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What is Tuscan Decor?
Before you can get a real grip on the style, getting a handle on the atmosphere is a necessity.
Tuscany, home to multiple outdoor styles of living, situated in Italy, is afree and easy lifestyle. Its home to vineyards and some of the best wines that are available in the world. The area is populated with centuries old farm houses and chickens that have the run of the place, laying their eggs on sun warmed ground.

It is the area where the Romans took their leisure, during the days of the great empire, in order to seek comfort and find some peace and solitude that the area offered up to the visitor.

The Tuscany farmer lives a life replete with vines that drip with grapes, lush greenery surrounding them and rich black soil in which to plant their crops.
The aura of Tuscany is simple living, clean air and nature surrounding you, relaxation in the midst of the work day.

The decor of Tuscany therefore, whether its real, or contrived to emulate the real thing, is very much the same as the atmosphere of the area.
Hardy furniture that will work as hard as the owner, clean lines and rustic comforts.

When you choose to decorate in the Tuscan style you’re going to be seeking out earth tones, woods or faux woods.. The dark tones of an old antique oaken table or the new hardwood one. Ironstone mugs and dishes, salt glazed stoneware rather than the finest bone china from which to sip your strong coffee.
The lifestyle, and the decorating style of Tuscany, is easy care and easy living.


What you will see and feel when you enter a home in Tuscany, or create a Tuscan decorating style will be comfort and peace. A haven of relaxation, rustic woods, polished brass and the kind of place that will make you want to kick back, put your feet up on the old rough wood coffee table and take in a good book and a cup of strong black coffee while a fire crackles merrily across the room from you.

The hillside of Tuscany can be where you come home to, no matter where you live if you take some time to study the look and to incorporate it into your own living space, whether that space is in the middle of Manhattan or the outskirts of a small village in New Jersey..

Your Tuscany decor will recreate that comfort for you, complete with hard wood, rustic comfort, multiple soft cushions and brightly lit rooms that will beg for you to come inside.

The kitchen in your Tuscan home will feature large oversized pitchers or urns, hand painted Italian ceramic work, vintage copper or tin ware, all in warm earth tons that say welcome… you can bring the Tuscany home to life with such things as rustic pot racks, copper kettles, wooden bowls of fruit or flowers gracing the side boards.

The walls of your Tuscan home will be decorated with painted or texture painted walls, or faux stone or sandstone, such as those which Behr produces so lovingly for such interiors.
You will fill those spaces with hard woods, or heavy wood furniture, soft lights and wood or iron wall sconces, mirrors or wood framed photos, to offer a look of older style and well worn comfort.

The floors in your home could be of wood, or aged wood, or even a faux material that makes it look the same. Beautiful easy care floors that offer the look of flagstone are available to us today to make the care of such beautiful things far easier than it was originally, and still give off that look of time worn comfort.

Your home will be a meeting ground for neighbors and friends because the walls and floors, the older furniture beckon them to come inside and be comfortable in their surroundings.
The decor and the lifestyle of Tuscany is not only warm and friendly but easy care, sturdy and able to withstand the normal wear and tear of children, pets and an active lifestyle. The decor of Tuscany has already withstood the test of time, and remains popular today because of its hardiness and its comfort.