How Do You Add French Country Style?

How do you add French Country style to a room? Two pieces of furniture that add immediate French Country style to a room are a toile chair and a Provence style wood chest. Cover the chair in a blue and white toile print and paint the cabinet in navy to use a classic French color combination. 

Yes, even a laundry room becomes French Country style with those two pieces of furniture. 

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To give my laundry room a French Country look, I upholstered an existing chair.  The original floral fabric had seen better days and was more English country garden than French. 

New blue and white toile fabric added just the right colors and pattern design to complement the chair's French style legs.  

Toile scenes in multiple shades of blue and white go well with white tongue and groove walls and several shades of blue. 

Distressed white painted chair legs and white-washed tongue and groove ceiling add French farmhouse style. 

This small 18" wide floor cabinet is classic Provence style with its curved legs, recessed panel door, curved top and bottom, elaborate hardware, and wood tones. The cabinet needed no changes to look French Country.  

While searching for an affordable small cabinet to store cat food and supplies in the laundry room, I found this cabinet on the Home Depot internet site last year. Who would have known Home Depot carried reproduction French style cabinets? Unfortunately, the cabinet is no longer available. 

I liked the wood tones, but did not think the wood tones blended with the white-washed wall and ceiling woods and the new navy wall cabinets. 

By painting the floor cabinet in navy paint, the cabinet's color now coordinates with the wall cabinets and with the blue toile chair. 

A view from the side shows off the curved French edge of the cabinet's top.  

French Country style...   

a chair in blue and white toile upholstery and 

a small Provence floor cabinet in coordinating navy  

Read more about how I updated my laundry room as part of the One Room Challenge™ over six weeks. A complete source list of materials and products includes links for materials available this Fall.