French Farmhouse Decor – The Ultimate Guide
What is French farmhouse style?
French farmhouse is an authentic, simple, and warm decorating style. Its four main characteristics are natural materials with a strong presence of wood, vintage furniture and decor, neutral hues, and practical and functional rooms.
It’s part of the French country trend but has a more marked rustic side.
Let’s see all this in detail.
Natural materials
Wood
Adopt wood as one of the main natural materials in your farmhouse style. Choose parquet on the floor, have exposed beams installed, and leave some of your furniture in raw wood.
The wood can also be stained, painted or distressed to give it a vintage effect and/or to lighten the room.
Stone
Stone floors are perfect for a farmhouse style, especially in the kitchen, entrance or bathroom. It’s natural and durable and gives a sense of authenticity to the home.
Metals
Iron, copper and brass are all-natural metals perfect for farmhouse style accessories. Think for example of wrought iron fixtures, iron chairs, or copper accessories.
Fabrics
Fabrics have a key role, especially for the farmhouse look. Think cozy blankets, plaid throws, and chunky knits to create a cozy and relaxed place.
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Vintage furniture and decor
Farmhouse style is often about putting together an eclectic mix of items.
Furniture and decor that look like they’ve been thrown together in a random room, but each have a function and purpose.
Mismatched dining chairs, placed around an antique dining table, with a more modern centerpiece can be a great choice, for example.
You want the furniture to look like it’s been pulled together over time into a friendly, beautifully done space.
Neutral colors
For a perfect farmhouse decor, the colors must be natural for furniture and accessories.
You need off-white, ecru, beige, taupe, linen, sand, brown…
To give pep to farmhouse decor, you can add a few touches of color, such as green which is particularly appreciated, an old pink, or a chalked blue.
They can be found on decorative elements such as throw pillows, a lamp or even a rug.
You can also choose to paint one wall in another color. I gathered for you all the best French paint colors right here.
But be sure to make color reminders for a harmonization of the whole.
Forget the colors that are too bright.
The right paint colors can take your space from “meh” to “WOW,”.
But the wrong choices can leave you feeling less than thrilled…
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Practical and functional rooms
You’ve probably noticed that with farmhouse design, everything has a purpose.
All objects have a reason to be there.
That’s not to say you can’t accessorize the way you want but always prefer practical and functional items.
If you over-accessorize with items that don’t evoke a room’s functions, you’re sure to create a confusing decorating feeling.
If you want to know what’s the difference between French farmhouse, French provincial and French chateau, I explain it all here.
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