| If you have a hunting lodge, or just a country | | | | America. This means that it is readily available, as |
| lodge or cabin retreat to get away from the daily | | | | the market is much wider than lodges or cabins, |
| stress of city life, then you have an opportunity | | | | and really embraces all country homes and |
| to create an ambience totally different from your | | | | farmhouses. |
| main city or town home. You can use a variety | | | | The use of floral fabrics and rustic styles in the |
| of appropriately designed and themed décor to | | | | lighting and other home necessities, goes as well in |
| create an atmosphere that is not only in keeping | | | | a country cottage as a hunting or holiday lodge. |
| with your rustic home from home, but quite in | | | | Even the kitchen can be an escape to the past, |
| contrast to that which you might normally have in | | | | but still modern in its function, with the use of |
| your main residence. | | | | vintage style pots and pans, antique style table |
| If you go to the lodge to get away from "normal" | | | | and chairs, vintage pot hangers and so on. Just |
| life, then a contrast in decor will add to that | | | | about every type of fitting, ornament, furniture |
| escapism. It is said that a change is as good as a | | | | item, or decoration can be found in a theme |
| rest, and a change in internal, as well as external, | | | | suitable for a lodge. |
| surroundings can make a significant contribution to | | | | Using vintage rustic styles for your lodge interior |
| the relaxed feeling you like to enjoy when you go | | | | can be taken a step further, by using a sub |
| for your weekend break or regular vacation. | | | | theme that is also in keeping with your |
| If the lodge is your own, then you will no doubt | | | | surroundings, and the purpose of the lodge. For |
| want to furnish and decorate it in a way that will | | | | example, if it is a hunting lodge, then you can |
| give you that sense of escapism, yet at the | | | | easily seek out fabrics, ornaments, decorations, |
| same time make it feel like "home". If yours is a | | | | furniture and utensils that feature moose or deer. |
| modern city home, with a light and bright modern | | | | If it is just a lodge for nature trekking and |
| interior, then an excellent contrast for your lodge | | | | enjoying the countryside, then broader nature |
| retreat is to seek out rustic décor that blends | | | | themes can be used, featuring local trees and |
| well. | | | | flowers, as well as animals familiar in the area |
| One thing that makes choosing lodge décor | | | | where the lodge is situated. |
| easier, is the way that old vintage styles fit so | | | | With a little bit of imagination, to visualize your |
| well in the lodge environment. The liberal use of | | | | ideal lodge interior design, and a bit of searching, |
| wood, especially dark wood, in furniture, wall | | | | you are sure to be able to create a rustic |
| hangings and ornaments, goes as well in a 16th | | | | ambience that will welcome you in the depths of |
| century country cottage in the English | | | | winter or the height of summer. |
| countryside, as it does in a modern lodge in North | | | | |