Country Furniture Online

I love being invited into someone’s home when they still have the old family pieces of furniture, especially when there has been grandma’s level of care attached to them.   The modern way of thinking includes such instruction as dusting off each piece with eithr a dry lint free duster or very soft brush to remove loose dust from all surfaces.  Sometimes it will be necessary to carefully reach the out of the way places with a vacum cleaner brush attachment.   You have to take care not to knock the corners or cornices.   Next dilute some mild washing up liquid and rinse out a cleaning cloth in it, wringing it out very well so it is barely damp.  Must not be more damp as that will ruin the furniture.  A very gentle wipe over grain of the surface to remove dirt, will be all that’s needed.  Dry off thoughourly with another soft dry cloth.  it is critical not to wet the surface, if your cloth is too damp, take steps to blot it dry with copious cloths.

It’s faunny thing the way the brain works.   Whenever I think of the very very large scandinavian furniture and household emporium, I automatically think of a modern purpose built apartment or town house.  Their starkly practical and modern ethos that means everything has to have a function and more if possible, no frills, just good honest pricing with modern materials, it’s hard to picture some of their plainer pieces in a country house setting.  There is something so perfect about the prospect of opening up a gorgeous solid oak front door, to reveal oak tables and chairs, chesterfield sofas and everything from a previous period.  There’s no reason why modernist furniture can’t be placed in the same setting though.   There are many places where simple lines in an old home look especially effective – highlighting the amount of space and breathing room a large house offers!  Their kitchens are fantastic too – and no one replaces and old kitchen with another old one, they are alwayts ultra modern chrome and white!

There does seem to be a natural corrolation with the sound of Country Living and rich antique looking furniture.  for some reason my brain fails to make an instant connection between a pretty country cottage and scandinavian minimalism and modern no frills furniture.  There’s absolutely no reason why someone wouldn’t want the clean lines and unfussy nature of their rubberwood and new manufactured designs.   There is just something that doesn’t sit so comfortably – quite literally.  I own several pieces of start modern no frill furniture which we bought as we moved into our very unromantic detached family house.  I also own some attractive oak furniture – which does not look even slightly antique.  It is a funn o9ld thing how my brain has a definite thought process, dictated entirely upon sterio type thinking and not actually being exposed to the joys of actually enjoying country living.  Though it must be said that I do live on the edge of a village – no chocolate box cottages here sadly.