Rural Style in Country House Interior

Nature and natural materials attract like a magnet to whole and morally mature people. The desire to live in the countryside is often due to these reasons, and an apartment cannot give this feeling to its owner.

It is a misconception that this is only a design direction, such an interior is a lifestyle. And it is so diverse and rich that it captivates at first glance and for life.

Country house in rural style: features of decoration

A rural house, remote from the noise, bustle and crowds of the city, is the dream of true connoisseurs of inner peace and beauty lovers. To emphasize the charisma of your home, fill it with the warm spirit of the countryside and enrich it with comfort, you need to properly create the interior and observe some conditions:

• never allow mixing of styles;
  
• do not overload the space with various details of the interior;
  
• make maximum emphasis on natural materials;
  
• the room should be bright and spacious;
  
• the entrance hall, kitchen and living room should be in the same style;
  
• household appliances and modern comfort should not conflict with the overall ambiance.
  

Design of a house in rural style should continue the building itself, enriching it. The interior implies mixing modern comfort with the warmth of a country estate or a rural cottage. And it should be as harmonious as possible. Achieving this is possible by avoiding extremes. First of all, you need to determine the depth of immersion in the theme.

If the entire rural house is decorated in one style, you will not have problems transitioning from one room to another. If you decide to dedicate this style to part of the house, or the kitchen, combine it with classicism or minimalism. Do not choose extremes, and do not make a house a decoration for a movie about the countryside in the 18th century - you will quickly get tired of such immersion, and modern things will look ridiculous.

The golden mean - furniture and textiles in unobtrusive, natural colors, wood, stone, simplicity of forms, household appliances and dishes in retro style. The interior will only benefit from this.

Decor that gives the house soul

A small cozy wooden house or family estate - a place where the family is drawn at any time, where guests love to gather. Its soul is hospitable hosts and lovely things that touch everyone's hearts. It is precisely thanks to the decor that the house gains its characteristics, and the owner's touch makes it alive.

Rural interiors are mostly associated with colorful and heterogeneous carpets, embroidered curtains and towels, walls "under logs". But it's not quite so. If you start to explore deeper, you will discover that you can choose a cottage or Provence interior style, but their essence is the same - a country estate where each room continues the previous one.

Design: Full House Design Studio

Features of textiles

The interior of a house in rural style needs soft fabrics, gentle draping lines of curtains, starched tablecloths and napkins. Textiles are a must, and the living room is their territory. Curtains, draperies, bedspreads, sofas, soft cushions for chairs, napkins - all should be subordinated to the overall ambiance.

Choose linen, cotton, wool - materials that flow with the hand. Colors close to natural ones will create a calm and warm atmosphere.

Do not forget about the tablecloth, it should be mandatory and match the curtains. A wooden table covered with a snow-white tablecloth is a symbol of bread-salt hospitality.

Soft cushions in the style of patchwork, like quilts or embroidered pillowcases, will only enhance the atmosphere of softness and comfort.

Kitchen and bathroom towels in pastel shades will add warmth to the kitchen and bathroom. Textile carpets laid on a wooden floor perfectly highlight the interior.

Abandon vibrant, trendy colors for modern style and base your choice on natural, natural tones continuing the natural ones. Modern textiles suit these purposes quite well.

Wood in the interior

The interior should be highlighted with wooden elements. Starting from the ceiling and ending with frames for photos and mirrors, wood can be delicate and elegant, or coarse and brutal design elements.

To create the spirit of a chalet, countryside, or Russian rural style, a high ceiling with exposed beams or beam imitation on painted ceiling, natural and simple furniture will fit into the rural interior. Coarse door frame finishing with cracked wood from time, wooden floor or laminate under a worn floor, wooden table will create the feeling of antiquity and quality. The countryside behind the walls should be felt inside.

Lighter directions such as Provence, peasant style include wooden decor but in elegant execution: wood is painted, lines are thin and more graceful, there are no coarse and large details. The interior plays with cute trinkets.

Frames for mirrors, photos, window and picture framing should be in one style. Properly selected furniture made of natural wood will only enhance the overall mood and complete the creation of a harmonious interior.

Rural motifs in main styles

A country house, properly decorated for life and relaxation, can be so individual that you will never encounter another interior that even slightly resembles it. Creating your own, understandable only to the owner of the rural style, is possible, the main thing is to define the direction. A well-structured interior, built step by step, will not allow breaking the general line.

Direction: Countryside

American farmers made a grand contribution to the formation of this style and interior. Simplicity and authenticity in decoration can bring the spirit of American shepherds' housing even into a Russian banker's house, and most importantly - the room will look dignified, even if simple.

Large window openings, leather, wood and stone, rough like a cowboy's hand.

Textiles in indigo shades with a hint of denim, and of course bright interior details. This can be seemingly out-of-place household appliances in a vibrant color, soft cushions for sofas, mirrors or bathroom cabinets.

Furniture in such a house should be chosen exclusively natural.

The main thing is to choose one item that will catch the eye. Combining three colors, or a tonal transition from dark to light, will add some intrigue to the room design. Rural chic is guaranteed for the owner of an interior with a photo.

Small and very functional cottage: 92 square meters of comfort

Russian rural style

If you think it's easiest to replicate the Russian style at home, you're deeply mistaken. Houses in Russian rural style are among the most interesting projects. Coarse wooden decoration and linen tablecloths won't create the ambiance if the main conditions are not taken into account:

1. the entire house should be decorated in the Russian style, or only separate structures should be used, for example, a summer house;
   
2. a house with interior in Russian style will look deliberately fairy-tale if you overload the design with authentic details;
   
3. minimalism is the best friend of a house in the style of Russian countryside;
   
   

Minimal wood processing, textiles with coarse weaving, deliberately simple lines, furniture in retro style - this will bring the rural house closer to the desired and make the Russian style come alive with all its colors.

Design: Varvara Zelenetskaya

Style: Chalet

A hunting cabin - a place where the feeling of unity with nature is maximized. A country house in the style of a chalet speaks about remoteness from the city, peaceful lifestyle, measured pace and stability.

A chalet can be executed both in a wooden or brick house. Main lines - rural design, easily combined with modern furniture in classical or minimal style.

Here you can safely combine a wooden table and stone countertop, but you need to be careful with the accent on bright details - they are always unnecessary in this direction. The house will breathe freshness if you don't overload it with heavy and complicated furniture.

Direction: Provence

Sunlight reflections on walls, pastel tones, cute trinkets and floral prints. A rural interior in the style of Provence deserves to be one of the priorities in choosing a country house's ambiance.

Rural motifs of French depth are quite difficult to properly distribute in the interior - you can get carried away and end up with a rural underground, or on the contrary, not enough of a full rural image.

White color dominates in Provence, and soft shades, natural wood. Gentle fabrics coexist with coarse ironwork, wool.

Small-sized colored tiles, glazed brick, whitewashed beams, painted country floors. All this is framed by curtains and napkins with floral prints. A gentle union of coarseness and elegance.

Rural style in the overall interior of a country house

If the entire interior of a rural house is strictly maintained in one stylistic direction, the owners will not have dissonance when moving from one room to another, it will be easier to choose decor items and properly furnish the rooms. The house will only benefit from this. Whether you choose Russian style or Provence, you won't be at a disadvantage, the main thing is not to mix the design of one style with another.

Entrance hall decor

The style of rural interior decoration has even reached the threshold, from which an entering person gets information about the owner. Such a house is an open book, and the entrance hall is its business card. The interior inside is just as beautiful as outside.

Simplicity of decoration, geometric lines, bright and spacious room - all that is necessary for complete immersion in the rural style. Bright details, such as carpets, shelves, chair drapery, will add variety to the simplicity.

Design: Prosperity Studio

Kitchen and tableware as decor elements

The kitchen is the focus of style and its merger with modern comfort. The interior of a kitchen in rural style needs to be planned so that household appliances, which in this room are numerous, easily fit into the overall picture. Here comes the rescue of built-in appliances, which can be hidden by kitchen facades, and the interior, thanks to this, does not suffer.

The stove should be the center, and its choice is the beginning from which to build the surrounding atmosphere. Natural wood, stone, textured fabrics, taps and furniture elements in copper and bronze tones. Here it is better to avoid chrome details.

Tableware, which is better placed on open or glass shelves, should continue the reliability and stability of the entire kitchen. Cast iron and bronze fit perfectly into a rural ambiance.

Napkins and tablecloths are better to take out when setting the table, which in the main time is better kept open. Wooden or painted countertop - a worthy choice. The Russian rural style clearly emphasizes the large bread-salt table.

Design: Marina Kutepova

How to arrange the living room

A room where family spends time together should have a center. The house gives this right to the living room. This is either a large rural table or a hearth - fireplace. The center of the room needs to be highlighted. For this, wool carpets in calm colors and well-placed sofas are ideal.

Creating a living room interior in the rural style is the second point after the entrance hall, as they are usually adjacent rooms. Do not be stingy with light shades, make the ceiling higher or decorate it with false beams. Simple and comfortable furniture, wooden frames for pictures and mirrors, soft shades of curtains will add the right effect to the rural ambiance.

For a living room interior in the rural style combined with a kitchen decorated in the same way, sometimes it is enough, and many do just that, allowing other rooms to subordinate themselves to the styles chosen by the bedroom owners.

Design: Marina Kutepova

Decorating the bedroom

Many, picturing a rural bedroom interior, see quilted quilts, pillows arranged like matryoshkas, embroidered curtains. You can do it that way too. But there are many options, and now it is quite easy to implement rural minimalism for a bedroom in quite a colorful execution.

Simplicity of the wooden bed accommodates a quality orthopedic mattress, warm shades of curtains, additional curtains, wooden elements on the walls or block-house, walls painted in beige tones. The room and furniture are functional.

The interior of a bathroom in the rural style will complement the bedroom.

Children's room

An interior in the style of a country house will allow creating a children's room, perfectly suited for a child's residence. In this room, maximum light and space - the foundational idea. Natural materials and fresh country air - what parents can give a child. Simplicity of decoration, light decor, the creation of which is most likely taken over by the child himself. A children's room in rural style does not need plastic furniture or artificial coverings - everything inside should breathe nature, just like the house itself.

Design: Maxim Noda

Fireplace - comfort and living warmth

A rural wooden house with a live fire has soul. The family will always be drawn to the hearth in the evening, and children will always return under the rural parental bed.

A fireplace in the living room or bedroom is a frequent owner of the rural style, around which the overall decor forms. The room with it becomes authentic.

Log fireplace, electric fireplace or faux fireplace - the choice is enormous. When the wind howls outside, you will not just be in warmth but feel the charm of live fire.

Design: Andrei Volkov

When to use this style

People who value the scent of natural wood, living with open windows and open curtains will sooner or later come to choose the rural style. An apartment becomes irrelevant.

Unity with nature, return to the roots, rural colorfulness will be appreciated by people who have inner harmony or are striving for it.

Friends will always be drawn to your house, and the evening spent with family in the living room will become truly restorative, just like sleep in a bedroom lovingly arranged by you.

Design: Pavel Alexeyev

Design: Marina Kutepova

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