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Evocative: How French Inspired Decorating Stirs the Senses
The French deeply understand appealing to the senses and evoking emotion with art, color, and objects in a room’s design.
Indeed, they seem naturally wired to evoke pleasant moods and feelings of well-being with their adept ability to introduce surprising juxtapositions.
It’s why we admirers study the work and seek to develop an eye for creating a character-rich balance of rustic and refined!
Luminous: Luminosity & Country French Style
My favorite color palette within the realm of French inspired interiors features faded, light-filled, chalky, subdued, bleached, and pale colors that reflect and increase the ambient light in a room.
If the word ‘sun-drenched’ tickles your brain and feels delicious to your senses, you’re in the club too.
Earthy: Natural Elements & Earthiness
Natural materials are everywhere in French country design. Flowers are fresh. Rugs and textiles are woven of materials which grew from the earth. Pottery, earthenware, construction materials, and furnishings are made of wood, stone, and iron…as opposed to synthetics or plastic.
Additionally, there’s a practicality–a down to earth sensibility–in French inspired decorating. Objects are functional AND beautiful; in fact, their functionality only makes them more beautiful.
Subtle: An Understated Approach to Interiors
Whether it’s the color palette or lighting, the French know their way around the art of the understated. What strikes me as the most successful use of juxtaposition in French country and French farmhouse style decorating is how the French employ subtlety amid the contrast.
Call me cuckoo, but je n’aime pas feeling jolted or jarred by a room’s design. I want to feel soothed, seduced, and also embraced by nuanced layers of loveliness.
Soulful: Engaging the Spirit of Design
It’s an ageless element of simplicity, purity, and graceful elegance which simply cannot be ordered online. Often soulfulness results from incorporating antiques.
Soulfulness flows from multiple sources: the spirit of the decorator, the history and integrity of objects, the architecture or bones of the shelter, and even from color choices.
What I’m calling soulful may be otherwise be known as poetic. When seeking an effortless look, avoid overthinking. Soulful decorating necessitates a light hand and full heart.
It’s that lovely golden thread running through the most satisfying French inspired designs; an impossible-to-quantify energy…difficult to reduce to ingredients, yet quite natural to sense.
Daily Living & Timeless Interiors
Here’s the thing about my affinity for French inspired decor: there are all sorts of parallels in my daily life. For example, I tend to welcome quiet, wabi sabi beauty into the ordinary rhythms of my day because it can be lifegiving and also forgiving.
Such qualities are helpful as I struggle daily with chronic illness and autoimmune ups and downs.
For me, resonance with French-inspired subtle, soulful living reflects my desire to greet the beauty life brings with a wholehearted, HELLO, LOVELY.
This harmony of interiors figurative and literal may flow naturally. However, I find it is more likely to rise with intentional daily practice. Meditation, opportunities for contemplation, and gestures that allow my thoughts to fall into the quiet of my heart space.
It’s there I sense an everlasting source of goodness and purity in a flow that will never run dry.
Rustic, White, and French Inspired Decor Ideas
White for me is a reflection of light filled, understated, unadorned purity.
It creates the most gentle milieu for new life to emerge.
I do love a white unfussy yet elegant interior at home!
Peek Inside a Rustic Home We Renovated
Accessories In the Spirit of White Rustic French Flair
The perfect combination of modern and French:
Perfect for over a bed or on a gallery wall:
For a low cost candle holder for the mantel or table:
Old World Country European Inspired Lighting
Don’t miss this story with heart stopping French and Belgian inspired moments!
Rugged French Inspired Accents
You may want to tour this cottage for more inspiration as well.
Ever incorporated encaustic tiles into a design project? So charming for a farmhouse style mudroom or laundry room!
Romantic French Country Mirrors
I modified a plain old salvaged bathroom vanity mirror with a little latex paint and this Springtime in Paris stencil.
Rustic French Inspired Benches
Here’s a rustic unfinished bench you can customize to your liking:
Slipcovered Dining & Accent Chairs
European Country Inspired Unfussy Side Tables
So many gorgeous options for chic as well as rustic side tables!
Shop the Look
Do not miss the inspiration of this authentically crafted French country home and ideas for pale color stories.
Peace to you right where you are.
-michele
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