There’s a new trend rising in home decor. It’s called primitive decor and it’s hot on the heels of a shabby and chic, mixed with country style.
What’s Primitive Decorating?
Primitive decor is however you define it. The rules aren’t set in stone. Take some rustic pieces, some old-world paint colors, a bit of crackled varnish [...]

Primitive Folk Art paintings and prints hot on the market are saltbox scenes done in a style of a budding artist. This style of art is also known as Naive Art (that’s not a misspelling, it is naive as in childlike).
Vintage looking Folk Art is all the rage these days for country home decorative accents. [...]

Vintage looking Folk Art is all the rage these days. You’ve seen it around I’m sure, it’s a partial spin off of ’shabby chic’ – taking tired or new pieces of furniture and making them look like farmhouse antiques.
Primitive Decorating
A friend of mine took a horrendous looking veneer-coated, monstrously ugly bookshelf from the 70s, added [...]

In the middle of the 18th century painted floor cloths were a standard item for every room. If and when they ever wore around the edges, they were cut down and used as small mats.
Painted floor cloths made today are much more durable. Some designers even create them to last over 10 years, with regular [...]

Let’s talk about Primitive Decorating… what it is, and what it isn’t.
Primitive decorating is part flea market finds, part shabby chic, part ‘make-do’.
This style of decorating might, at times, involve antiques or barn finds – that you fix up to the point of usability, and then display.
At other times, if you have a corner or [...]

Really, if you have the time or money, nothing beats heading out for a day of
shopping, visiting country themed decor stores with a close friend.
By theme stores I mean those small shops that focus on just one area of expertise. Shops that are more of a destination and thrill than a mash-up general-store-of-stuff that you [...]