The rustic style came into vogue with the increased interest in design. As soon as the opportunity arose to bring personality and color into your home, there was an immediate craving for country. And that’s no accident. The style combines a slight longing for a beautiful and comfortable country life, a specific aestheticism and playfulness. But its main feature is its romanticism – its dreaminess, its escape from reality, its naivety.
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Freestanding appliances – stovetops – are well-deservedly respected in the country. Among the internationally recognised favourites are
Big stoves with a width of 70-150 cm. They can fit close to the furniture or stand-alone, often in a purpose-built recess. The design of some of the stoves is fully in line with the country design, such as the Erisson GG90/60SV BK and Fratelli Onofri YRU 190.C50 FEM.
Some manufacturers offer colorful, very effective and often recognizable designs Restart, Aga and ILVE . Also suitable for country kitchens are classic in terms of appliance design models like the Smeg CS19-6 and Ardo PL 998 XS.
Hoods
Hoods for country-style appliances are usually made in the same collection with the appliance or stovetop. There are few varieties of them: in the form of a cone Elica Tonda F/60 copper, Ardo VA 61 black, CATA Q-7760 negra or pyramid Teka DOS 90 BE, Smeg KSE 66 P, CATA Clasica 600 black , with slight variations asymmetry, change of angle , Less common are individually shaped hoods in the form of a pagoda Restart CPR004/164 CO , a pyramid with a rounded front surface Falmec Ginevra Parete 90 Boston or a half-ring-shaped casing Smeg KSE 89 A . Colors are completely identical to the ovens and cookers, the only decorations are the rims, rails and the buttons, rarely metal brackets.
Manufacturers offer another type of hoods – appliances with a light body and wooden edging on the bottom Elikor Rotunda, Elica Corallo, Kronasteel Gretta . Can be plain, carved, with a carved profile or with a carved backsplash. The hoods are decorated with decorative niches. Shaped like the Greek letter lambda, a truncated pyramid. Among these models also offer corner appliances.
Beauty in simplicity
Country style is very responsive to embellishment, and in general is sensitive to the beauty of simple things, hence the abundance of cute trinkets, fabrics, flowers.
Interiors are filled with handmade gizmos: baskets, jars, bottles.
The most common things look like they were bought in a tourist store because they are made of natural materials ceramic, wood and have the most unpretentious finishing.
And yet they are all practical for use in the household and for table service.
10 Rules of Country Interior
– Classic furniture with unpretentious decor.
– Large sinks and hobs, powerful railing systems.
– Mouled elements.
– Recessed cabinets and appliances.
– Craving for natural materials or using imitations of them.
– Common but lovely things become decorative elements in the interior: serving and cooking utensils, spice jars, trays, storage trays, bundles of pepper, onion, garlic, bottles of oil, old scales, etc. d.
– Possibility to combine things with history and newly acquired.
– Colors of nature.
– Natural fabrics.
– Live flowers and dried flowers.
Country style is a country style, or rather a special vision of country life through the prism of national traditions of the peoples of Europe and America, the peculiarities of local nature, climate and landscape.
What are some popular dishes in country cooking and how do they reflect the different aspects of country life?