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Bringing Tuscan Style to your Living Room
By Jessica Stockton
Decorating a living room in the Tuscan style is a natural fit. With comfortable décor and earthen tones, you can create a room that is wonderful for you, your family and your friends. The color palette for a Tuscan room is pulled straight from the earth. There are warm hues of yellows, greens and terracotta, accented with darker burgundy and brown. You can brighten the palette or mute it, and the room design will work equally well. With rich textures and substantial furniture pieces, using the Tuscan style to decorate your living room adds a lively yet lived-in quality to your living room. Finding Inspiration
When you are looking for inspiration for your Tuscan living room you can find it in any number of places: A painting of a beautiful Italian countryside, a bottle of wine or even a hand thrown piece or pottery. You can pull your color palette from your inspiration piece and repeat it throughout the room for a very balanced effect. Tuscan on a Budget
Because the Tuscan style is comfortable and somewhat rustic, it can be a very budget friendly way to decorate. This style is rich in texture and color, and even worn furniture can be incorporated into your design. For example, if you have some older furniture that is a little tired looking, you can liven it up with a simple rag rubbing paint technique and apply a warm shade of paint or stain to the wood. If the upholstery has seen better days, use a slipcover to give it a fresh new look, and you have a perfect piece of furniture to incorporate into your Tuscan living room design. Terracotta Tiles
Tuscan is synonymous with earthen and terracotta. Pots and tiles in rustic terracotta are all key players in a Tuscan style room. While an authentic Tuscan room would likely have terracotta floors, you can blend your wood or carpeted floors into your design by using a colorful area rug to tie the floor color to the rich wall colors. By adding area rugs in the rich, warm Tuscan hues, you create a cohesive look throughout the room. As you add the area rugs, remember that you are creating little gathering places around them. The furniture layout in a Tuscan styled room is intimate and conversational. Since your furniture pieces are substantial, you may want to have a few of the chairs on casters so that you can easily move them from one conversational area to another. Wrought Iron Accents
A key element in the Tuscan style, wrought iron is used as an accent throughout the room. It can show up anywhere from a full-blown chandelier to drawer pulls on furniture. Generally you will want to include some wrought iron accessories in the room whether they are a piece of artwork, candleholders or wall sconces. The touch of wrought iron in the room will add an authentic feel to your Tuscan design. Final Touches
Since the Tuscan style is very tactile and textured, you will want to include a lot of interesting textural pieces: From richly colored woven tapestries hanging on the walls to soft, chenille throws over the back of the couch. And for a final touch bring some plants into the room. Freshly cut flowers in a terracotta vase or a small, indoor potted herb garden all hold the essence of the Tuscan heart and style, and there really is no better look for any living room than the warm and inviting Tuscan style.
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Good information and well written, Jessica.
A warm and inviting home is a great place to be after a hard days work.
Thanks for sharing.
Frederick
From your description I was envisioning something not at all like your picture. I was thinking more along the lines of our local Mexican restaurant. I definitely wasn't expecting white walls, ceramic tile, glass picture frames with no pictures, no curtains on the windows let alone tapestries, and sliding glass-metal framed doors. Are you sure this it the right picture?
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