Home Decor Info

A country kitchen highlights all the warmth and character this popular gathering place has to offer. Wall art in a country-style kitchen can serve to amplify this cozy feel, reflecting the styles, themes, and colors already displayed through the room. If you’re looking to design a comfortable and welcoming kitchen decor, here are some great wall art ideas for a country-style kitchen to get you started.

Traditional Country Kitchen Decor

Country art prints should reflect this nostalgic feel, providing a glimpse into times long past. For example, The Kitchen by Carl Larsson showcases an old farm kitchen scene, complete with little girls wearing pinafores and sunbonnets. There are also simpler prints like Kay Lamb Shannon’s Victorian Kitchen that depict kitchen scenes from earlier eras.

Natural Country Designs

Another approach to the country-style kitchen is a natural country design highlighted by warm colors, an open floor plan, and lots of light. The focus here is on natural fibers and country-inspired wood grains, accented by handcrafted furnishings and pure colors. Many prefer their country kitchen design to have a down-home country feel to it. Wall art can provide a wonderful finishing touch to any country-style kitchen decor.

Yes, this room also has a beautiful wall mural. This time the colors are magnificent shades of browns, golds, maroons, black, yellow, gray and white. The walls above the counters are mosaic mural tiles that picture fresh fruit platters and wine bottles.

Did I mention the mural on the far wall of the kitchen? Absolutely amazing potted flowers in full beautiful deep colored shades of red, pink and deep orange line the courtyard leading to a white linen tablecloth covered round table and chair.

The dresser, night stands and hutch are all finished in antique white.

Guess what is on the wall opposite the bed? Did I hear you say wall mural? You are right again. This time the wall mural is called Unicorn Garden. The moonlight transforms the scene into unbelievable deep shades of blue, purple and lavender.

This full wall mural is a delightful addition to the atmosphere of the room. Nice Job!

Jordan’s bedroom looks like the typical 11 year old boy’s bedroom. The white walls have a checkered flag wallpaper border going around the room about 1/3 of the way up the walls.

There are black wall mounted shelves above the headboard of the bed. On one wall is a life-size wall graphic of Jordan’s favorite NFL Quarterback. Here too, on the far wall across from the bed is, you guessed it, a wall mural.

Now this particular wall mural is an artist’s rendition of NASCAR racing. With smears of wonderfully brilliant pastel colors surrounding five race cars colored in radiant and pulsating hues of red, green, yellow and blue. This wall mural is what I like to call the perfect finishing touch to this boy’s bedroom. Emily is Jake and Diane’s 7 year old daughter. Here the bed is a Hollywood style bed with an over stuffed comforter in a beautiful swirling pattern of pastel green, pink, blue and yellow. You know I’m talking about a wall mural perfect for a 7 year old girl.

The title of this mural is Daydreaming. This room is a little girl’s dream.

On the far side of the room opposite the side of the room the waterbed is on, is a full wall mural.

This wall mural is absolutely gorgeous. The name of this full wall mural is Tuscan Villa. This artist’s rendition shows three arches of this pillar arched wall. There are beautiful green vines climbing up the pillars and the inside arched pillar walls of the terrace are in magnificent earth tones. This full wall mural is an alluring art form that takes your breath away when you enter this room. Between the living room and family room they open a door with a stairway leading to the finished basement. Next we explore the recreation room in the basement.

The wall behind the bar is mirrored and a there is a long cabinet below the mirrored wall with liquor bottles lining the wall in front of the mirror. Over in the far side of the room is a ping pong table. Over on the far wall, just past the ping pong table is a large flat panel TV mounted on the stone wall. It was a full wall mural that made the room come to life.

Let me begin by saying that this wall mural made the room seem much larger than it actually was. The title of this mural is Game Room. The front outer wall is an arched glass wall that must be at least 35 to 40 feet tall. The pool table is in the center of the room. The room decor is right out of the late 1950′s.

Portable Clock Radio

While most portable clock radios are a small investment, you should put some serious thought into what you need in a clock radio. There are 4 basic categories of features:

-      Basic features, like size, visibility, a snooze feature, and battery backup…

-      Travel features, like durability, which may or may not be important to you…

-      Audio features, like the type of speakers the radio uses, audio jacks, AM/FM/CD/MP3 capability…

-      And optional features, like telephones, multiple alarm times, Wi-Fi capability, iPod compatibility, and more…

The basic features will eliminate some models for you right away. Then eliminate any clocks that don’t have large displays. Don’t choose the travel-trunk sized alarm. Have frequent power outages? Well, you need to consider the audio features of your clock radio. What about MP3 capability? Can it play songs from your MP3 player to wake you up?

There are also many options available in portable clock radios. Why not purchase a combination portable clock radio and telephone?

Then a clock that will allow you to set multiple waking times might come in handy! Some newer models are even capable of logging into a Wi-Fi network to stream online radio for free!