• Many people are drawn to the rustic life.Country image by Maxim Prikhodko from Fotolia.com
  
  Country primitive style decorating is described as a hybrid of the cute cabin look and the rugged hunting lodge look. A home adorned in the country primitive style balances "rough" decorative elements, like bearskin rugs and rusted antique lanterns, with softer elements, like sculpted animals and oversize throw pillows robed in blue flannel.
  
  

Tools

• You may find antique tools at a flea market.flea market image by Luisafer from Fotolia.com
  
  Since the country primitive style doesn't necessarily lend itself to typical decorating touches like framed Picasso prints, find your accents in an unusual place---the attic (or an antique store, depending upon your resources and budget). Pull out old-time tools and accessories, such as a washboard, rusted shovel, horse bridle, yoke for a plow, butter churn, milk pail, moonshine jug and almanac. Hang tools in artful arrangements on the walls, grouped by usage theme, such as horse, garden and kitchen. Use items that are less hanging-friendly, like moonshine jugs, as accents on the floor and shelves.
  
  

Milk Bottle Mantle

• Small dairies may sell you bottles in bulk.three antique milk bottles image by Scott Williams from Fotolia.com
  
  Arrange antique or antique-style glass milk bottles on your fireplace mantle. This type of arrangement also makes a simple yet pleasing arrangement on shelves. Experiment with decorating the bottles. For example, drop a single fresh-cut flower in each bottle, or use them as holders for tall taper candles.
  
  

Primitive Skills Art

• Old traps make slightly gruesome decorations.trap image by Kotov from Fotolia.com
  
  Buy or find an antique book that illustrates primitive skills, like trapping, skinning and lighting a fire with flint. Razor out individual pages with illustrations and frame them. Scatter throughout the house to create a subtly unified look. Use a book in poor condition, as many people (rightfully) frown upon cutting up a pristine antique book. Alternately, rather than using an original book, make high-quality copies of the pages on sturdy paper and frame those. Or print illustrated pages from a Project Gutenberg e-book, like "Camp Life in the Woods and the Tricks of Trapping and Trap-Making," circa 1881.