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Painted Furniture Adds More Than Just Color
by The Coach Barn Designers
Painted furniture adds more than just color to your room. 
When it is artfully applied, it alters the very nature of the piece often evoking another time and place. With various hand-applied crackle and distressed finishes, new furniture can achieve an old, antique look. As far as color, there is probably no color more associated with country decor than the color blue. It's been a classic element of country design that has stood the test of time. But it's not just fabrics and accessories that can give you a true-blue country look--antique blue furniture can definitely create interest in your country home. You can either fill up a room or just use it as an accent piece. In addition, you can combine it with other colors. We offer several blue finishes including one of our best-selling colors, Antique Blue. 
Another decorating tip is to add one or two black accent pieces in a room for a professional decorated look. Depending on your personal taste and to what extent you would like to achieve an antiquated look, we offer several Black options with none, minimal or heavy distressing. If you would like to add texture and depth to a black finish, you can request Heavy Crackle No Distressing to produce a fine crackle effect in the finish without distressing.
As far as incorporating painted furniture in a home, not too many rules apply; it could work in any room in the house. You will want to consider the overall color scheme of the space and choose paints that harmonize. One piece can make a bold statement, while several -- a dining table and chairs or a coffee table and console, for example -- can work as a set. Painted wooden furniture can also complement exposed-grain pieces, each highlighting the other. We particularly recommend the combination of our black, antique blue or celadon Dijon Chairs or Tenby Splat Back Chairs with our Highlands Pine Vineyard Table. We also recommend adding one of our kitchen islands to totally transform your kitchen into a Dream Kitchen! A kitchen island serves many purposes by giving you both extra storage and work areas along with providing you with an entertaining area where family and guests would gather for memorable conversations. We suggest adding a pair of our French Montmartre Counter Stools to match the finish of your island (see our own kitchen island above).
Have confidence that your furniture will never go out of style. Pieces have been painted for hundreds of years in Europe and America and they are sure to stand the test of time. Coach Barn offers you a large selection of furniture pieces that can be customized with over 25 unique finishes including a 15-step hand-applied finish of a single antique color over a dark-base coat crackled with distressing. Craftsmen beautifully apply hand distressed finishes that artfully reveal layers of rich color. So use your imagination and add some furniture pieces that are new but are made to appear old to add special decorating touches throughout your home.
To show the fine craftsmanship of our furniture pieces, above are samples of finishes offered in our European Reproduction Furniture Collection including our Mayfair Kitchen Island in Terra Cotta Canterbury Crackle.
Vanities Can Reflect Good Taste In Bath Design
by The Coach Barn Designers
With nothing more to the bathrooms of yesteryear than a sink, toilet, and mirror, we were offered little choice about where our focus should fall once through the bathroom door.
The Afterthought
The bathroom used to be the afterthought of home building and design. Bathroom design kept to the basics: A toilet, sink-cabinet combo, and perhaps some tile. Add some color matching, a couple of wall hangings, and of course, the mirror, and voila: your task was complete!
In hindsight, designing yesterday’s bathroom was really a simple and efficient process that was uninspiring, unimaginative and dull.
With limited choices and prohibitive pricing, vanities of distinction rarely entered the equation for a homeowner.
The Fine Furniture Revolution
The rethinking of bathroom designs came with the increasing availability of reasonably-priced middle and high-end vanity sink chests. With foreign imports driving down the cost and increasing the availability of fine furniture for every room in the home, builders and consumers began to consider investing more design dollars in the room guests very often visit -- the powder room. By choosing vanity styles to coincide with their home's overall design genre, consumers have driven expansion in the vanity/sink chest market that produced a bevy of elegant and affordable products. English Cottage vanities, French Provincial style sink chests, and hand-painted and hand-carved furniture sinks -- the vanity market has truly embraced the realm of fine furniture. Never before have vanity choices been so plentiful or bathroom sink design concepts so broad. It's not the usual sink and cabinet combo anymore -- it's a whole new ball game.
A Statement Piece - A Statement Place
Make your vanity a virtue and let your vanity make a statement about you. Make a gorgeous vanity the focal point of your bath, and with a painted canvas work of art, some carefully contemplated accessories, and perhaps even a beautiful chandelier, allow the bathroom to complement your taste and your commitment to design throughout your home.
Don’t reflect too long before deciding it’s time for a beautiful furniture vanity in your fine home. I promise you’ll love yourself for it! The top left picture is our English Cottage Vanity, the top right picture is our Petite Perigord Vanity and the bottom left picture is our Bow Front Vanity.
