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If you are looking to add a bit of country to your home interior this spring, but don’t have a large budget, you will be happy to know that a few well-placed accents can go a long way. This article looks at the key ways in which you can create your own country home interior with a contemporary twist.

Window Treatments

One of the easiest ways to achieve a cozy cottage feel is to change the window treatments. Try replacing a contemporary curtain with a sheer panel drape with a long, flowing valance on a wrought iron curtain pole. Country cottages bring the beauty of the outdoors inside, so forgo the blinds and heavy draperies to let the sunshine into your living area. Look for inexpensive wrought iron pieces to coordinate with the wrought iron curtain pole. A wrought iron candelabra is a great addition to a country sitting area.

Décor and more

Another quick and easy way to transform a room into a country space is to update the pillows on the settee. If your goal is to create a cozy cottage look, consider bold floral patterns with light colors and coordinating stripes or blocks.

Look for inexpensive artwork at discount stores to replace older pieces that may not fit into the new look. Country framing doesn’t have to cost a fortune. Simple frames made from old wood add a touch of whimsy.

Walls and flooring

Consider repainting walls if you currently have a dark color in place. Using light-colored settee covers can also brighten up the room. Country homes typically have light colors and hues of white scattered throughout the living space.

If you have hardwood flooring covered by a modern rug, consider replacing the rug or doing away with the rug altogether. Browse flea markets or local artisans for area rugs with a shabby chic look.

Bring the Outdoors In

If you have a garden, be sure to bring in a variety of cuttings to scatter around the room in vases. But don’t have to stop there. Bring some outdoor furniture into your living area as well. A worn rocking chair from out back can add country appeal to any room. Consider adding flower boxes to outside windows as well. You will enjoy watching bees and ladybugs work as you lounge inside. Another way to bring nature closer to you is to place a bird feeder near the window.

You don’t need to be a master carpenter to build furniture and other wood projects, what you need are quality DIY woodworking plans. Seriously, with the right plans and maybe a little bit of video instruction, if you have basic woodworking skills you can build just about anything.

Have you been to the furniture store lately. Even the cheap stuff costs a lot of money.

Case in point; we needed a new bed and wanted a Captains Bed. You know the kind with the storage underneath. We shopped around one Saturday and went to 5 different stores. The least expensive Captains Bed we could find was seventeen hundred dollars! And it was not even very nice.

It was mostly particle board and the only hardwood was on the trim on the drawer fronts and some on the head board and foot board.

We did see one bed we really loved but it was four thousand dollars! Sure we could have bought it, on credit and paid for it for three years or whatever – but we did not want to do that.

Instead I took a picture with my phone and my thinking was that as long as I had a picture I could build it. Well that is not entirely accurate.

It did not take long for me to figure out that I was not going to figure this out with out help. I consulted one of my friends who is a professional carpenter and he was very quick to tell me that what I needed was a plan.

What I needed was some DIY woodworking plans, but where to get them? I went to the hardware store and there were some books but they were hard to understand.

I was ready to give up when some guy I did not even know started talking to me at the book store (where I was looking for woodworking plans), and told me to try searching online.

Sure enough I found a whole bunch of them. This brought up another problem, which ones were any good, which ones do I buy?

So what I did was my home work. I started reading all reviews and going to forums and checking each product for what I wanted. What I wanted was easy to use and read DIY woodworking plans. Plans that were down-loadable but from an actual company that I could call to get customer service if I needed it, oh and some video instruction of some sort would be nice to.

The good news is that they are out there. There is definitely a couple of very good companies offering these types of products.

This timeless classic is to have the wooden closets, wood is the protagonist in most closets; more closets are more colors in the decoration of homes.

Today we played much with the colors in our home, are a form of change and give a personal touch to your furniture, every day becomes more fashionable and we accompany this design style.

Color in closets used primarily to decorate the bathrooms, since they are the spaces that give more playing time to match the colors, but lately, the mirrors are taking over the doors of these units.

As for the bedroom the most used are wooden closets either cherry or ocher color, and is it blends perfectly with all the colors and see matches other furniture in the room. Also mirrors are widely used in doors and cabinets become the protagonists.

There are those who dare to decorate the room with furniture colors, bearing in mind the colors that predominate in the room for attaining the right mix or elsewhere, these cabinets are dressed, inside, with shelves and functional bars for racks. We also welcome modules located on one side of the closet, filled with drawers for storing clothes and linen.

In short, we can find on the market cabinets of different types, materials, models and styles to match any type of home decor.

The dining room is difficult to decorate because it is leading the table, chairs and a couple of accessories, if we have space. So the key to give it a nice touch is definitely buy furniture with the style that we want the room and in general the house, if the dining room is open.

However, there are some other things you can do and I will explain some tips for decorating dining after the jump.

* Add an area rug to match the colors of the room. Carpet must be sized to make it all the space you occupy the chairs and table are used, even when one of the chairs move a step. However, there must be some normal floor between the wall and the carpet to give it some texture to the floor.
* Add a centerpiece that can be flowers, candles, a glass container with both, or whatever you want. It can be very creative with this and it goes well with the style you’re using the furniture.
* If you have empty walls complete with artwork, a painting, or if you want something more practical to put some shelves to put stuff, whatever you want there.
* If you are having guests add before they get all the dishes, cutlery, glasses, etc, to make it look as if to say “come to eat here.” This is very handy for all the time since, but at least during visits is a good idea.
* Do not forget to add light. For dining it is best to use a rather large lamp on the milieu that gives light to everyone. If you can make it adjustable light to give more or less would be even better because you can give a touch of mystery and intimacy that would complete the whole look of the room.