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The focal point of your French-themed bedroom has to be your traditional French wooden-framed double bed, there's no getting around that. To give your bedroom an elegant yet comfortable French colonial look, it's best to use your bed as the spring-board from which everything else flows. The colour-scheme, lighting and design should all start with the bed. Let's quickly look at three ways to enhance the French styling of your bedroom. Freshen Up Your Colour Scheme Adorn your bed with a beautiful French-themed floral bedspread and choose your room colors accordingly. If your bedspread is light-pink and pale-green or pale-blue, you can use this as inspiration for the wall colours and the rugs. As your double-bed is one large print, choose solid colours for the wallpaper, curtains and rugs and choose mini-prints for seat covers, lampshades and cushions. A traditional French-inspired scatter cushion like an Applique Heart Cushion is so gorgeous and neutral it will blend with all decor in any bedroom. A larger natural-coloured Ouest is great to place behind these heart-decorated cushions on beds to create a sense of depth. To style your bedroom with an elegant yet comfortable French-country look, it's important to stick closely within your chosen colour scheme. A charcoal-grey Ouest is one way you can create accents and tones even if you choose a scheme of quite pale colours. A Marais base and shade lamp is another way to infused French colonial style without disrupting your colour scheme. These lamps have a black metal base and a neutral off-white coloured shade with brown French script. The beautifully printed shade is a wonderful reminder of France and will compliment the pale shades of most floral prints without over powering them. Balance Your Lighting With The Rugs Bedrooms should be lighted evenly but not all of us have the ceiling-height to accommodate a beautiful French chandelier. Small bedside tables are an essential styling cue of a French-inspired bedroom and your choice of bedside light such as a Marais lamp needs to balance with the wood-type and colour of the table. One way you can compliment and pick out the beauty of your lights is by choosing the right floor rugs. A thick Narbonne rug in soft grey, blue or silver will perfectly compliment your French-colonial themed room. If your colour-scheme is full of light, pale colours then you'll be best off going for a grey rug that doesn't over-power the other colours in the room. By choosing a neutral rug, your choice of lights will more effectively highlight the floral print on your bedspread and the mini-prints elsewhere in your room. Scented To Perfection Often overlooked is the powerful effect that scent has on people's appreciation of a room. To really accent your bedroom's French colonial theme invest in room sprays and other ways to infuse the air with traditional French scents. A cotton fragrance room spray is a quick and easy way to give your room a touch of France – if you have synthetic flowers, they'll easily hold the scent of the spray for hours. Don't overlook the aromatherapy potential with some tastefully positioned French soaps; traditional scents such as Cinnamon and Orange, Honeysuckle and Coconut will finish off your bedroom's ambiance. Looking for French inspired bedroom ideas? Visit this website for more information.
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