Rustic sofa beds: retro style for your home

How to furnish a rustic living room: mountain or seaside home?

The rustic style is one of the most popular furnishing styles for homes in mountain or hillside settings or for those who love wood also for a beach house. The use of this material is never ‘old‘; on the contrary, the modern rustic style is increasingly in vogue.

To start furnishing a living room in rustic style, the choice of furniture is important. Solid, natural wood furniture that harmonises with the structural elements of the house such as beams, pillars and a brick fireplace prevail.

Besides a wooden sideboard or a wooden table, the star of a vintage living room is a rustic wooden sofa. Let’s discover together which rustic sofas you can buy to furnish a retro-style living room.

Rustic style: materials and colours

The prevailing material of the rustic style is undoubtedly wood, in all its countless chromatic varieties, since it contributes to creating a lived-in feeling thanks to its warm and cosy tones: good, therefore, to exposed beams, to be combined then with other furnishing elements also in wood. Other materials typical of the rustic style are stone and brick: one idea is to opt for classic bricks or cement to be left in view, combined with stone tiles on the floor or walls.

Colour choices are then essential to give that enveloping and warm feeling that smells ‘of home’: yes to classic shades of white, such as cream, beige and rope, but also earthy colours such as brown, sand and green. In the modern variant, it is also good to opt for touches of dove grey and grey, to freshen up the combinations a little.

Rustic wooden sofas: quality and craftsmanship in a single piece of furniture.

Rustic wooden sofas differ from the sofas we are used to seeing in their vintage style. First of all, the exposed wooden structure strikes the eye. It can be of different types of wood: pine, fir, oak and many others. The essential thing is that the grain of the wood is emphasised. And this is where the master craftsmen know how to treat the wood, bringing out its most salient features. They use special paints, usually water-based, which highlight the knots and grains of this valuable material, protecting the nature of the wood and people.

The choice of material for the creation of a sofa with a wooden structure is the result of a careful selection by companies and craftsmen, and its processing requires professionalism and undoubtedly a propensity for environmental protection. In fact, ‘quality‘, typical of Made in Italy, is obtained from a good relationship between the choice of raw materials and eco-sustainable manufacturing processes.

Rustic sofa: models and materials

The rustic wooden sofa is the most popular for vintage furniture. There are a variety of models: with or without armrests, from minimalist designs to more elaborate ones that echo the retro style of the 1950s. Then there are the more modern shabby chic sofas in shades of white, beige and dove grey, typical of contemporary furniture.

Essentially, rustic sofas are small in size: no bigger than a 2-seater sofa. The reason is to be found in the practicality of these sofas, usually placed in a living room or kitchen together with other furniture such as coffee tables, rugs, and armchairs that match the sofa itself.

For a retro style, in addition to wood, sofas can be made of other materials. Perfect for vintage furniture are wrought iron sofas for indoor or outdoor use. On the market, they can be found in the sofa-bed version. This sofa model is also versatile and can be placed in small rooms due to its non-excessive dimensions.

Rustic wooden sofa bed: the timeless piece of furniture

Rustic wooden sofa beds are the furniture that has characterised our grandmothers’ homes for decades. Together with a large table and a bench mounted along the wall, the wooden sofa bed could not be missed, perhaps in front of the fireplace with red bricks, and if necessary it became a practical bed.

Today, rustic wooden sofa beds are those found in B&Bs, inns, motels, and in mountain settings in general such as huts, chalets, and holiday homes. In addition to being made of wood, mountain sofa beds can also be fully upholstered for a classic-modern style.

Here, the materials and especially the choice of colours make the difference. Mountain sofa upholstery is full of bows, cords and patterns. However, in order not to fall into an overly classic style, you can opt for a plain-coloured upholstery in shades that match the wood of the walls and windows, such as beige and brown, with contrasting decorative cushions.