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"Simple & Easy Ideas for creating beautiful Country French decor"

French Country Decor embodies a colorful, casually graceful, naturally rustic, relaxed and welcoming environment. How can you create this unique and friendly decor in your home? Read on to find out how!

Founded in the Provence region of southeastern France, French Country decor is first of all colorful, with sunny yellow, golds, terracotta red, lavender, bright and dark greens and of course, French blue.

French Country Decor

This color palette is mixed and matched on fabrics, accents and walls, creating a cheerful, friendly and welcoming French County style home. Add to this bright and bold colors accents of black and gray, and you are on your way to creating a beautiful decor.

But there is much more to French Country decor than color. Natural materials that are selected for floors, walls, furniture and case goods enhance the rustic charm.

You'll find rough plaster walls, natural wood or stone floors, beamed ceilings, iron accents throughout, and, don't be surprised to find a gracefully curved piece of furniture as well to offset the rustic tones of the other materials.

French Country decor also presents a casually organized look, with each piece having a place as part of the entire look.

It's a loving blend of old and new, not cluttered or thrown together, including patterns and colors within the French Country palette, iron and wood, rustic and elegant.

You can create beautiful and elegant French Country decor in your home yet live with today's modern styles and conveniences. Here is an example.

The kitchen/dining area may have a striking yet welcoming shade of medium gold on the walls, black appliances, colorful deep red counter tops, tile or stone floors, simple cabinetry in hickory or maple, and an antique (or reproduction) rectangular dining set, large enough to seat ten or even twelve people.

French country decor kitchen The chandelier that hangs over the table is a rustic yet elegant iron, and there is a beautifully colorful area rug under the dining set to highlight the dining area.

Reproduction French Country prints are on the walls depicting the beautiful southern French countryside. There is an abundance of sunshine streaming in through the windows that have their wood shutters wide open.

There may be natural woven baskets hanging, rush seats on the dining chairs, greenery tastefully present in the room, and colorfully mismatched dinnerware in selected colors from the overall palette.

It is casually elegant, colorful and definitely French Country decor!

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