| The graceful and sophisticated Tuscan home | | | | home décor takes its inspiration from. |
| décor originates in Tuscany - one of the most | | | | Since Roman times Tuscany has been a place for |
| beautiful and historical regions on earth. This region is | | | | travel and trade; this is how Tuscan designers got |
| also the birthplace of the renaissance and was home | | | | influenced by foreign styles from Egypt to India. In that |
| to Leonardo DaVinci, Michaelangelo, and Dante. Some | | | | vein, Tuscan home décor often features chairs |
| of the most iconic buildings in all of Europe are situated | | | | or stools on an X-shaped base, or planters on |
| here, including the leaning tower of Pisa and the | | | | pedestals just like those from ancient Greece. |
| Duomo Cathedral. No wonder Tuscan home | | | | Furniture in Tuscan home décor often includes |
| décor is so popular throughout the world | | | | many architectural elements. Chair and table legs are |
| evoking dreams of a beautiful place and bringing back | | | | carved like columns. Table stretchers and chair backs |
| memories of a wonderful vacation. | | | | are often carved exactly like the arches on |
| The basic colors of Tuscan home décor are | | | | renaissance buildings. The style, though geometric, is full |
| centered on earth tones. The land in Tuscany is fertile | | | | of movement and ornamentation. |
| and rich brown, planted with olive trees, crops and | | | | Pieces of Tuscan home décor are often |
| evergreens. These colors of brown, olive, and dark | | | | covered with mosaics: little pictures made of colored |
| green comprise the basics. Accent colors include brick | | | | tiles or pebbles cemented into a tabletop or floor. |
| red and beige mottled like old stucco. Tuscan style | | | | These mosaics remind of Tuscan cathedrals, which |
| paintings and accessories are often simple landscapes | | | | themselves took inspiration from Roman cathedral |
| depicting this natural beauty. | | | | mosaics. |
| Beginning in the fourteenth century, European | | | | Textures of famous Tuscan architecture are very |
| architecture began to change. Italian architect-artists | | | | much used in Tuscan home décor. Solid marble |
| like Giotto and Brunelleschi learned how to make | | | | and brown stone used in architecture can be used for |
| buildings taller, covered them with wide domes, and | | | | wall colors. If the budget allows, real marble |
| supported them with the most slender columns. They | | | | accessories like countertops might be used. Stacked |
| loved symmetry, heavy ornament, scrolling ironwork, | | | | stone in the yard or a rustic stone fireplace make the |
| and floor mosaics. These principles are where Tuscan | | | | décor feel even more authentic. |