized by simplicity and taste of the design, yet color and imagination of the fabrics and ornaments. The lines, shapes and themes depend on the specific geographical area.
 
Most popular European rustic styles are the British and the Italian ones. British, like French rustic furnishings present wooden beams on the ceiling, long and heavy curtains and table-clothes with added flounces. The Italian style is richer, more feminine and with more details, like ceramics painted with colorful flowers, as the famous embroideries from the Torcello Island. The oriental rustic style is represented by even more details, with themes and fabrics inspired by stories like “1001 nights”: heavy and fully decorated carpets, bed curtains like in old palaces, gold and shiny decor objects. The American rustic styles range from western, Texan and cowboy inspiration: leather blankets, fur covers for the floor to the simple Appalachian pieces, to stag antlers and pieces of furniture which look hand-made and keep the natural color or shape of the wood.

Furniture and decor with country inspiration is very ornamental and although the design is simple and most of the furniture with rustic aspect are made of wood, it rich in texture, with discreet, yet colored flowers and applications. The best idea is not to complete all room with rustic furnishings, but just to add a few small and unique pieces in a room and so they reveal their value. Some small oak chairs near a fireplace or an old armchair with manually adorned figures in order to get a cozy, rustic aspect.

The architecture and the walls of a room influence the impact that furniture has and the best option that adds value to the rustic furnishings is white or neutral color for the walls and simplicity of the whole design. A simple and affordable idea is to add some cushions and pillows to soften the aspect of the chairs and to visually provide a higher comfort level of the room. These can be made of fur or can be colorful, if the rest of the room is based on brown and caramel or cream colors and of different sizes.
 
In the same way, curtains have a good effect if they have flounces or bows, adding a romantic atmosphere to the room. The best rustic  combination is between natural colored wood and old aspect furniture with manually applied fantasy decoration. Fabrics of different types might be combined in a rustic collage, with floral, geometrical and stylized animals applications to get pillow or armchair covers.

Rustic furnishings are revealing, through the simple and natural elements, the cultural tradition and spiritual roots. The rustic atmosphere is warm and calm by caring the time impression and it welcomes to primitive, yet creative world, where true values can be rediscovered.