Country Style: Home Décor and Rustic Crafts from Chandeliers to Coffee Tables, Bedcovers to Bulletin Boards

By Anna Örnberg

A beautiful, rustic home isn’t hard to create. With a splash of color, some pieces that pop, and a little bit of inspiration, even the most standard unit can be flipped into a country haven. Try elegant whites, industrial details, grandiose patterns, or some shabby chic. It’s fun, easy to accomplish, and the results will make you proud.

Liven up your space with such projects as:

Vintage silhouette art
Antique book decor
Military bed covers
Door frame bulletin boards
Wallpapering, crocheting, decoupage, and more!

So take a quick trip to the flea market, the thrift store, or even the atticit’ll trigger the impulse to decorate! Plus, crafting and decorating is the best form of stress-relief. Paint, sew, sand, sculptwork with your hands to clear your mind and make your home beautiful in the process.

Featuring patterns, step by steps, and over 100 photos, Country Style is the perfect how-to for decorators of all experience levels and with any type of home.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
• Release date: Apr 15, 2014
• ISBN: 9781629140018

Reviews for Country Style

[neverruthless-1 · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

This would have been better titled Junk Style. There is little of Country Style remaining in most of these rooms. There is more industrial style and found and re-made style here. I found the book too gimmicky and odd. It’s much more a craft book than one on décor anyway. Ms. Ornberg fancies herself quite creative, and she’s borrowed other people’s homes to showcase her quirky, but ultimately throw-away art pieces. She makes a moose head trophy from socks and knitted gloves. Her celebration of books section shows art made from disassembled old books – a travesty in my eyes. “With a little bit of effort, some less interesting books are converted into quaint decorations that evoke feelings of nostalgia. Pull the covers off and peel away the first few pages to get to the title page. This works best with books where the page signatures have been sewn into the spine, newer books are glued, which doesn’t make for the same effect. Bunch a few books together and tie them with a piece of rough string or twine that you wind around the bunch a few times.” Sounds like torture and kidnapping of good old friends! Her pallet chair is the most interesting item in her repertoire, but although it looks like a folding chair, it is not.