How to Achieve the Colonial Style in Your Home
The colonial style is a cornerstone of American homes. It has a simple, minimalist design that reflects the styles of Early America. Many homeowners like to embody this style throughout the furniture and decor in their homes but don’t know where to start. At King’s Impressions, we offer many different styles of furniture, including colonial, that will provide you with the aesthetics you want to achieve. Here is how to achieve the colonial style for your home decor with King’s Impressions.
What is the Colonial Style?
Originating in the American colonial period, this style reflects the needs of the settlers, prioritizing practicality in its designs. Since the settlers were mostly of European descent, the colonial style was influenced by the Victorian style. The settlers just used more practical and localized materials to make the furniture and reflect the values of that time. The colonial style is timeless and elegant, showcasing clean lines that embrace the natural beauty of wood. It utilizes simple and functional designs that can create highly versatile aesthetics that never go out of style.
Decorating with the Colonial Style
The colonial style uses a lot of clean lines and subtle curves to add visual appeal to your space while still being simple. When decorating with this style, focus on symmetry and classic color palettes to make your space warm and inviting. Neutral and earthy tones create an understated elegance, especially if you do lighter wall colors with darker furniture. Using design-supporting furniture like rocking chairs, chests, and bookcases, and natural materials like linen, wool, leather, and wood will elevate your decor. Lighting, like table and floor lamps, is also common in this style.
King’s Impressions’ Colonial Collections:
Here at King’s Impressions, we have a few furniture collections and pieces that embrace the colonial style. These furniture styles will help you elevate your decor while embracing simplicity.
Santa Monica Collection
Our Santa Monica Collection for dining room furniture has a timeless simplicity and understated elegance to it. It celebrates the colonial Shaker style, giving an old-fashioned charm to your space. This collection is handcrafted in Holmes County, Ohio, to add sophistication to your dining room. It offers dining tables and chairs, buffets, hutches, and more to create a beautiful dining space for you and your guests. This simple and functional collection has a timeless design with a quality that will last for generations.
Wilkensburg Collection
Our Wilkensburg Collection for bedroom furniture uses straight lines to display a classic country style. This collection has a smooth finish as it is designed to fill the practical needs of usability and high quality. It’s a beautiful example of the colonial style, using stunning, but simple, details to dress up the classic styles of the Shaker style. The Wilkensburg Collection offers a bed, nightstands, dressers, and chests to give you lots of storage for your bedroom. The careful attention to detail and skilled craftsmanship are displayed with this collection’s turned feet on the storage furniture and dovetail drawers.
Styling with Bookcases and Cupboards
Make the most of your living and dining spaces with a bookcase or cupboard. Our colonial-style bookcases and cupboards offer a classic wooden look for your home while showing off the old-fashioned but timeless designs of the time. These furniture pieces provide more storage space in your home. Our corner cupboards allow you to have storage out of the way in the corner of a room, maximizing the space in your floor plan. They allow you to display tchotchkes, books, and dinnerware for extra decor, with the colonial wood pairing giving a classic feel to the space.
Achieving the colonial style in your home is easy with King’s Impressions’ furniture. We offer many different furniture collections, not just in the colonial style, that will look great with any home’s design. Our highly durable heirloom furniture is built to last by our skilled craftsmen, ensuring your pieces will last a lifetime. Contact us today to find furniture perfect for you.