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Lanterns can add a quick and authentic touch to country decorating both inside and outside of your home. Just hanging a lantern at your entrance or doorway can do quite a bit to set the tone, even before your guests come inside. If the lantern’s style evokes a classic country style, your home will exude a warm country welcome.

Burgundy Bedside Lantern

Lanterns are functional and attractive on patios and decks or even in the garden. A soft glowing light from an attractive lantern does a lot to create an intimate atmosphere in these outdoor spaces. This kind of diffused light softens shadows and creates a relaxing atmosphere. However, if you want to liven up your outdoor space, consider a lantern with a brighter light. The same principal applies indoors. A soft light creates a relaxed environment and a brighter light livens up the room. The choice you make will determine the overall feel of the room.

While lanterns were first used for practical purposes only, creating a certain ambiance is the most common use of lanterns today. Fortunately, there is a wide selection of lanterns available, and you have many options for using lanterns for country decorating. From a barn lantern to a carriage style lantern to a bedside lantern, each style lends a unique look. The finishing touch of the perfect lantern can tie together your country sampler of furniture, country curtains, braided rugs, and other country accessories.

Whether your look is farmhouse, old world, European country, or just plain cozy, lanterns can enhance your individual country themes. Charming and appealing, an appropriate lantern supplies both light and decorating magic.

Country décor is gaining a presence in 2012 design trends. From sweetly quirky patterns to charmingly chunky textures, this is an excellent time for fans of country decorating. There’s a cozy new trend for every room in the house, and the bathroom is no exception.

Barcelona Braided Rug

A lovely country sampler feature adds a touch of style to your bathroom, just as comfy country quilts add charm to a room when placed on a bed or the back of a sofa. A beautifully woven rug provides physical and visual warmth to an otherwise cold floor.

Rustic, natural-fiber country curtains provide privacy while welcoming filtered light into your bathroom’s country decorating scheme. Whether warding off drafts or swaying softly in a spring breeze, these enchanting window treatments can pull together all the elements of your bathroom’s country décor.

Country Cats Coordinates

Bathroom coordinates such as toothbrush holders, soap dispensers, and waste baskets are essential for bringing together a country décor that’s fresh but classic. Rugs, country curtains, towels, shower curtains and wall or cabinet stencils offer easy ways to introduce these elements into your bathroom country decorating plans.

It’s easy to get caught up in the casual beauty of country quilts and other large pieces when decorating your home. Don’t forget to add accessories and other details that make a house inviting. Scent is one of the first things a person notices when entering a home. There’s nothing like a luscious scent to accent your bathroom’s country theme. The smell of a freshly baked apple pie or oatmeal cookies is the perfect accompaniment to a cozy country bathroom. Or try the crisp, clean scent of fresh linen to invoke memories of Grandma’s laundry on the line.

How do you plan to add new country elements to your bathroom this year?

Country décor is notable for its rustic style and warmth, and the cheerful glow of a welcoming fireplace adds to the appeal. Whatever its style, a fireplace is the focal point of any room, serving as a gathering place for family and friends. Traditional fireplaces are increasingly giving way to the convenience of gel and electric fireplaces, which are cleaner and more convenient than their wood-burning counterparts.

Gel fireplaces are both attractive and efficient. These fireplaces use clean-burning alcohol gel to produce flames and the pleasant crackling sound associated with traditional log-wood fires. Each can of environmentally friendly gel fuel provides 2 ½ to 3 hours of flames.

Gel fireplaces can operate in areas where wood fireplaces will not work. These fireplaces require neither chimneys nor venting, and they do not produce smoke, soot or dangerous popping embers. Efficient gel fireplaces convey the ambiance of a traditional wood-burning fireplace without the mess of dirty ashes. The handsome wood mantels are a beautiful addition to any country decorating scheme, complementing the rustic charm of a country sampler, beautiful country quilts and cozy country curtains.

Appealing electric fireplaces require only an electrical outlet to provide a warm glow to any room. These efficient fireplaces, available in a variety of sizes and styles, vent all the heat they produce straight into the room. Electric fireplaces also work to keep the air inside your home healthy and safe because they produce no pollutants or harmful emissions.

Electric fireplaces are portable and suitable for both wood and carpeted flooring and can be safely positioned against painted and wallpapered walls. They provide welcome relief from upkeep, eliminating the need to haul wood to keep them burning and the nuisance of regular chimney cleaning. Check out the attractive wood mantels that are available in a variety of styles to complement the down-home appeal of rustic country décor.

Decorating your home for various holidays throughout the year is the perfect way to get in the holiday spirit and create an atmosphere that welcomes your friends, family members and guests to join in on the celebration. Whether you are decorating for the Fourth of July, Thanksgiving or Halloween, adding a touch of country décor is simple and fun, and always results in a warm and welcoming visual display.

Our I Love America Flag & Mail Wrap

The Fourth of July is one of the many holidays that go hand in hand with patriotic and country décor. From adorning your bed with star-covered country quilts to decorating your front porch with a Fourth of July flag teeming with rustic appeal, there is positively no end to the decorating ideas that come with this particular holiday. If your home is already decorated with country curtains and rugs, you might consider adding a few Fourth of July-themed throw pillows, coordinating tableware and wooden country candle holders in a rustic red color. These are simple touches that will transform your country home into a display of patriotism with red, white and blue.

Halloween and Thanksgiving both lend themselves well to country décor. You can indulge in seasonal decorations that celebrate autumn and harvest times and use these decorations interchangeably for each fall holiday. When the weather begins to get colder, it will be the perfect time to bring out your country quilts or purchase a new one to add to your collection. Displaying a quilt with autumn colors brings warmth to any room and is a great way to help transition your country home decorations from the lighter colors of spring and summer into the rich, warm tones of autumn.

Pumpkin Decorations

This is also a great time to switch to country curtains in fall and winter colors. Incorporate natural elements, such as gourds, into your country autumn décor to bring a bit of the outdoors in, and keep in mind that investing in high-quality pumpkin decorative items is an ideal way to have lasting decorations for both Halloween and Thanksgiving on hand each year.

A country sampler for each holiday is another easy way to switch up your home’s décor throughout the year. The same is true of a decorative arrow with changeable holiday signs that can be easily switched out as each new holiday approaches.

What are your must-have country décor items for each season?

It’s easy to enhance your country décor by adding scented candles to any room. You can choose candles that match the color of your rooms, or you can try to match the scents to the overall feel of the rooms. Country kitchens are warm, cozy and always smell wonderful. Naturally, you want a candle that not only blends in with its surroundings but also smells comforting as well. For example, a Cookie Tin scented candle would be perfect in a kitchen that features bright country curtains on the windows and braided rugs on the floor. By burning this candle, you can have the scent of freshly baked cookies without all the work. You can also place a scrumptious cake candle on your kitchen table. These candles look like a mound of fluffy frosting, and if you choose a scent like Butter Cream or Cinnamon Bun, your entire home will smell heavenly.

Our Butter Cream Cake Candle

Pillar candles look fantastic in the living room, and their soft light can fill the entire area with a warm glow. If your living room has country quilts on the sofa and a country sampler on the wall, you will need candles to complete this rustic look. Flameless pillar candles are a popular choice because they are a safe alternative to an open flame. A scent like Cinnamon or Mocha would bring just the right amount of flavor to your living space and would not be too overpowering. Jar candles would also work well in your country living room. You can create a subtle aroma with Creamy Vanilla or Juicy Apple, which are classic scents that pair well with country décor.

What candle scents do you love to keep in your home?

Country décor is the ideal décor for a cozy home. Country colors, textures and patterns create a warmer living space than almost any other style. At its heart, country style is family oriented. It is the kind of décor people associate with friendly gatherings and family fun.

Candle sleeves go well with other home-style country accessories. In addition to having seasonal and holiday-inspired designs, they offer a splash of color and texture for the bric-a-brac shelf or mantel. Pair them with a base and flameless candle. Flickering candle light adds color and animation to any room.

Our Pure Vanilla Sleeve

Country quilts come in all imaginable color combinations and styles. They are perfect for bedroom use, but work equally well as chair and couch covers. You can also display quilts by hanging them on a wall for a focal piece or by using quilt ladders. Quilts also functions as excellent throws for cold winter evenings. Coordinating throw pillows enhance the decorative pattern. Patchwork is guaranteed to look friendly and welcoming in any room.

Few things add a warm and homey touch to a room like curtains. Without curtains, a home is only a house. Country curtains come in a variety of styles. Prints are in plaids, ginghams and calicos. These simple patterns with warm colors and fluffy edges combine to create a comfortable dressing for room windows.

Concord Swag

No wall of family pictures is complete without at least one country sampler. These can be complicated patterns in cross stitch or as simple as a bit of muslin embroidered with a beloved saying or quote. Like all handwork, samplers give a touch of handmade imperfection and personality to a room.

Wood and wicker coordinate well with soft country furnishings. Natural colors add to the overall warm affect. Prominent wood grain soothes the eye and the rough weave of wicker adds a dimension of texture to room décor that is impossible to achieve with other materials.

Adding a little bit of country to home décor brings in warmth like nothing else can. Country décor is filled with color, pattern and texture, all of which are known for softening the hard edges of a modern room. Country motifs are the images that people cling to when they think of a cozy home interior.