What is Farmhouse Style Decorating?

If you are in love with popular farmhouse décor style or if you are still not familiar with this term let’s find out what makes a farm house style. As the name explains it’s the vibes of a farm.

But how do you bring this to a contemporary home? Let’s find out more.

I will keep this post just for the interior design and décor tips to create your dream farm house style home and let’s discuss about what architectural elements makes a contemporary farm house in a later day.

The bright side is that nowadays, you can have a farmhouse vibe without buying a new house. You need to re-décor! Here are some tips for you to get started:

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Use Neutral Colors, Shades and Textures

The first step is to get your space ready to decorate, paint your walls in neutral – tones, beiges, whites, grays and blacks, and muted versions of just about any color found in nature, whether it’s a warm or cool tone. Lighter tones of aqua, sage, and yellow could be fit in too.

Mix different textures and patterns, play with simple geometric patterns and florals in neutral colors to bring warm and cozy feeling to your space.

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Use Rustic Wood as Main Elements

Make rustic wood, woody tones and textures the base, use Shiplap, reclaimed wood, barn doors when ever possible, re use or repurpose your existing furniture and re decorate with new decor or accent pieces.

Expose and refinish your existing wooden structural or architectural elements, beams or posts to make it a feature with in your space. Use salvaged items and repurpose them as new elements.

Reuse, Repurpose or Reupholster Vintage Furniture

Don’t throw away old , good quality vintage furniture, may be you don’t like the colour of it, just give them a new look, sand it and stain with a new colour, painting with a white shade with some brush strokes to expose the woody texture wood create a new look to go with your farm house style decor. Or you could even take them apart and create new decor or a piece of furniture with it. Remember when ever you decide to reuse an old item you are contributing to save the mother earth too.

Select Your Accessories Carefully

Farm house style is all about showcasing unique handcrafted items and mixing them with modern pieces. Try not to overfill your spaces with all picture frames and other accessories, minimalism is the key, mix and match a few pieces of your favorite accent colour with neutral colour shades. Matte Gold, Muted Blue, Olive Green, Mauve to name a few.

Functionality

Remember to always use accessories and furniture with a purpose or function, try not to just make your space look better, practicality should be continued through out as it is the origin of this style.

Finally I have put together some gorgeous furniture and décor pieces available on Amazon to use in your home.

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