Miniature English Cottages

In the previous post I had mentioned about various English collectables we can add to our kitchen or living room to give more like an English surroundings. Includes are beautiful wreaths we can hang on our doors, rocking chairs, copper pots n pans, painted ceramics,stencilling our walls with images like roosters or flowers as borders and the list goes on.

We can begin by collecting beautiful english cottages ranging from four to eight inches in sizes. Starts buying one or two pieces per month or as you like. Soon we can have our precious collections of English collectables by David Winter or Lilliput Lane cottages beautifully displayed on our favourite country wooden shelf

Country Home Decorating Tips and Ideas - Janice N Price

Please read some exerpts from Janice articles on English house decoration. She wrote some very interesting facts on country home decorations.

She quoted "Country home decorating is usually referred to as a "rustic" decorating style and can be created whether you live in a cottage style home, a mountain retreat home or a modern urban apartment. Your home is your castle and you can create the look and style of country homes no matter where you live.

Rustic country decor is about handcrafted objects and furnishings that connect back to nature. Rustic country décor can start in the kitchen with a large rectangular pine table, aged and weathered, partnered with ladderback chairs. Vintage wrought-iron or metal chandeliers above the table is appropriate for rustic décor lighting as well as hurricane and oil or kerosene lamps.

Vintage hardware in wrought-iron or metal is a great country home decorating idea and is available in many different styles and finishes. Use hutches and cupboards with open shelves and plate racks for displaying colored plates and dinnerware collections in earth tones, bone white, or blues and greens, glazed earthenware and glass jars.

Add a rustic butcher-block island and pots and pans made of copper or cast iron and simple in lines. Another popular country home idea is stenciling decorating themes such as roosters, chickens, apples or cows on antiqued wooden shelves, the border on the wall, or a rocking chair in the corner of the room. Use lots of baskets for storing logs for the fire, pine cones and needlework.

Country style living rooms start with bare or waxed wooden floors or stone materials combined with floor coverings such as wool oriental rugs for warmth and texture. Add a warm quilt or "throw" on the sofa, stenciling on the walls, and flower and wreath decorations.

Decorating rustic or cottage country homes include elements that are simpler, personal, comfortable, warm and inviting and can be created to express your personality no matter where your home is located.

Janice Price specializes in helping people find inspiring decorating ideas by publishing a series of articles on home decorating to share her 15 years of experience in the Interior Design Industry. A collection of home interior decorating ideas can be found on her website".

English Style Racks & Shelves

Home is where your hearth is. Remodeling it with an English house decoration style need lots of patience and basic understanding of concept and design. You are not going to build or modify your house into an English countryside house espesially if you are living at the 20th floor condominium or apartment in downtown New York, Paris, London or Tokyo. The view is quite alright for the city-dwellers. Its just not quite ideal to call it country living. But thats not what this post is all about. This post is all about English racks and shelves. Yes, we can own or build our English dreamhouse soon or later. If you are living in now, sharing some tips and ideas on decorations would be great.

Whatever your house looks like does not matter. We can adopt or preferably turn our living room into an English style living room. We can begin by decorating our wall with some English style racks & shelves. Many styles and colors to begin with. Just find what suit you the best. Look what I hang on my wall. Just some ideas.