Whether you're decorating a guest room, a cottage or your entire home in a country dcor theme, there are so many craft ideas you can use to obtain this result. Country crafts add a beautiful charm to any home. It incorporates handcrafted items, lovely old world charm furniture and colors that are relaxing and welcoming.
Using the colors found in nature, natural browns, greens and reds found within leaves and trees, a country feel is achievable in many crafts.
Here are some craft items you can use to decorate your home in a country style.
FURNITURE
Your main items of furniture that will create a country feel would be the bed and the wardrobes within the room. Placed around your main furniture in living areas and dining areas, you can also create crafted furniture to add to the country feel of the home.
~Distressed and Painted Furniture
You could use an old toy box or storage box to create a country feel to the home. Ideas include painting flowers, painted hearts, distressed timber and the use of flower patterns on old furniture.
Including timber frames around pictures also creates a country feel and even room dividers that have a floral fabric insert and timber frame.
~Antiques
Using antiques within your home can also create a country feel. A great craft idea that will become a centerpiece to any home is using an old Singer sewing machine and painting it in old world colors. You could also paint raggedy Ann and Andy designs on it depending on how crafty you are.
If you can locate a wool loom in your travels, this can also be painted to add to a country feel of a home.
Other antiques you can use are old bottles and jugs that were used centuries ago.
STITCHED PICTURES
Many country crafts use a lot of calico in their designs. This is especially true for country stitchery crafts. These are cheap and easy to make, yet create such a lovely craft that many people will admire them.
Calico can be died in tea bags to give it an old look and feel. Stitches used to create pictures or words are usually performed in straight stitch. Using simple colored threads such as dark brown, green and red creates lovely stitch pictures.
Head into your local craft store and obtain a kit for creating your stitch picture. Many can contain words and sayings, but others have pictures.
PILLOWS
Making a pillow for display is very simple to do. When you use floral fabrics or padded fabrics in neutral colors, then adorn them