Primitive Country Decor
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If you want to create a country feel to your home, Primitive Country Decor is becoming one of the most exciting methods of decorating. Furnishing your home with that comfy feel is so simple and provides the occasion to do some antique shopping. Another wonderful thing about Primitives, are the many items available that are not actually antiques, but still give your home that antique, country feel you may be looking for!
Primitive Decorating Ideas
Primitive decor is an old quilt that is flung over a rocking chair. Picture it as a location of warm-heartedness and nurturing, of simple delight that your ancestors enjoyed. An antique farmhouse kitchen is a wonderful place to begin if you feel a need for that country feel. Decorate it with primitive wall decor, roosters, sunflowers, birdhouses or anything that warms your heart.
You can add the same sense of restfulness to your living room or den. Your decor should present an image from a time of rural living. Rustic furniture, primitive stars, wooden rockers and quilts all are great decor showing days gone by. Primitive interior decorating can represent a sense of history and heritage.
Primitive Curtains
Windows are a vital part of any decor scheme. For a Primitive country look, bring out the primitive curtains. Use 1950s mature tablecloths for cafe style curtains in the kitchen. Remember that if you already have a number of designs in your wall coverings or upholstery, then it would be a good idea to tone down the windows and use a more solid fabric. Window treatments are the ultimate finishing touch to a well designed room and should show the owner's personal style, yet be well mixed with the furnishings.
Below you will find great deals on Primitive Curtains at Ebay. The items below are at fixed or "Buy It Now" prices!
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 Primitive Watermelon Valance::Prim Curtain::Melons  US $19.99
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 Primitive Watermelon Door Valance*43" Country Curtain US $16.99
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 Hand Painted Primitive Crows Valance - Country Curtain US $16.99
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Halloween Primitives as a Home Decoration
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The use of Halloween primitives as home decoration has been a yearly tradition in our family. Halloween is our favorite time of year, with it being harvest time and the leaves on the trees changing color and the slight hint of coolness in the evening air. We love all the little ghosts and goblins and princesses and pirates that come to our door for a sweet treat! We love to treat their eyes, too, and it starts us all thinking about how we will decorate our home for Halloween this year.
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After much spirited debate, we have decided on a witch theme. We have a really long front porch that has a rail the whole length of it and is about six feet deep. We think that it looks like the perfect shape to make into a general store for witches! A homespun gnarly witch doll, with the obligatory wart on her nose, will welcome our little guests at the entrance to her store. The first area will be reserved for assorted flying broomsticks. A stuffed black cat, its back arched, will be the next thing they see, just as all the noise from the rattling bones in the magic cauldron area start making loud noises. Next, bats made of cloth will fly past their heads in the magic potion area. They'll see shelves back lit with a black light with all kinds and sizes of jars and bottles with unidentifiable contents floating in them and glowing in the dark. Next will be the magic spell book area and they will be startled by the pages that seem to turn by themselves. The final page tells them to go see the witch for their treat.
Finally, they will reach our front door where a real live witch in pointed black hat and robes will be giving out candy treats from out of a bowl that looks like a smoking cauldron. Hopefully the children will make it that far before running away! If they do, they will have a whole year to recover and look forward to what our next year's decorations will be.
How will you be decorating your home with Halloween Primitives?
Primitive Folk Art Paintings
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A wide genre exists when it comes to searching for primitive folk art paintings, so much so that you may have to rely upon the individual’s definition on what these types of artwork really are. Some may just go for those paintings or prints that are becoming popular in the market. Theirs is the style of the struggling artist known as naive art.
Or you could go for the vintage-looking art renditions that are becoming increasingly popular as home wall decors. These primitive folk art paintings come as devoutly patriotic, unadulterated Americana, with some touches of the culture from Canada also sometimes surging in. The subjects of these paintings may include various renditions of the American flag.
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Still in other folk art versions, familiar signage forms found along streets, shops, country fairs and rodeos invite their viewers to relive some near-forgotten childhood memories. Even the farmer's home-made posters proclaiming some farm produce on sale or a room space available have not escaped the brush renderings of some disciples of primitive folk art paintings. The recollections that go into these works of art extend to landscapes that harbor a traditional cottage or a desolate-looking country school house somehow made warmer by garden flowers or by playful characters either in human or animal characterization.
To complete that desired look for primitive folk art paintings, faded colors are often the choice. The wooden frames of these art works are new but made to appear as if they have seen some better days kept in an attic or inside a barn. The aged look is manifested by washing the frames with some light wood stain, and it is ready for the art market that now conveniently extends to online art galleries where you can easily search for some perfect representations of the primitive folk art paintings.