Hello World! Welcome Friends! A dreamy, romantic French country home combines the comfort of rustic with soft refinement and elegance.
We have compiled a list of the top 6 tips for the perfect French country home interior for you to browse through. Antique weathered furnishings, soft shapes, refined and delicate details, and a warm color palette will guarantee that your home is a welcoming, casual, yet effortlessly elegant, place to live.
Antique Furnishings
Start with the rustic side of French country interior design. Then we’ll discuss combining the rustic with refinement.
Antique stores, salvage yards, yard sales, etc., will have just the vintage, period-style furnishings and items you’re looking for. Do some deep diving to find repurposed and salvaged antique furniture (tables, chairs, beds, sofas, and more). Be mindful to look for elements with slim profiles, rather than bulkier items.
You could find a beautiful vintage dresser to use as a bathroom vanity, large-scale antique lighting sources, such as wall sconces, or perhaps a vintage glass hutch in which to display a gorgeous collection of dishes
Ample seating is a hallmark of French country home decor. Find a classic dining table that suits your home size and budget, and surround a classic table with quaint antique chairs. Or purchase a dining set from a transformer table collection and weather it yourself with milk and chalk paint.
Regal Refinement
French provincial furniture was designed in the 18th century for wealthy families. Therefore, it has a distinctly formal aura with myriad embellishments. This is where you can juxtapose your rustic elements with elaborate elegance and refinement.
Focus on light, whimsical, and dreamy materials. Picture full-length, billowing silk drapes that puddle on the floor. A crystal chandelier with candelabra bulbs. Pretty fringes, decorative trims, lacey accents, and layered linens in various hues. Top it all off with romantic fabrics such as luxurious navy velvet.
All of these lightweight, elegant fabrics can be used for bedding, pillows, seat cushions, and upholstery of all kinds.
Soft Shapes
Whether it’s your rustic furniture or your refined accents, always opt for curvy and soft.
Soft edges or soft cushions — French country home interior design is all about the combination of comfort and style.
Be playful with the shapes of your furniture. Choose furniture items, such as all varieties of seating, types of tables, storage units, and smaller accents like lamps, mirrors, and decorative items with graceful shapes and edges.
Place some vintage vases, boxes, whimsical lamps, and jugs on top of a scalloped console table. Place soft, cozy cushions on armchairs and dining chairs with curved cabriole legs.
Warm Neutrals
One painting and decorating tip we have to optimize the essence of the French country interior design style is to use a warm, neutral color palette. As with all the rest of our tips, softness is key.
Stick to muted shades of blue, pink, green, and yellow, as well as classic creamy whites. These colors painted on your walls, ingrained into your countertops, and blended in with your pretty upholstery, mix perfectly with weathered warm-toned wood.
Bring in some natural colors such as sunbaked ochre and deep brick red here and there for a pop of vibrancy to offset the modesty of the theme. And don’t forget to add the crucial gold accents! Give your guests a pleasant gold surprise in the form of artwork, mirror frames, and wall sconces.
Weathered Finishes
As mentioned previously, scour antique stores for weathered wooden furniture items with chipped paint and patina finishes. Or, if you’re a fan of DIY, you can distress your furniture yourself. This texturing brings visual interest to an otherwise neutral color palette.
Pink marble countertops in your kitchen have a prominent regality to them that balances out the weathering, but still aligns with the natural elements French country interior design style calls for. Add a lovely jute rug as well to incorporate more natural materials.
Another natural material you can easily incorporate is stone (for your floors, countertops, or a rustic fireplace). Use both stone and tile in your home to create the perfect balance.
Keep the wooden ceiling beams and trusses in your home’s architecture exposed and pair some wrought iron accents with your furniture items, and copper cookware to add more French character.
Delicate Details
Almost everything you touch in your French country-style home should be ornately detailed.
This includes your beautiful wooden furniture, your floor tiles, your walls, and your textiles. Choose vintage woodwork items and pretty floor tiles with delicate patterns. Get your hands on sweetly painted delicate designs on other furniture items, as well as your walls.
A common pattern used in French country interior design is toile. Toile is essentially figures of one color (imagine your soft pastels) painted on a white or cream background. Amazingly, toile can be paired with fun patterns and layered prints with stripes, sunflowers, gingham, checks, and small florals.
Concentrate on incorporating these and other whimsical patterns, such as roosters, damasks, and borders of provincial-style fabrics, with the neutral color scheme you’ve chosen.
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