Are you looking to bring a bit of Italian Country into your home but don’t think you have the budget for it? With the central themes of Tuscan décor being food and nature this is one of the most popular and easiest styles to replicate. Italian country decor takes food, wine and nature and turns it into art. Two of the easiest rooms to incorporate this theme into are the kitchen and dining room. Does this Spark an idea?
Instructions
Decorate Your Kitchen and Dining Room with a Tuscan Style
1. Use deep, earthy colors like terra cotta, browns, deep reds, oranges, yellows and greens on your walls and for your accent colors. By adding these colors you will soon feel the touch of the Tuscan countryside in your own home
2. Add natural textures like stone, tile, aged wood, exposed wood beams, iron and copper. Italian country/ Tuscan décor is full of texture, especially on the walls. If you want to give your walls a textured look, Venetian plaster is a good choice, though it can get expensive if you have a large room. It can also be very time consuming. The easiest way to add some texture is by using a texture additive with regular latex paint.
3. Incorporate a few faux wooden beams (if you don’t have real ones) by taking pieces of wood at the desired length and width and framing it in to make a hollow beam. You can distress it by hitting it with a chain or hammer, burning it a little with a torch and scraping it up. Then add your stain and finish it. You’ll have wooden beams at half the price, even cheaper if you find scrap wood that can be used for this project.
4. Change your flooring to stone tiles or hardwood floors or fake it. You can get laminate flooring that looks like hardwood or vinyl tile flooring that looks like stone.
5. Select a few well chosen pieces of furniture and some accessories that can give you the Tuscan feel and look you're going for. You can find old pieces of furniture with an aged and distressed look at flea markets, garage sales, even on the side of the road in someone's garbage. Some pieces of furniture to look for are old style kitchen cabinets, sideboards, buffets, and most important a big farmhouse type dining room table that is large, simple and sturdy.
6. Add some accessories and well chosen accents. Think nature and food. Tuscan décor thrives on food and nature. Terra cotta pots filled with fresh herbs, wicker baskets full of fruit and vegetables, displays of glass bottles filled with vegetables, fruits, and herbs steeped in vinegar or oil, copper pots on display filled with dried pasta or garlic cloves. Baskets, terra cotta pots, and bottles can all be found very cheaply. Chances are you might already have some of these items sitting around and just didn’t know what to do with them or display them.
7. Think wine and grapes. These are big themes in Italian décor, grapes and grape leaves, grape vine wreaths, anything that incorporates grapes, wine, wine bottles, or wine glasses can be used as décor and accessories. You can also add a small iron wine rack and fill it with wine bottles (they don’t have to be full; it can be just for show).
8. Brighten up the space with sunflowers. There are fields full of sunflowers in Tuscany. Give your rooms the feel of the Tuscan countryside by throwing some sunflowers into your décor.
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