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Farmhouse Style & Art

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Despite all my efforts to keep myself busy and my mind occupied…I can’t stop thinking about my future house.  I’m very indecisive about what I want and since we still have awhile before we make any moves, I know I have time to decide.  But one thing I keep coming back to is Farmhouse style.  There’s something I love about the serenity of a farmhouse…out in the country with light colors and rustic furniture.  My current decor has a lot of bright colors and modern elements, which I plan on incorporating a bit here and there, but it will all be very different in my new home.

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Photo by Ivan Konar, Chile

Color schemes are neutral and earthy: gray, white, off-white, beige, tan, brown. There is a lot of white painted wood as well as natural raw wood and stone.  I love this photograph and how it shows the rustic old farm tools that probably sit in the old stone barn.

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Photo by Angelo Dorigo, Italy

Accessories are vintage and antique, cut flowers or shrubbery in simple vases like jars. Often times farm animal motifs will be used, although I prefer these to be used sparingly and in classic forms, like artwork.  Isn’t this horse painting amazing?

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Painting by Monica Taylor

Speaking of artwork, it’s not something I have never really had in my home. I’ve printed family pictures and occasionally other prints, but nothing that actually went with my home. I was inspired recently by art I saw on a farmhouse style blog, and I went to learn about artwork at Saatchi (which is where these pictures are all from.)  I fell in love with all these pictures I’m sharing with you today and hope that I can somehow use them in my future farmhouse style home.

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Painting by Miks Goben

2 Comments

  1. I love your blog, its full of beautiful things and ideas! I dream of owning a farmhouse too. I just started my own business this year painting. My poor little house does not have a good studio space so I use the kitchen. I stay up all night so my three little ones don’t get into the paint. I’m working hard though so I can finally have the space I need and the beautiful home I dream of.

    1. Heidi @ Honeybear Lane says:

      Haha…we do what we have to right?

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