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Give Your Kitchen A Make-Over With A French Country Theme
Since the kitchen is often the heart of the
home, it makes sense to decorate your kitchen in an appealing and
comfortable style. One quick and easy way to spruce up a dated
kitchen is to decorate it with the French country decorating style.
Since turning your kitchen into a French country retreat is one of
the current trends in kitchen decorating, there are plenty of
wonderful accessories available.
Before you start to shop for your new French country kitchen, you
will need to select your color scheme. While the original French
country décor colors were blue and yellow, black and white or maroon
and white colors are now being used, as well. Personally, I still
prefer blue and yellow, but I like the traditional yellow kitchen
walls. I used a pale golden yellow on the upper half of my walls and
a darker golden yellow on the bottom half. The room looks bright and
cheery without being obnoxiously yellow. I use blue accents in the
room to complete the blue and yellow color scheme.
I bought new cabinets for my kitchen when I redecorated in the
French country style, but that is because the cabinets that were
there when I moved in were hand-built and weren't very well done.
They also were literally falling off the wall. If I would have had
sturdy cabinets that had usable shelving and the fronts were a bit
shabby, I would have painted most of them and knocked out the inside
panels of the rest and attached chicken wire to them instead. To do
this, you simply cut a piece of chicken wire so it is slightly
larger all around than the inside of the door. Then, bend the cut
edges under so that you won't end up cutting yourself on the sharp
edges. Finally, staple the wire to the inside of the door. Now, you
have given your cabinet door a country look and you can display some
of your favorite pottery, as well.
Once the cabinets are in place, it is time to fill your kitchen with
a French country ambience. Rooster accessories are a hot trend that
give your kitchen the right feel. I used a framed French country
rooster print on one wall and a few rooster statues on a shelf over
my kitchen doorway. A gold and blue rug with a rooster in the center
to the floor helped draw the room's colors and décor together.
To finish off the room, I added a valance to my window made with a
French country fabric print called moiré. I made matching seat
cushions for the kitchen table.
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