How to Add French Accents

The homes of France incorporate baroque and Gallic styles to decorating their spaces. Intimate, smaller spaces are created using ornate furniture, rugs, and curtains. Flowers and silk are two French accents seen in a variety of French interior design examples. Adding French accents to your home is easy if you know a little bit about interior decorating and also where to purchase your new French decor. Does this Spark an idea?

Instructions

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Create smaller, intimate spaces rather than large rooms. In a "Hamptons Home with a French Accent" in Elle Decor, an interior decoration shows that French homes often had rooms that were only 18 feet long or wide. This meant that there was limited space to decorate, but also that curtains can be used to separate larger spaces and divide areas into intimate rooms.

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Long silk curtains are one French accent to add to your home.

Choose fabrics with the French palace Versailles in mind. From curtains to cushions, study elaborate French interior design. Pink silks with embroidered flower patterns, lined curtains, and plush sofas with separate cushions are some French-inspired ideas from Elle Decor.

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A pedestal with varied bouquet adds a touch of romance to any room.

Add pedestals to formal dining rooms and hallways. Place plants, statues or busts on top of pedestals to create a historic feel to your home. Potted flower plants, including bouquets, are often seen in French decor as fixtures of coffee tables and accents for corner tables.

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Create or purchase wall coverings and wallpaper from French designers, such as de Gournay, who uses intricate flower and patterns to decorate walls in pastel colors.

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Purchase accents from French dealers. Many interior design websites cater to French interior decorating. With a French Accent has a variety of clocks, mirrors, artwork, lamps, tables, and wall decorations. Pierre Deux is another online retailer that sells furniture, home decor, rugs, tabletops, lighting, totes and bags, wallpaper and fabrics.

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Visit websites like Neat Home to see examples of French accents used in interior design. For example, La Bastide de Marie, a hotel in France, shows a vast array of different french accents in their gallery on Neat Home. Their rooms combine elaborate silk furniture to potted plants and ornate ivory decorated side tables. Freind.org is another website devoted to French interior design ideas.