Country kitchen home decor can be very whimsical. You can really craft these items yourself and your kids can even help you. This allows you to bring in your own unique color palette and also get very functional kinds of items in your space. The really great thing about this kind of style is that it does rely so heavily on salvage items. This allows you to build up your craft closet over time with pieces that you find.

One thing that you should stock up on are old cookbooks. It doesn’t matter if they are damaged. You can just keep these kinds of items to use for decoupaging projects. In fact you might even be able to just layer them on the walls in the place of wallpaper if you’re very careful about your application. You also need to make sure that this isn’t going to be exposed to a lot of water.

Another thing that you should have are tea bags or coffee bags. This allows you to do a lot of staining. It allows you to give an aging process to a variety of items and materials and you might already have this in your cupboard. If you want a more dramatic kind of flair then you might need a glazing medium which is going to allow you to tint a lot of different colors so that that you get a distressed effect on cabinets or your furniture.

You should also really keep tin on hand. This could also be copper depending on the metal colors that you already have in your room. You can buy these kinds of kits at craft stores. Pressed tin elements can really add a lot to your room. You can hang them on the wall or use them as accents on your cabinets. This is going to allow you to bring in a variety of silhouettes or you could even just punch out different words or letters to hang on the wall for a custom kind of look.