Living Room

• Decorate your traditional living room with comfortable, upholstered furniture made from striped silks, floral brocades or solid, natural leather. You can mix and match the type and print of the fabrics in a traditional living room, as long as the colors and designs complement each other. Plaids are used in both traditional and country-style living rooms. Red is a prevalent color in country-style homes and, matched with shades of blue, green and brown, also may be found in traditional living rooms.
  
  Country living rooms may have mismatched wood furniture that blends well, like pine and oak; however, traditional living rooms are defined by matching woods, often cherry or mahogany. Arrange the furnishings around a focal point, like a fireplace, bay window or entertainment center.
  
  

Bedroom

• Your traditional bedroom may include a four-poster bed with tall, decorative posts or shorter, Queen Anne-style posts with a decorative headboard. Country bedrooms also may include a poster bed, but the furniture is typically made from pine or oak, rather than cherry or mahogany as in the traditional bedroom. Country bedroom furniture is not as polished as in a traditional bedroom, with mismatched pieces working together as they do in a country living room. Floral, plaid and chintz fabrics cover the bedding and the seating in both styles of bedrooms. A traditional bedroom may have a bed bench to match the other bedroom furniture; a country bedroom may have a cedar chest.
  
  

Kitchen

• A country kitchen may include glass-panel doors on some of your upper cabinets or copper pots hanging over an island. You can paint or stain your wooden cabinets in a variety of shades and colors, from creamy beige to deep red, depending on the type of wood you select. Pine and oak are popular choices for country kitchens, both for the cabinets and flooring. Decorate your traditional kitchen with oak, cherry or maple cabinets and floors, in an array of color choices from rich brown to bright white. The glass panels in a traditional-kitchen cabinet door often do not have panes, but may have vertical mullions or be beveled, frosted or etched. Built-in plate racks are common accessories in a traditional kitchen; country kitchens have decorative shelving. Both country and traditional kitchens may have exposed brick, butcher-block counter tops and stenciled walls.