Half-timbered – rustic yet modern

Cozy country house style is preferred by many people. Those who love it a little more rural and rustic, can find out more about the half-timbered house and have their apartment beautified or beautified in a half-timbered style. Because this work is very time-consuming and requires fairly good manual skills, certain knowledge and skills as well as professional advice and support. A simple example of this is the design of the walls. With this type of wall beautification, the plaster must not hit the wood directly. The reason for this is that wood is a natural building material that changes shape and volume over time. This can cause unwanted cracks to appear in the newly designed walls.

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The half-timbered wall is the basis for every rustic home furnishings and if you want to design your home according to the half-timbered style, you should design the walls first. Half-timbering needs structure. For this you need a half-timbered pattern made of natural wood, which is attached to the wall. In between there are open spaces. These should then be filled with plaster. Anyone who has manual skills and the appropriate specialist knowledge could also do this job on their own. Otherwise, it is advisable to look for a trusted, detailed craftsman who will conscientiously fill out this work so that there are no cracks and cracks in the walls later. The plaster is mixed with a special tool, known as a brush, and applied to the wall unevenly so that the typical rustic look is achieved. Then a mineral plaster primer is first applied before the fine plaster can also be applied unevenly to the wall. This achieves the typical rustic effect of half-timbered walls.

Nowadays many people want to turn away from the hectic society with the stressful everyday life. Half-timbered houses are a great way to do this. They create a fairytale cosiness by offering simple, historic living that is currently in great demand.

When it comes to furnishing half-timbered houses, there is a lot of freedom for creativity and individual style. Depending on your taste, you can now furnish your rustic half-timbered house classically in a country house style. Typical country house furniture will complete the rural ambience. Of course, the whole thing can also be interpreted in a more modern way by choosing furniture in the currently particularly popular shabby chic style, including vintage style. Old and new belong together here. A few unique items such as chairs, stools, tables and chests of drawers from the flea market or some extravagant chests and boxes that you can buy from the flea market will feel right at home in a half-timbered house. The intended traces of use on the furniture and other home accessories from the old days will give the overall appearance of the rooms an individual, cozy atmosphere and a lot of country house charm.

But the contrast between modern and tried and tested is also in demand. This contrast in interior design is called a break in style. If you want to approach the matter puristically, you can combine the rustic-looking wall cladding in the background with really chic and extravagant designer furniture. This is how the modern pieces of furniture are properly staged, because in addition to the rather unconventional wall design, they quickly become a visual highlight in the room. The result is a unique composition with a bizarre charm, in which old and new merge tastefully.

Another option for interior design in a country house style is to be inspired by the Mediterranean furnishing style. The English country style with the typical, heavy and massive leather upholstered furniture offers an excellent option for furnishing the half-timbered house. Cabinets with natural surfaces and natural, decorative accessories round off the overall atmosphere. The home accessories should definitely be made of stylish material in order to create more authenticity in the rooms of the half-timbered house. Natural materials such as clay, ceramics, stone and wood are the elements that perfect this style and make it shine. Flea markets and small shops for antiques are an inexhaustible source of inspiration for this, because it is there that you can browse for unique antique pieces for your apartment. You can not only enjoy the charm of the newly acquired piece. Often times, great bargains are half the fun themselves. And even more – in this way you can find wonderful, unusual things for the design of your home, which correspond to your own style and your personal idea of ​​cosiness much better than a brand-new furniture.

Styles and epochs blend into a harmonious whole in our picture gallery selected for you. The best thing to do is to see for yourself what charming living spaces can be created by combining old and new!