1. Your living room is made for just that - living. When it is time to kick back and relax, think about a large club chair. Big, rolled armrests flank generous seat cushions and backrests. Upholstered in leather, fabric, or even with hair hides, rustic club chairs create a rich, stately look to your living room.
2. Choosing a rustic table for your living room is a great choice for nearly any motif that you may have. Rustic coffee tables will bring heavy wood into your decor, and many tables feature leather, rope, or hair hide.
3. Accent pieces can cover many areas of your living room and offer pleasant surprises. A rustic light fixture might involve stylized steer horns in addition to antique molded glass. Mirrors may be framed in leather or knotty pine. Of course, many accessories for the hearth are available. You might say the hearth is at the heart of rustic style.
4. When you think of rustic decor in your home, you probably think of heavy wood, forged metal, and charming contours. Dominant during the late 1800s and early 1900s, this type of furniture exemplified the simple and rugged lifestyle of the early settlers. Log furniture certainly fits into this classification. However, its bright color and sometimes gnarled character imparts a distinctly mountain feel to the look.
5. European style can also have a rustic quality. Dating back even earlier by perhaps as many as 100 years than its American counterpart, rustic European furniture has a formal antique quality to it. Even in it simplest forms, rustic European style usually offers more visual details, whether they are carved wood, glass, or hand-painted elements.
