Furniture made with tree trunks, logs and branches: 11 ideas to furnish your home in a rustic style

When it comes to a rustic furnishing style, one cannot but immediately think of furniture and surfaces clad with wood. And treading at the moment are designs that incorporates entire trunks, logs and branches of trees. To make furniture such as coffee tables and étagères, but also to give life to bed frames, and more, wood is a very popular choice.

Using trunks and large logs is like filling your home with real trees - a bit like some mountain huts, where using wood in its "raw" state is the norm. Check out the ideas below to bring the magical atmosphere of a forest into your home:

When wood is shaped by the elements, it becomes a sculpture!

Armchairs and sofas can have legs, armrests and backrests decorated with twisted branches, debarked and polished to preserve the wood for generations. The seat is be a wooden plank, to be decorated with the cushions of your choice!

A trunk that is not too high can become a perfect decoration for the front entrance or placed under the stairs, with small shelves to place vases upon.

The more compact and shorter trunks can become bases for useful tables placed almost anywhere in the home.

An étagère (a piece of furniture with open shelves for displaying ornaments) made entirely of natural, wood branches: it will certainly be noticed.

Trunks with branches that reach upward are often chosen for columns on the four corners of a double bed.

And what about a tree growing in the bathroom? It will certainly make a bold statement when put in place artistically.

What child doesn't love a bunk bed? And who doesn't dream of frolicking in the woods? Here, a bed made entirely of logs and branches, becomes the setting for a thousand adventures.

Or maybe, you could copy the idea of a raised platform/treehouse in a corner of the playroom, with a sturdy trunk supporting it.

Have you ever thought that you could make a bar inside a tree trunk at home?

Or perhaps use a log in the kitchen as a brace for a countertop?

There are many ways to decorate with wood: which one would you like to try?