Country Style Bedding

Home within the trees; nestled with nature

Why do you love your home?: Our home is in a quiet location nestled amongst birds and deer. It is a casual home where we like to relax at the end of our busy days. And we didn’t have to move to the hill country to enjoy all this.

Why did you decide on this home: We loved the secluded location which allows nature (birds, deer & bunnies) to live around us.

One thing I’d change about my house: A larger master closet, but if that is the only issue, we have a plenty of other closets to use.

Best home project I’ve completed here and why: Added bookshelves in the sunroom about a year ago. That was the finishing touch it needed.

I get ideas/inspiration for my house by: Looking at magazines daily. I love design and using other home pictures as examples to incorporate into our home.

I save lots of money on my home by: Using fluorescent bulbs everywhere, even in the dimmable can lights.

Places where I find home furnishings: My decorator, Jennifer Wither, is responsible for our home furnishings. Jennifer had decorated three bedrooms in our previous home. When we moved, we just used the same timeless furniture and bedding to create our new bedrooms. Jennifer is great. I have also purchased some of her furniture for the sunroom and master bedroom and I love it.

My home’s best feature: The location, we have cardinals, doves and owls that visit us daily as well as deer and rabbits that come to feed regularly.

Modern Country Bedroom

Modern Country Bedroom

Country style bedrooms have become very democratic these days, perhaps due to their informality, simplicity and a leaning towards hand-crafted natural materials. While it can be stylish, the country bedroom should always be reposeful and refreshing without over doing accurate co-ordination of furniture and fabrics.

Since the emphasis is on comfort and character is is easy to see that the true hallmarks of the country bedroom are a clean unfussy environment that is perfectly conducive to rest and relaxation, with practical fabrics and furnishings that have restrained but often rich colour schemes.

If you’re lucky enough to have a rustic room anyway, don’t over furnish it. Instead, allow the architecture to do the talking and let the furniture complement it rather than fight it. It is often best to choose a showpiece bed and then match it with eclecticist pieces of furniture.

Warm pine furniture mixed with cream and white bedding will often give the bedroom a cosy feel, while a traditional brass bed is an important ingredient of the traditional country style and can transform the look of your bedroom. If you feel capable to afford a four-poster then you’ll instantly create a bedroom that’s non only spectacular but also perfect for reposeful in astatine the end of a long hard day.

Try to choose bedside tables that match for a co-ordinated look and layer your bed with throws and cushions. Be aware that munificently stuffed cushions, feather pillows and duck-down quilts ensure that comfort is high on your list of priorities. A deeply buttoned, cushiony headboard instantly creates a comfortable feel in your room, while padding the foot of your bed creates a look that shouts pure luxury.

Keep walls plain and simple, or go for patterned wallpapers that will still delight you even when you are lying in bed with gastric flu! If you’re committing to a bold pattern, go for a motif that you really identify with, whether you choose butterflies, birds or florals. While you can mix florals and plains – take care not to overdo it in a small room.

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