Country: calico & gingham, pinewood furniture with heart cutout, handmade baskets, faded looking, 1930s look, muted tones and neutrals
Modern: sleek, shiny, hard surfaces, sharp lines, Black and White, monotone, crisp colors, saturated brights.
These are some typical looks. Make a list of your own, as a point of departure for your dialogue with your client. Better yet, show her some quilting books, magazines and websites where quilts are shown. Let her point and choose.
Get a copy of the book: this description gives some excellent clues to use: Modern Country
by Nancy Ingram blends the quiet, simple elegance of classic country with a clean, modernist edge to create an entirely new interior genre. When classic country is infused with modern interior design, it becomes bolder. It offers a contemporary attitude, a confident feel that mixes periods, patterns, and pedigrees but embraces the element of restraint. As noted photo stylist and author Nancy Ingram says, "Mix it up and pare it down!"
Modern Country interiors are fresh and lively, with color palettes that include the classics, but combined in new ways or intensities. Monochromatic themes-restful, quiet, calming hues-come into their own in Modern Country. There are no rules-only creative ideas and the courage to blend new with old, traditional with modern, to forge a look that is inviting, warm and even whimsical.