Wood elements dominated the early colonial home. Consider hardwood floors, wood paneling, wainscoting and wood moldings for your colonial home design. Choose bead board or whitewashed kitchen cabinetry, along with built-in, corner cabinets that were common in the homes of this period. To complete the early colonial style, install iron or brass handles on cabinet doors.
Furnishings
Furnish your early colonial home with rustic pieces. Instead of matching furniture sets, choose an eclectic arrangement, such as a combination of mismatched, ladder-back chairs around a farmhouse table. Bench seating is another option representative of this era. Many early colonial living spaces featured furniture with simple lines, often crafted by the homeowner whose carpentry skills focused on function rather than design. Furnishings were typically made with maple and hickory, and upholstered with durable fabrics of cotton, wool and linen. Some early colonial style accent pieces to consider in your home include wooden settees, blanket chests and rocking chairs.
Fireplace
While some later colonial homes had a fireplace in every room, many early Colonial homes relied on a single fireplace for heat. All of the cooking was also done at the fireplace, so many settlers truly looked to the hearth as the heart of the home. An iron, swinging crane was used to hang cooking kettles over the fire, while other kettles were placed directly atop hot coals. Place iron or copper kettles on your hearth, as decorative accents that call back to colonial times. The room with the fireplace was called the “keeping room,” where families ate, slept and gathered for warmth in the cold months. Reclaim the fireplace as a gathering area in your home. Set a rug on the floor or place rocking chairs in front of the fireplace. Drape handmade quilts over the backs of the chairs. Set a painted and distressed, wooden table in front of the fireplace to create a warm, inviting place to enjoy a board game, snack or meal.
Home Accents
Provide early colonial style lighting in the form of wrought iron wall sconces, oil lamps and candles. Accessorize with handcrafted items, such as braided rugs, quilts, framed needlework and pieces of pottery. Display cast-iron and brass cookware on open-shelved cabinets. Put wicker baskets to work as decorative laundry hampers, wastebaskets and storage bins. Use fresh and dried flowers, pinecones, leaves and acorns to create decorative table pieces and hanging displays. Place antique, colonial pieces, such as a quilt rack, weaving loom, or washboard as historical accents throughout the home.
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