Country-style furnishing is a very popular trend in the latest interior design trends, especially in country homes and seaside residences where a relaxing, homey feel is desired.
In addition to the right furniture and the clever use of wood, wicker and comfortable upholstery, to achieve this style you can hang artistic puzzles on the walls that reproduce panoramas and landscapes in perfect country side style , or recall maritime scenarios that smell of saltiness and salty plants.
As you read on, you’ll discover a series of ideas and suggestions for decorating your ideal country home with paintings , or for carving out a country corner in your city apartment where you can take a break from the hectic pace of everyday life.
Decorating in country style is very simple, even without spending a fortune: the trick stolen from the best interior designers is to focus on colors, recycled materials, and a few recycled and refurbished pieces of furniture that give it a country cottage feel.
A wide-seated, upholstered velvet sofa with classic quilted armrests is enough to give a country feel to the dining room, complete with a table and straw-seated chairs.
In the kitchen and bathroom, some ceramic and porcelain basins are enough, perhaps the ones that grandma used for the dressing table, or some wicker baskets to take us back to a Provençal and shabby chic imaginary.
To enrich a wall and decorate in country style, there is nothing better than a beautiful artistic puzzle depicting some of the great masters of contemporary art.
So, we propose Gauguin and Van Gogh who, thanks to the colors used as a very primary expressive method, flood the room with light and immerse the viewer in a relaxing and restful sensation.
It’s crucial to choose the right wall art based on the feelings you want to evoke, because the color palette has a powerful evocative power.
All the great expressionist painters know this well, using color as a primordial form of communication, so strong that it is capable of furnishing an entire room with a single chromatic field.
It is not just decoration, color is used by Expressionist artists as a basic form of communication for their works.
Just think of a complex and tormented painter like Vincent Van Gogh , whose paintings use colours as a narrative voice of a difficult and fluctuating interiority.
For Vincent, color is the key to expression, just as a musician uses an instrument or a writer uses words. Through his personal use of paint, the artist interprets his moods and conveys them to us in all their vehemence and spontaneity.
In fact, one can easily move from dark and painful episodes such as the nocturnes , to moments of reconciliation with oneself through the iconic Sunflowers , of which there are many unique and unrepeatable versions: just a touch of a different colour and a different shade are able to represent an unprecedented emotion, of that precise moment.
To furnish a welcoming kitchen and a perfect dining room in country style, we chose our artistic puzzles reproducing Van Gogh’s Sunflowers, a true booster of color and vitality that illuminates the room and recalls fields of flowers swaying in the sun.
Once he arrived in the charming town of Arles, in the south of France, Vincent decided to involve his friend and colleague Gauguin to paint together and share the avant-garde art that would revolutionize all future pictorial production.
While awaiting his friend’s arrival, the artist produced between 1888 and 1889 the series of paintings that best represent his work in the world. The Sunflowers reflect the artist’s happiest and most positive period.
Therefore, we suggest the warm, sunny and enveloping colours of the iconic Sunflowers for a country house , to decorate designer walls but also a single corridor and give a window onto the world.. Yes, that of a multifaceted artist who kept night and day in a single, great soul.
Still lifes with sunflowers: this is the technical term, but we can safely say that they are actually living natures , full of sun and warmth, ideal on the kitchen walls, among hanging copper pans, or next to the kitchenette where delicious Sunday lunches are prepared.
If you prefer to decorate with landscape paintings, we suggest artistic puzzles that reproduce another iconic work by Vincent Van Gogh, Banks of the Oise at Auvers : a riot of brushstrokes and touches of color that vibrate, like the rarefied waves of the river, and accompany a peaceful sunny day en plein air.
The warm colors, in shades of yellow and orange, dialogue wonderfully with the typical hues of a country setting and a cottage surrounded by greenery.
Another exponent of Expressionism, or rather of Post-Expressionism, is Paul Gauguin , lover of a maritime and exotic style, almost suspended and out of time.
During his travels to Tahiti, the artist was dazzled by the beauty of those pristine places, but above all by the allure of the native women, so exotic and stunning. Paul Gauguin was so captivated by those distant landscapes that they became the subject and integral part of his artistic output. Indeed, post-expressionism here translates into the use of vivid, primordial, and natural color throughout.
The Gauguin Tahitian Women puzzle is perhaps the most artistic and the most suitable for decorating a country style , especially in a seaside house.
Indeed, the skin tone of Polynesian women provides the excuse to play with unusual shades like chocolate, amber, and caramel. Furthermore, the traditional costumes and flowers in their hair offer further inspiration for illuminating the canvas with artfully juxtaposed primary and complementary colors, including red and pink, which complement each other. And they coexist in a successful marriage.
Paul Gauguin’s Polynesian women, so absorbed in weaving straw or relaxing in the sun, transport the viewer directly to the sea, even if it is raining or snowing inside the house: the artistic puzzles that reproduce the Tahitian female figures contain all the evocative power of pure colour, applied in fields and without too many shades and chiaroscuro.
The puzzle is a great idea for decorating the living room with paintings and immediately recalls a country beach style , for a villa on the beach or a mini apartment inspired by the Blue Lagoon .
Another very effective decorative method to enrich the house with light and furnish in country style is the mural , a primitive art that has ancient origins that lead back to Paleolithic man and the graffiti on the rocks of caves.
This is a theme that would later be taken up again in 20th-century art, thanks to all Mexican poetics, including the artist Diego Rivera.
But let’s go back to Pompeii and the Ancient Romans, in a dive into the past: to furnish a refined living area in country style we suggest the puzzle the girl offering Pompeii . A work that immortalizes a scene of daily life from 2000 years ago, before Vesuvius buried the city and made its characters eternal.
The puzzle faithfully reproduces, with bright colors and meticulous detail, the frescoes on the walls of the Villa dei Ministri in Pompeii. The mural plays with warm shades of red and brown, with purple accents on the women’s dresses.
In fact, as a whole, the art puzzle is perfect for decorating a single wall and giving the complete idea of ​​​​the countryside and the suburbs with a single object.
The painting becomes the undisputed protagonist of the room: with such expressive force you can hang the puzzle without a frame , carving out a unique and unrepeatable space that smells of history, and of that Mediterranean warmth that everyone in the world envies us.
So, let’s imagine a Pompeii mural in the living room, or in the exclusive bathroom of a country holiday home: the frameless puzzle seems to move and capture the solemn and self-celebratory spirit of the landscapes overwhelmed by Vesuvius.
Here, with a single, exclusive puzzle , carefully crafted and finished down to the last detail, you can have a museum-like corner in your living room, a small piece of Roman archaeological excavations: imagine the painting hanging near the indoor pool, or the bathtub… don’t you already feel like you’re at the spa?
