Lodge Decor - Furnishing Your Country Retreat

Also: Rustic Lodge Bedding, Rustic Lodge Furniture, Rustic Log Furniture, Lodge Cookware

If you have a hunting lodge, or just a country lodge or cabin retreat to get away from the daily stress of city life, then you have an opportunity to create an ambience totally different from your main home. Lodge decor can be used to create an atmosphere that is quite in contrast to that which you might normally have in your main residence.

If you go to the lodge to get away from "normal" life, then a contrast in decor will add to that escapism. If not, then it is still true that your lodge decor should be different to the average modern home decor; at least, if you want to maintain it in keeping with the rustic surroundings of the lodge.

One of the great things about lodge decor is the way antique and vintage styles fit so well. Before the advent of modern building methods and decoration, most of the furniture and other decor were of a style that is in keeping with the interior design of a lodge. The liberal use of wood, especially dark wood, in furniture, wall hangings and ornaments, goes as well in a 16th century country cottage as it does in a modern lodge.

The use of rustic lighting and floral fabrics also goes just well in an olde worlde cottage as a hunting or holiday lodge. Thankfully, this means that it is relatively easy to find furniture, bedding, ornaments and lighting that will enhance the rustic ambiance of your lodge. Even the kitchen can be an escape to the past, but still modern in its function, with the use of vintage style pots and pans, antique style table and chairs, vintage pot hangers and so on.