Transform your dining space with Tuscan-style decor to bring home the warm hospitality of the Mediterranean.
Capture the feel of an ancient Tuscan villa by roughly plastering your walls or giving them a stucco finish. Add a hand-painted wall mural depicting vineyards in rich colors or even incorporating wall niches and rustic statuary. Create the atmosphere of the beautiful Tuscan countryside with yellows, browns, greens and reds in your palette.
Tuscan style furniture can range from an informal simple look to a more formal design. It can be fashioned from iron, distressed wood or fine hardwoods with accents of copper and iron. For an inviting dining space, choose a dining table in dark-stained chestnut or walnut. Fine hardwood to common rustic woods like cypress, fir, chestnut and poplar are also used widely used. Wrought iron tables with straight or gently curved legs, topped with wood, tile or marble are also appropriate for this decorating style.
Reinforce your Tuscan theme with the use of Majolica dinnerware. Choose hand-painted dinnerware with traditional motifs like roosters or serene hillside dwellings to add charm to your dining table. You can find plates with patterns of fruit and bright patterns to use for your main dish plates. If your main dishes are set against a golden background, complement them with smaller plates in bright yellow and green. Tall square glasses for drinking and a variety of wine glasses are essential to complete your Tuscan dinnerware. Include terracotta pottery into your dinnerware for a signature countryside feel.
Choose table linens that work well with your color scheme. Choose table linens in spice colored tones to bring in muted, earthy colors with just a hint of gold for a metallic glint. Opt for stripes for a classic touch or select textured fabrics in solid colors like ecru or sage green and top with table runners in rusty red or cinnamon. Table linens with a subtle floral print can add color and act as a softer counterpoint to the other design elements. Place a large area rug beneath the table for warmth and to offset the hue of the table linen.
Decorating with the Tuscan theme can be comforting, stylish and welcoming decor for your dining space.
Authors Profile: Martin Pitt is a certified interior designer and runs his own interior decoration consultancy. Martin especially loves decorating a home in wooden furniture and believes that nothing gives a home as warm and cozy a touch as all-wood furniture and decor.
Martin loves reading up on new design ideas, and has a special interest in space saving techniques. Here he writes about dinnerware and table linens.
Capture the feel of an ancient Tuscan villa by roughly plastering your walls or giving them a stucco finish. Add a hand-painted wall mural depicting vineyards in rich colors or even incorporating wall niches and rustic statuary. Create the atmosphere of the beautiful Tuscan countryside with yellows, browns, greens and reds in your palette.
Tuscan style furniture can range from an informal simple look to a more formal design. It can be fashioned from iron, distressed wood or fine hardwoods with accents of copper and iron. For an inviting dining space, choose a dining table in dark-stained chestnut or walnut. Fine hardwood to common rustic woods like cypress, fir, chestnut and poplar are also used widely used. Wrought iron tables with straight or gently curved legs, topped with wood, tile or marble are also appropriate for this decorating style.
Reinforce your Tuscan theme with the use of Majolica dinnerware. Choose hand-painted dinnerware with traditional motifs like roosters or serene hillside dwellings to add charm to your dining table. You can find plates with patterns of fruit and bright patterns to use for your main dish plates. If your main dishes are set against a golden background, complement them with smaller plates in bright yellow and green. Tall square glasses for drinking and a variety of wine glasses are essential to complete your Tuscan dinnerware. Include terracotta pottery into your dinnerware for a signature countryside feel.
Choose table linens that work well with your color scheme. Choose table linens in spice colored tones to bring in muted, earthy colors with just a hint of gold for a metallic glint. Opt for stripes for a classic touch or select textured fabrics in solid colors like ecru or sage green and top with table runners in rusty red or cinnamon. Table linens with a subtle floral print can add color and act as a softer counterpoint to the other design elements. Place a large area rug beneath the table for warmth and to offset the hue of the table linen.
Decorating with the Tuscan theme can be comforting, stylish and welcoming decor for your dining space.
Authors Profile: Martin Pitt is a certified interior designer and runs his own interior decoration consultancy. Martin especially loves decorating a home in wooden furniture and believes that nothing gives a home as warm and cozy a touch as all-wood furniture and decor.
Martin loves reading up on new design ideas, and has a special interest in space saving techniques. Here he writes about dinnerware and table linens.
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