How to Decorate A Dining Room With Chair Railing

Dining rooms can be easily directed using chair railing. Decorative trim installed on a wall about 32 inches above the floor, which protects against scuffs from furniture. You can buy it anywhere online or at home outfitting places. Technically chair railing are also “panel molding.”

The point is that it can be used purely decoratively and not otherwise. Throw out all those preconceived ideas of how to use chair railings and create a dining room uniquely your own. In a short time, you will have a dining room you, your family and dinner guests will find beautiful. The reason this form of decorating works so well is because it is so unassuming.
You are using the architecture of the room to make a difference rather than decorating in a way that is just surface.

Did you know you can use the chair railing to divide your dining room wall. You can make the division vertically or horizontally using chair railings. All you have to do is paint the chair railing a color that complements and contrasts the color of your dining room wall. You can also paint sections of the wall in different complementary colors. However do not make your color choices too opposite or the room might look too much like a circus.

You can also use chair railings to create a fake window in our dining room. The chair railing should be glued to the wall in the shape of a window. You can even paint a mural of an outdoor scene behind the chair railing. Go all out and add draperies to make the faux window appear more real.

Use a chair railing to frame a wall mural in your dining room. Attach chair railing to the wall around a mural. Paint the chair railing a color that will complement the mural. This works well for any type of wall mural.

You can also use a chair railing to create narrow verticalstripes on your dining room wall. Attach chair railing vertically to the wall to make “pinstripes” on you dining room wall. This will have the optical illusion of making the the ceiling seems higher and the room larger. Paint the chair railing a contrasting, yet complementary ,color if you want them to stand out and capture the idea.

It is also relatively inexpensive to use chair railing in this way. Be sure to be creative. Many enchanting dining rooms have been created using just a few pieces of chair railing.

How to Decorate a French Country Kitchen

One of the most fashionable ways to decorate a kitchen is in the French Country style. This is a very rustic look that is reminiscent of the charm found in homes in the South of France.

To accomplish this look you will have to decorate with toile. Toile is a fabric that has pictures of the countryside of France on it. It might depict landscapes, bottles of wine, cheese and the produce of France on it as well. These motifs are a great choice for the curtains, tablecloth, chair seats and dining ware in your kitchen.

Ladder back chairs are also characteristic of this look. Make sure the table is large and rustic and that the chairs have seats made out of rush (twined water reeds.)

The colors of the French Countryside are rusts, greens, blues and golds. Keep the walls, ceiling and floors in earthy brown, creams and red colors. If you have beams running across your ceiling you are lucky because it means you would have accomplished the look. If you don’t have beams in your ceiling you can also install them.

A stone floor also compliments this look. You can get faux tile in stone like colors that can help achieve this affect. Another charachteristic of this kitchen style is roughly plastered walls. Cast iron wall sconces also look nice on a plastered wall.

Yet another characteristic of rustic French kitchens is rusted metal. Rusted metal could be found in kitchen cabinet hardware, lighting fixtures and baker racks.

French motifs in the form of scultprues, clocks and other items can be roosters, olives, sunflowers and lavender. Decorate with handmade pottery to bring the element of the French countryside to your kitchen.

It is also characteristic to hang baskets in a kitchen. These woven baskets should be large and natural looking. You can put fruit and vegetables in these baskets and use them to store cooking implements.

Copper pots and iron pots also look gorgeous in this type of kitchen. Be sure to hang them from the ceiling and on the walls to augment the look.

When planning your space, remember that the French Country is a very warm, relaxed, and informal decorating style. Stay away from anything too fussy or formal.