#Country or Rustic Kitchen Design Ideas

Call Them Rustic, Call Them Country, These Kitchens Put You In a Relaxed Mood

By Lee Wallender. Home Renovations Expert

As the ultimate know-nothing beginner, Lee Wallender's first experience with home renovation was remodeling a 100 year-old house.

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The country style in American home design is not just one thing.  Just when you have it in your head that country means roosters on the wall and hammered copper cabinet faces, you look at a kitchen like this one, above, and see how malleable the concept really is.

Country does not mean unsophisticated or crude or barren.  It can translate to spare and clean, dominated by simple shapes that do the job without much fuss.

It can translate to:  lots of white of differing shades.  White on white style usually signifies rustic.

Tossing a rocking chair into the mix doesn t make anything country or rustic.  But those roughly hewn raw, unpainted, unstained, unsealed shelves are rustic.