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Simplicity is an Easy Look with Rustic Furniture
Some days, it can sound like the perfect place to get away, a trip back to when life was simple and values were all exactly as they seemed. In a complicated world, the simplicity of rustic furniture can be just the right look for making your home look… well homier. That special air that you get when spending a week in an isolated cottage may not be all about the breeze and the lack of traffic. A good share of the aura of that relaxed zone is found in the simple furnishings and the connection with nature.
Easy living is not always glamorous and sleek. If anything, too much glamour tends to create a high maintenance home, becoming a place that is anything but relaxing. Rustic furniture crafted from solid logs, sporting the natural colors so unique to each different type of wood can bring that special simplicity into your home. For those who seek a lived in feeling where growth and natural relationships will grow richly, rustic furniture can be the perfect style.
While many envision rustic furniture and log furniture to be best for the cabin and covered with Indian print cushions, it isn’t necessary. The warmth of the rough hewn logs found in rustic furnishings can be fabulous paired with overblown cabbage rose prints and leather, as well as lace. One of the greatest things about decorating homes today is the amount of playfulness and crossover between styles you can enjoy. Eclectic home style is as timeless and the designs found in log furniture.
Adding a new outdoor living porch can provide one with the perfect excuse to create a far more relaxed aura than is found within the home. The lovely qualities of rustic furniture can make your new fresh air room completely unique and very charming.
Children’s rooms can be a very special challenge, trying to handle bridging the gap between good looking décor and furnishings that will hold up to their demands. Log beds can be the perfect choice for boy’s room of all ages. Girls are not all as prim and lacey as they once were, and many a young girl’s rustic bed can easily be made the throne of the princess with the right comforter and wall hangings.
Rustic furniture in the guest room can add a lot of much needed whimsy and expression to just about any home’s décor designs. Many times, a recently freed bedroom due to a child leaving the nest, opens the possibilities of a new project. Here log beds and rustic bedroom furniture may impart just the right fresh note to your home. The finished new space for visitors will be charming or dramatic; however you decide to accent the warmth of the solid log bed’s construction.
Rustic beds can be the focal point of a room, a play on decorating styles or you can elect to do an entire room in all log furniture. The wonderful thing is you have plenty of room to have some fun while enjoying solid wood and fine craftsmanship. Today’s mixing of styles to create unique personality find a perfect match for rustic furniture in the bedroom, and anywhere else in your home.