Ideas for a Front Room With a Wine Theme

Wine Colors

• Splash wine colors all over the room, forming the visual palette. You may wish to choose at the outset whether you prefer a cool, light palate inspired by white wines or an intense, opulent palate inspired by red wines. Paint the walls a golden-pear yellow, like a fruit wine, and accent with light-colored wood and shades of white. Or, if you like decorative intensity, paint the walls burgundy and use dark wood and accents of aubergine.

Wine Furnishings

• Pick furnishings that evoke wine or the wine-making process. For example, spread out a plush deep-purple rug that welcomes bare feet, paying sensory homage to the barefoot grape-stomping of old-fashioned wine making. Construct or purchase a light fixture woven with dried grapevines. Put out chairs made of wood reclaimed from an antique French barn. Don't forget a wine rack and a few bottles. Place a music station in the room so you can play your favorite relaxing music while you hold wine tastings or entertain guests.

Wine Art

• Hang art on the walls of the front room that depicts wine or is somehow related to wine. You don't have to adorn the room with a bunch of still-life paintings of grapes and wine glasses. Frame reproduction posters of fin-de-siecle Parisian cafe advertisements or hang a single Old-Master-style painting of a vineyard in Bordeaux, France. Landscape photos of famed wine-producing regions from Chile to New Zealand to Napa, California could also enhance the ambience.

Wine Bottle Details

• Sprinkle wine bottle accents throughout the room in subtle ways. Cut the necks from wine bottles and etch them with patterns or words -- such as words forming a line from a poem -- and line them up on a windowsill. Use wine bottles as vases, each holding a single long-stemmed rose. Wine bottles can also be used as incense holders. Use tumbled wine-bottle glass to make a mosaic for the top of a cafe table.