Tips, Examples and Ideas on giving rooms a country, lodge, cottage or log cabin rustic decor theme. Learn to recognize good rustic decor.

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Your personal rustic decor style for interior decorating and how we can help

Rustic Interior Design Tips, Examples and Ideas for creating your own personal rustic decor style

Going Rustic :: What Interior Design Accents and Elements make up Rustic Decor? See some examples

"Fantasy Frames": What Forest Home Rustic Decor Art Prints look like in rustic frames to complement the interior decorating theme displayed in examples.

Forest Home Rustic Decor Art Prints not only make your room appear larger. It's like bringing the outdoors inside.

Bringing the outdoors in or the indoors, out, is one of those design elements that makes rustic theme design so easy to live with.

Rustic home decorating invites a relaxed, casual lifestyle. Developing a written theme plan to assist in decorating your home is a good place to start.

Getting your personal Rustic Decor Theme

What We'll Do

We will show you various styles of rustic room decorating for each room in a house, and you can then single out the styles you can relate to. Isolate the color schemes and carefully coordinate the colors of each accent element of your decor.

Rustic Interior Design Tips and Ideas for creating your own personal rustic decor style

Decorating comments to add to your "ideas" list:

Consider the color and style of any heirloom or "special" items you wish to incorporate into your total rustic style design.

Stay consistent on interior design colors, styles and materials to avoid a cluttered or patchwork look. For harmony, choose no more than three main colors and two neutral colors for accents.

Emphasize wood and leather: rustic decor means furniture in its natural wood colors and tones. Pine or oak are favorites.

Rustic themed furniture can be 'distressed' by history or you using sandpaper to create wear points.

Use quilts, blankets, pillows and even rugs to change the look of furniture. Try furniture slipcovers under the above elements for a temporary rustic look.

Below we've given you a few examples of rustic decor for various rooms in a home. Want more rustic interior room design examples? Click here.

Going Rustic :: What Interior Design Accents and Elements make up Rustic Decor?

See below for a few examples, taken from famous homes decorated in rustic cabin, lodge, western and mountain design themes. Note the accent pieces and decorative touches, and the colors and patterns. Professionally decorated homes have an interior design flow: see if you can spot the particular focus in the following images.

To get a sense of the size of the room pictured above, observe the height of the door compared to the ceiling height. Speaking of ceilings: note the bark between the beams.

Rustic Decor using Arts and Crafts, Mission Style Furniture

Rustic furniture style is simple and clean with the emphasis on function. Almost any furniture design fitting that description will lend itself successfully to rustic interior home decorating.

<< Recreation hall at Camp Pine Knot showing bark-covered beams, uncut stone fireplace, bark finished bureau, wood floor. Note the crossed snowshoes on either side of the fireplace.

Another, and more masculinely comfortable furniture design style found in living rooms, "great rooms", library, den or study of a home done in classic rustic decor is heavy leather upholstered club style furniture.

Leather furniture is at once luxurious, yet tough enough for everyday use; cleans easily (saddle soap), comfortable yet beautiful; understated and functional, providing a suitable rich, neutral background for more specialized rustic decor design elements.

"Get the Picture?"

Decorating rustic is easy with good examples! Browse through our examples of rooms and styles, then match your Rustic Interior Decor with Forest Home Rustic Decor Art Prints in your choice of frame.

Below are pictures of Forest Home Rustic Decor Art Prints in frames to match the cabin, Adirondack Lodge or Mountain Home decor shown above.

"Fantasy Frames" for Forest Home Rustic Decor Art Prints, Nature Scenes Our prints are sold unframed, hence the pictures below showing picture frames, are "Fantasy Frames".

We think our elemental, primitive illustration art prints look good in these birchbark and twig Adirondack decor inspired picture frames. Forest Home Rustic Decor Art Prints are simple in design, crisp and clean in execution and don't conflict with the beauty of the birch bark picture frame. Have a look:

Click on images to see that print's detail page.

Buy Forest Home Rustic Decor Art Prints -- buy all 3 prints for $49.95 plus $5.00 shipping

Rustic Decor: Art by Consensus

Learning about what makes rustic decor is essential to a well planned rustic interior design theme. Once the basic concept is understood, your imagination and flair will take care of the rest.

Forest Home Rustic Decor Art Prints enhance the darkest corners, complement a wide variety of frames and make a great rustic decor design element in wall decor with cheerful colors and simple, primitive illustration style.

Birch bark bureau :: rustic art as furniture

Home interior decorating terms like "rustic decor theme," "real rustic log cabin look", "country rustic appeal", etc., are tantalizing verbal snippets.

So, you might think, if that's a rustic decor living or great room, what does the rustic decorating style for the rest of the rooms in the house (bedroom, porch, kitchen, bath) look like?

Furthermore, is that really rustic style, or is it Martha's interpretation? or Regis'?

You're told "this is rustic" with no style authority.

Maybe, if you could see "real rustic interior design", you could come up with something better.

This, is your chance!

Kitchen Rustic Decorating is characterized by efficient placement of utensils and appliances for easy use and streamlining kitchen procedures.

Looking at "The Real Thing" Rustic, or, "What makes it Rustic?"

What we'd like to do is invite you to look at examples of classic, original rustic homes and rooms, real, authentic rustic interior design themes that are the touchstones of authenticity for the selected interior design style theme, whatever that may be: country, lodge, Adirondack, cabin, cottage, ranch, early American, North Eastern Maine, etc. Then:

Use your eyes: look at the pictures, read the descriptions, distill the information into a sense of the decorating style as it relates to your house's design elements and accent pieces you already own.

Develop your own signature decor style of the interior decorating theme you're interested in.

We'll give you our observations too.

Why do we do this?

Forest Home Rustic Decor Art Prints complement country, lodge, Adirondack, cabin, cottage, ranch, and early American home interior design styles and themes.

But rather than tell you ourselves, we'll let the interior room pictures of homes tell you in their "thousand words" how appropriate our landscape nature scenes of Moose, Cardinal and Bear Art Prints would be as wall decor accent elements in bath, kitchen, bedroom, living or great room, dining room and sun porch.

Ready to start looking at classic rustic design themes? Click a link or a room below!

Interior Design: Rustic Decor for Rooms:

Bringing the outdoors right into your

Living/Great Room,		Sunroom/Porch,
Bath,		Bedroom,
Kitchen,		Dining Room.
Den, library or study,