A Guide to Interior Design Styles: Farmhouse

Any home can have the farmhouse vibe of rustic and cozy. It’s easy to achieve when you decorate with a simple organic approach and keep things classic-looking, elegant, and comfortable.

Incorporating a wide variety of accessories and furnishings not only create the farmhouse style but it adds (your) personality to your home. Highlight any element you like with finer details and tweaks and you will have your very own farmhouse.

Here are some easy and tried-and-true farmhouse looks for you to try:

Relaxed and White

Most modern farmhouse-style homes are dominated by the color white, and for good reason. The farmhouse style’s roots are in frugality and accessibility to modern materials (or lack thereof). As such, early farmhouse home owners had limited painting budgets, so they went for the simple, all-white look. For a touch of color, beige or cream can also work. However, for the most traditional farmhouse look, stick to white.

A Market-Inspired Open Kitchen Concept

The kitchen is the heart of most homes, and even more so in a farmhouse-style home. A farmhouse-style kitchen keeps things open, uncomplicated, and vibrant.

While the color scheme is neutral, white or natural wood, do incorporate an eclectic mix of furnishings such as vintage stenciled signs and exposed bulb lighting with metal cages. Use curtains on open shelves to hold dishes and hang pots from the ceiling. This is a farmhouse kitchen, it’s meant to feel lived and worked in.

Wood typically makes a statement in farmhouse kitchens with butcher block countertops and kitchen islands. Another kitchen staple is the ubiquitous farmer’s sink. You can go with the classic ceramic white sink bowl or the double sink. Both are popular and for good reason, they are beautiful and functional large deep kitchen sinks for all of your kitchen and cooking needs.

Open baskets and shelves will give your kitchen a market-like feel and solidify that farmhouse look. Dishes stored on outer shelves, onions, potatoes, apples, and other staples in wire baskets or wooden bowls will add to the eclectic look and feel of your farmhouse-style kitchen. All of these things make a kitchen warm, inviting, and open—just like any good farmhouse kitchen should be.

Mix Textures

Another great way to get that farmhouse feel is by mixing textures and materials. Rarely does everything in a farmhouse match. Instead, mix fabrics, furniture styles and types and add metal touches like special lamp fixtures. This will give your home a more rustic feel.

Furniture can be combinations of cozy couches and antique wooden rocking chairs. Mix textures like a neutral jute or vintage rug with hardwood flooring, and pillows and throws with hard backed chairs.

Farmhouses love light. It’s all about bright open areas so use lighting wherever you can to evoke a farmhouse feel. One great way to evoke a barn house or stable-like feel is with matching Double X Barn Doors and evocative metal framed lighting throughout.

Vintage with a Modern Touch

Blending the vintage with the modern, this style places function ahead of picture-perfect. And, it can be fun to add to your vintage collection. Check out your local antique show for some eclectic decor to add to your farmhouse.

Finally, you can easily embrace the farmhouse look without going in for a major remodel. Sliding barn doors are a great way to bring farmhouse to your decor. They can be customized for any design style and are a fast and affordable option.

Whatever interior design style you choose, contact us to discuss how you can use custom barn doors in your space today.