To help you decide which French bedroom design style works best for you, check out these
examples of country French bedrooms in France - including a number of
French designer bedrooms:
Make one piece the STAR. Show it off against a plain backdrop: a fine gilt chair against
monochrome walls, and elegant iron beds dressed in crisp, white matelassé.
Obviously, you could just buy a French provincial bedroom set, and you'd be done.
But there's a drawback - it's not easy to produce a 'French' feel that way.
Country French interior design has a creative, very individual edge (at least in France).
So try and avoid the matchy-matchy, 'right-out-of-the-catalog' look as much as you can.
Combine unexpected pieces,
find beauty in strange places, and add a personal touch to your French bedroom design.
In other words, don't match all of the furniture! Instead,
combine an antique armoire with a seriously unglamorous, modern platform bed (sans headboard or footboard);
hang fine curtains from a superbly elegant bead crown, down around the head of the aforesaid
plain platform bed;
use shelving for storage & hide it behind a gorgeous antique silk curtain;
pair an exuberantly ornate Louis XV bed with white walls, white minimalist furniture, and
simple distressed-gold frames on the walls;
combine fine and shabby, artsy and
natural, new and old items - this is one
of the most important 'rules' of French bedroom decorating!
Once you've got the basics working, stir in some personal, fun, unexpected items:
a collection of French things, like
paintings/photos/etchings/book jackets/maps/wine or food labels/fabric swatches - anything you can frame
or hang on the wall!
French country bedroom design doesn't need Toile de Jouy. But
Decorating With Toile can be
great fun!
Finally, check out French
Country Curtains, too - a perfect complement to go with country French bedroom design ideas.
Neutral Color Schemes - The
Book: Learn about using neutral color palettes in your French country bedroom design
(and everywhere else in the house, too!) Understand what makes
neutral color schemes look their best, and what happens when you inject 'real' color into neutral color palettes.
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