I need help on Decorating our Home in Country Decor Frugally!!

**CAGmomof2** · 04-26-2002, 03:40 PM

I need help on Decorating our Home in Country Decor Frugally!!
My DH and I love the Look of Country and we want to decorate our Home in a Country Decor Look!! We are on a really tight budget and we would like some helpful advice and tips if you all have any on Decorating Frugally with Country Decor!!
Thank you all in advance for all of your help!!

The colors of our home are White Walls in all of the room except the Kitchen , The Master Bath and, The Bathroom in those rooms the walls have wallpaper with mediumblue,some medium rose colors, and some medium green colors as well in all the wallpaper(The Background on the Wallpaper is White)!!Our Carpet is medium green in all the bedrooms!! In the Kitchen, Laundry room,Master Bedroom Closet, Master Bathroom, & Bathroom has White linoliem with medium green squares in the pattern of the floor!! What style of country? The country style we would use we have not really decided yet !! We are kinda of leaning more towards folk, americanna, and english !! We have not really found the perfect style for us we are just working around what we have and then we will see what we like and seems to look good in our home!! Thank you for all of your help!!

**Sara Noel** · 04-27-2002, 01:42 AM

Have you checked out http://www.sampler.com ?

They have some neat diy projects and lots of ideas.
I did a lot of flea market shopping for my decor. I started with some teacups and teapots and next thing ya know I was collecting all types of goodies.

I like this idea on the sampler website:

http://www.sampler.com/decideas/arch.../project1.html

**KathiS** · 04-27-2002, 03:29 AM

Thanks Sara! I have always loved those magazines but, didn't know they had a site. Lots of great decorating ideas. Can you believe some of those houses? Wow!

**Michelle** · 04-27-2002, 07:02 AM

I love that idea Sara. Very inexpensive and so charming. I am always looking for more storage space here, especially in my kitchen.

**Michelle** · 04-27-2002, 07:13 AM

There are some really nice country home accents and also kits to make some of them on this site:

http://www.countrysampler.com/

**COUNTRYBUMPKIN** · 04-27-2002, 08:07 AM

Thanks for the sites! My entire home is country decor also. I just love to scour the yard sales, flea markets and antique shoppes for decor and great bargins. I go to the local library and check out their books and magazines on country decor also. Shoot, I love to look at those pictures of homes with such great ideas!

**CAGmomof2** · 04-27-2002, 08:19 AM

Thank you all for your help!! I really appreciate it all so much!!
Has anyone ever seen the show called Country Style or Country at Home on Home and Garden TV!! I really love those shows!!

**dz_blonde_girl** · 05-24-2002, 08:14 PM

I have a 4-seasons country look in my living room. It all started with a free calandar I got from somewhere online. I chose 4 season pics from it and put them in dollar store frames. The rest of the stuff came from garage sales.

**CAGmomof2** · 05-24-2002, 08:17 PM

Thank you for your helpful tips and advice!!

**crdurham** · 05-24-2002, 10:52 PM

My house is also decorated country.....I love to decorate and have gotten most of my stuff from auctions, flea markets or family......

I also get alot of ideas from Country Living Magazine....here's a link

http://www.countryliving.com/

they have some really great ideas, hope this helps!!!

Cornelia

**CAGmomof2** · 05-24-2002, 11:32 PM

Thank you for the link I will have to go look at it !! Thank you for your help!!

**Sara Noel** · 05-25-2002, 10:34 AM

http://www.sampler.com/decideas/arch.../project2.html

This is such a pretty idea.

**Sara Noel** · 05-25-2002, 10:36 AM

Ohhhh this one is fun too! Now you got me going and looking at this site again. *LOL*

http://www.sampler.com/decideas/arch.../project1.html

**TAMA-TOE** · 05-25-2002, 02:11 PM

CountryBumpkin you should post some pics of your home it is beautiful and truley inspiration for country decor. I love Country Style though I do not like Mary Emerling yak she is soooooo mundane when she talks. Don't forget HGTV has a website that you could look up ideas. I also LOVE to go to Estate Auctions and I would say that 85 percent of my home is decorated with such. These little old ladies that pass away have such great antiques, I have had to pay good money for somethings that I was determined to have (lol) and have gotten away with some absolute steals (got a 12 gal crock with just an age crack for 10.00-salt crock for 5.00, crock bowls 6.00-9.00) anyway you can get just about anything and everything under the sun at estate auctions for the Most, but not all of the time cheaper than flea markets, ebay and definately most of the time antique shops.
If you watch Country with Style you are already pretty much ahead of the game.
My best advice to you would be pick a picture from a magizine that you like and do like they do on the Shabby Chic show find what you can that is just like what there is and sub the rest. Don't forget there is no rules, buy what you like, proper display is the key to making it all pull together.

PennyPinchinPam · 05-25-2002, 03:06 PM

My kitchen and my living room are downstairs and both are decorated country style. My living room is the Americana theme

(before 9/11) and my kitchen is Apples.

I just started out slow and bought what I could when I could. I've gotten both rooms where I want them now (except for really organizing the kitchen again) and it's been 5 years in the making. We moved once during that time too. So of course the great apple curtains a girlfriend sewed for me didn't fit the new house.

So that was a tiny setback. The sites that were posted are wonderful. I'll have to go take a look myself.