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So I’ve been seeing all these “farmhouse style†home decor posts on my Pinterest feed.

 

All these pale colors, white or light colored sofas, artsy doodads.

 

And they puzzle me. I mean they shouldn’t. Because I live in an actual farmhouse.

 

And here in my real farmhouse—-that’s not what I see.

 

I have a stainless steel milker in the floor. There is that basket of eggs on the counter but they have a little poop and dirt on them. And no light pale colors here. My word that’d be stained yesterday and who has time to wash slipcovers on the couch every third day?

 

Boots next to the door. No cute ones because the cute ones tear up too fast. No our boots are industrial boring black and they’re coated in dried mud. So you can imagine what my floors are like.

 

And that pretty coat rack on the wall with a red yellow and blue coat hanging there all artistically? Hmmm. My sweat and manure stained carhart coats are brown black and dark green.

 

Who invented this farmhouse style? Because it doesn’t look anything like my reality. Maybe I need to redecorate. Will a new coat of paint (pale gray instead of my sunny yellow) make my farmhouse really look like a farmhouse?

 

 

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So I’ve been seeing all these “farmhouse style†home decor posts on my Pinterest feed.

 

All these pale colors, white or light colored sofas, artsy doodads.

 

And they puzzle me. I mean they shouldn’t. Because I live in an actual farmhouse.

 

And here in my real farmhouse—-that’s not what I see.

 

I have a stainless steel milker in the floor. There is that basket of eggs on the counter but they have a little poop and dirt on them. And no light pale colors here. My word that’d be stained yesterday and who has time to wash slipcovers on the couch every third day?

 

Boots next to the door. No cute ones because the cute ones tear up too fast. No our boots are industrial boring black and they’re coated in dried mud. So you can imagine what my floors are like.

 

And that pretty coat rack on the wall with a red yellow and blue coat hanging there all artistically? Hmmm. My sweat and manure stained carhart coats are brown black and dark green.

 

Who invented this farmhouse style? Because it doesn’t look anything like my reality. Maybe I need to redecorate. Will a new coat of paint (pale gray instead of my sunny yellow) make my farmhouse really look like a farmhouse?

Clearly, you have been doing it wrong all these years.

 

Thank goodness Pinterest is here to set you straight. ;)

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I find it way too trendy, and I typically find trendy to be ugly.  I do have light gray walls, and like white kitchens, but the rest of the house isn't farmhouse at all.  It's traditional.  Dark woods, antiques, oriental rugs, and lots of books.

 

In my mind, real boots and real mud and real dirt on the eggs is the way a farm is supposed to look.

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Haha. This is so timely because we're redoing our kitchen, and so much of the decor I'm looking at (area rugs, paint colors) are "farmhouse."

 

I grew up on a farm. A grain farm, no animals. Our farmhouse was a late-70s brick ranch, with brown carpet and dark paneling. Probably to hide all mud.

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Nearly every farmhouse I've ever been in (dairy farming area) had fly paper someplace--maybe just the back porch or mud room, but it was there.

Oh gosh yes!

 

In the summer I hang it over the kitchen sink. This lovely kitchen embellished with a garland of dead flies and gnats!!!!

 

 

 

 

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I agree with you 100%.  I live in an almost 200 year old farmhouse, although the property is no longer a farm.  Our Carhartts are dark-colored, and our boots certainly aren't cutesy!  And our small boys will destroy any light colored furniture!

 

Also, who wants light grey?  My kitchen is sunny yellow, and I love it!  (Other rooms are various shades of blue, or they are warm cream.)

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This is funny. I also live in an old farmhouse on land. I have seen these trendy things and thought "oh no, I need to remodel so it looks more like a farmhouse on the inside" :lol:

Interesting that a urban dweller on 1/4 an acre can set the rules on these things.

 

 

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Flypaper as decor...OK then.

It’s better than the flies embellishing my supper! They’re so bad in the summer. When the cows are out on the back 40 it’s not so bad but for at least half the summer they’re near the house. Yuck!!!

 

 

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Interesting that a urban dweller on 1/4 an acre can set the rules on these things.

 

 

I don't see Pinterest as setting any rules on things. They label certain styles "farm house" or country design, but that's about it. If you want to "blame" someone, perhaps blame Ikea, since most of the things found in houses show up in Ikea at some point in time - or should it be that most of the things in Ikea show up in everyone's house eventually. ;)

 

Maybe all those Swedish names of items are not really Swedish at all, but the word "farm" in hundreds of different languages.  :laugh:

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It's gotten out of control. I am very eclectic so I like to take bits and pieces of various design aesthetics and merge them but I am getting burned out on the farmhouse vibe. I live in a 100 year old tiny farmhouse and do enjoy some of the touches I pulled from the style, like my pale gray kitchen with white cabinets and a farmhouse sink. But some of it is so overdone.

 

Like the 8,000 pieces of decor that actually say FARMHOUSE on the decor. Very annoying. I don't see much word art decor in other styles writing out TRADITIONAL or CONTEMPORARY. So why so much has to say FARMHOUSE I really don't understand. If I have to get a big sign that says ECLECTIC in my living room, then my decor is not doing a good job of conveying my vibe all on its own, you know?

 

No offense intended to anyone with farmhouse signs all over their house! Just a tiny pet peeve. And your house is probably way more more pinterest worthy than mine!

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I live in an area with many small farms. And "farmhouse decor" made me laugh because I have friends who had to "make do" in their kitchens like the OP. The needs of the family and the livestock come first. We have snow/ice coming, and I'm expecting a few will have to bring vulnerable livestock into their "farmhouse kitchens." Just what you do...

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I live in an area with many small farms. And "farmhouse decor" made me laugh because I have friends who had to "make do" in their kitchens like the OP. The needs of the family and the livestock come first. We have snow/ice coming, and I'm expecting a few will have to bring vulnerable livestock into their "farmhouse kitchens." Just what you do...

Oh yeah. There’s been lambs in my kitchen each wintercthe last few years

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Oh yeah. There’s been lambs in my kitchen each wintercthe last few years

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I'm seeing local folks on Facebook putting the chicks in the bathtub and setting up pens in the kitchen; 'tis the season.

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