Use Placemats for a Country Apple Kitchen Look

One of my favorite styles for kitchen decorating is a country apple look. Sure, you can use plenty of decorating on the walls and counters, but taking advantage of the table and the table linens make a good decor addition.

Kitchen table centerpieces and placemats are great way to carry your country apple theme across the room. Even if your eating table isn't right in the midst of the kitchen, it still works to continue your theme.

Table Linens for Decorating

I use plenty of table linens in my house. I'm lucky in that I have both a table in my kitchen as well as a dining room with a table there. So I can work with both tables to create my country apple look. I leave country apple placemats on my kitchen table all day. The family uses them for meals, but then the placemats continue to be part of my decorating.

In my dining room, I work with the centerpiece as my decorating on the table. The country apple look works very well with my antique oak table. And, yes, I set a placemat in the center then add my items to create the centerpiece.

Create Your Kitchen Theme

Actually, using a placemat in your theme works great to kick off the centerpiece. It can be a solid color that picks up your accent color in the rest of your kitchen decor. It can also be a matching one to your country apple placemats on the table. Either way, you have a great way to continue your kitchen decorating theme.

For easy home decorating, it's the accessories that can create your theme. So choose your decor style and your accessories, then get off and running with your own kitchen decor theme.

Create a Country Apple Kitchen

Any theme you want for your kitchen can be easily created with the accessories and accents to you add. For a country apple kitchen, you want to include a color scheme that works with the look of country.

The accessories you add can be as simple as dish towels, oven mitts and pot holders and country apple placemats for your table. There are plenty more apple accessories you can add to your kitchen, but if you want to keep it a bit simple, then consider using the color schemes found in these pieces to create your country apple kitchen look.

Colors for a county look tend to be darker and less vibrant. But, they can easily be brightened with lighter versions of the same color hue. Take a look at the country apple placemat featured above. Dark reds and greens are offset with tan. Light red tends to look pink, but lighter greens in the same hue will work very well.

White is another bright color that works great with a country apple look. Don't be afraid to accent the apple decor stuff like towels and pot holders with solid colors. Just pick the solid colors that you find in your other country apple decor items to bring a more pulled together look to your kitchen.