The countryside in the city
If you are unable to reach the countryside quickly or don’t have a house outside the city where you can spend the weekends away from the crazy crowds of the city, why not adopt these solutions to ensure that every return home is a return to nature?
Recreating the charm of the countryside in the city has never been easier with these little furnishing tips.
To ensure that the atmosphere takes on the charm of the country style, the first thing is to adopt simple materials, such as wood, to be used on the tables, chairs, furniture, exposed beams and ceilings. Always hot alternatives of their kind, recommended for a rustic touch to this style, are wrought iron, wicker, bricks and stone. Atmospheres of times gone by will make your environment welcoming also thanks to the colours. So on to soft colors such as light green, sage, pale pink or watery blue, so to speak the watercolor tones, which will give your home the right dose of naturalness and bucolic inspiration.
The atmosphere can be made even more authentic and original with antique furniture and touches, proud bearers of the signs of time, sturdy even if worn furniture, baskets, trunks, cupboards, benches, coat hangers, perfect accessories for every room in the house.
The countryside is also comfort and relaxation, there is nothing warmer than fabrics and the right upholstery for your home to envelop you in a familiar feeling. Plaids, cushions, carpets in different combinations with soft, simple colours, playing with textures and patterns. Flowers, paintings, lozenges, quilts, softness will reign supreme in the home and the environment will gain in style, increasingly resembling that country house you have always dreamed of.
A country kitchen to meet nature
We must not forget that the heart of a country house is certainly the kitchen, so let’s start from the stone base, preferably in neutral and warm tones, which gives warmth, and then move on to the solid wood floors and doors. Objects such as the dining table or the country style sideboard are also fundamental, preferably antique or recovered from an old farmhouse. The wood to be used should be a little damaged, for example to be used for the doors of the bathroom furniture, to be combined with rustic accessories, such as a beautiful vintage style tub, with worked feet and profiles at the edges.
The atmosphere and warmth also pass through the fireplace, a true sacred monster of the country house. If you cannot equip yourself with a fully functional one, there are more decorative fireplaces, those made of bioethanol.
And finally, green is something to remember as a real mantra, because there is no self-respecting country house without a touch of green. If you don’t have the space for a city garden, don’t despair, you can create a hanging vegetable garden on the terrace and at home you can enrich yourself with plants and flowers to give a refined touch to the rooms. To increase the bucolic belief, use brightly colored wildflowers to place in glass, tin or metal vases.
