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Mediterranean interiorsFrench country home is a potpourri of bountiful bouquets, treasured books, photographs, scented candles and tabletop antiques. Scrolled iron work, carved armoires, towering hutches and buffets. Powdery blues with yellow and white - the bedroom can be simple or elegant, blissfully romantic and thoroughly feminine. With ribbon bows and lace panels billowing to the floor, European pillows, pure white, embroidered bed sheets, and definitely a bolster and lace edged duvet to enrich the feeling of a retreat and a touch of toile should be seen on the bed with a flowing bed canopy. Window Shutters create a continental air as well as providing a stylish window accent. The louvered variety allows plenty of light through and can be folded back individually, offering flexibility as curtains. Wooden shutters can be painted in any color to match the bedroom color scheme.TuscanTuscany, the region of central west Italy. Many of the colors associated with this area are named after the places whose soil and ores were the sources of color. Raw sienna is a reddish pigment that comes from the iron and manganese rich earth around the town of Siena. When roasted in a furnace, the pigment becomes richer, darker and more brilliant and then known as burnt sienna. The clay, sand and minerals of the region also provide umber, a greenish-brown color, yellow ochre, a muddy mustard yellow and the warm orange-hued terracotta. Walls and surfaces in this part of Italy are painted with these pigment finishes or with the paint equivalent, and tend to be matt with graduated, uneven washes of color that give a time-worn, sun-baked appearance. Fabrics are often dyed with printed in greens, blues and lavenders - inspired by the vines, olives and fields of lavender that grow in the region. Greek StyleVariations on the classic blue and dazzling white palette, relaxed, simple, harmonious, rustic with durable decor. Hallmarks of this refreshingly unpretentious style - pastel textured walls, pebbled floors, fretwork window screens, studded doors, mosaic tabletops and accented with an eclectic mix and exotic touch (a filigreed lantern, Moroccan dishware, a kilim rug, Moorish arches, Spanish-style wrought ironwork, bold simplicity with textural contrasts, will bring the Mediterranean into your home.

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Travel Theme Decorating