- 1). Choose your colors. Select bright blues, yellows and reds like those found in the Spanish Mediterranean. Counter the bright hues with soft white and light brown, like the walls in a French farmhouse. Opt for the natural color palette of a Tuscan villa: olive green, wine red and burnished yellow.
- 2). Stucco your walls or paint over drywall with textured paint to give the rough appearance of plaster applied over time. Choose vineyard-themed wallpaper.
- 3). Lay your floors. Choose wide planks and leave them unfinished to age naturally. Install terra-cotta tiles to resemble the floors of a Spanish mission or grand hacienda. Choose natural field stone, brick or cobblestone to evoke the floors in a Tuscan kitchen worn smooth with time. Dot the floors with sisal or rag rugs for a casual California vibe, or spread a plush Oriental area rug. Leave the floors bare as in a simple French farmhouse.
- 4). Decide on furniture. Give Spanish or Tuscan flair to your vineyard-inspired home with dark, heavy pieces featuring wrought iron hardware and trim, or choose some with copper, silver or brass highlights. Evoke a simple farmhouse in the wine region of France with handcrafted utilitarian pieces, like weathered farm tables, armoires and ladder-back chairs. Mix and match eras and styles to achieve the eclectic style of Northern California. Center your bedroom with a rustic armoire while creating a reading area with two curvy, upholstered slipper chairs that would have been at home in the dressing room of a French queen.
- 5). Bring your vineyard decorating scheme together with the details. Hang a grapevine wreath on your front door. March a trio across the wall at the head of your bed; highlight them with faux grapes and sunflowers. Drape grapevines from window trim, pot racks and the tops of armoires. Highlight them with faux bunches of grapes. Install a floor-to-ceiling wine rack in your dining room or kitchen. Display a collection of wine glasses from a variety of vineyards on your fireplace mantel. Hang a vineyard-inspired painting or print above your bed, or display a grouping in your dining room, kitchen or living room. Visit a winery and take pictures; frame the ones you like best for a less expensive and more personal way to bring the vineyard spirit into your home. Train a grapevine to wind around a porch column or trail from a pergola.