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Are you ready for a warm and cozy home surrounded with family and friends to entertain? Midwestern Farmhouse is the perfect space for you and your loved ones to feel welcomed and at home the minute you walk into the door. With it’s inviting space and functionality, this style is perfect for families and people who enjoy entertaining and holding memories close. If that is what you are looking for, adding that Midwestern Farmhouse flair sounds like the perfect piece to the puzzle.
a. What Is Midwestern Farmhouse?
b. How to Midwestern Farmhouse Your Home
c. Get A Midwestern Farmhouse Rug For Your Room
You’re settled into your home with family and friends and having a laugh on your couch surrounded by family heirlooms and antique furniture picked especially out of love. Midwestern Farmhouse is a farmhouse experience without having to live on the farm itself. You usually see this type of style in the Eastern part of the US, mainly in the southern parts, but now has become popular all over social media and Pinterest. It is a style that comes from memories surrounding your home.
When anyone thinks of Midwestern Farmhouse, it’s typically connected with wrap around porches, big spacious backyards, and a home filled with family pictures. Here is where everyone gathers and immediately feels like home the first step you take. Anyone who would style their home this way wants to have functionality and want to steer towards comfort more than anything else. It’s a life of ease and organization.
It’s time to get your mind thinking about Midweastern Farmhouse style. Let’s set up your mind for a moment as we envision it for you …
Let’s walk into your home where you see pure white walls and dark brown antique furniture. Tons of family pictures surrounding the walls and shelves and comforting material on the couches and chairs that make it inviting to come in. You would think it was something right from a Hallmark movie. Sounds pleasing, doesn’t it?
Having functionality really helps with Midwestern Farmhouse as well comfort. Keeping everything easy and simple makes the home pop but also feel relaxing for all to enjoy. Let's get into how to make your home welcoming and relaxing.
When it comes to Midwestern Farmhouse, you have to think of the comforting homes you would see in any farmhouse. Your walls should be pure white. Keeping that nice glossy white paint will open the room more and allow all the dark brown tones from the furniture and floors to come together nicely. Your colors should be on your rug and on anything with fabric included.
Try to have nice warm colors such as reds and yellows to really center the room. Having a nice bright rug with warm tones and colors from flowers will bring everything together. With the furniture having that nice antique brown color, those little added pops of color will sure make the ambiance make you have a warm and fuzzy feeling.
You may add subtle hints of blues and grays to bring in the cool tones and neutralize your space, but don’t go too crazy with it! You don’t want to overshadow the brown antique furniture and make it a more modern feel. You want that nice rustic feel in your home.
When you walk into a farmhouse style home, it’s usually filled with white sleek walls and board and batten. Adding a little texture to your home will add that antique touch that your home is craving. Taking trim that runs vertically on the bottom half of the wall will give it the ridged aesthetic. Around that, keeping everything sleek and smooth will bring the Midwestern Farmhouse style to a full circle.
Having different materials for furniture can get a little tricky. Adding in some material from sofas such as cloth or even colored leather will help bring out the soft wood coming from the antique furniture. Keep everything feeling comfortable though as this particular style is all for relaxation!
Patterns can get difficult throughout the home. With this particular style, adding stripes, distressed old world designs on rug detailing, and having lightly patterned pillows with different shapes such as medallion and floral designs help bring the room together. Keeping patterns strictly to anything with fabric allows your eyes to focus on that particular spot of the room.
With Midwestern Farmhouse, we can always accentuate the space you currently have and make it work with the design you’re looking for. Let's talk about what the room expectations are vs what can be done.
Keeping the floors simple allows the designed space to brighten up more. Having dark hardwood floors will blend in the antique furniture and will allow the patterns that need to be the accent pieces will shine brightly. Laminate also will help with the design if you want to keep it easy. Having laminate dark “hardwood” floors will bring this style together.
Floors that are too patterned could be an issue with this type of style. Having the fabrics incorporated, keeping the floors basic will help attract the eye to where it needs to be and not make the room feel so busy. With the white walls, having a darker color or even a tan could really help keep the style together and uniformed to the styles needs.
This part is easy. White. White. White. Having sleek white paint with white trim with vertical lines will make the room feel more of the farmhouse style you typically see in movies or TV shows. You want to take into account that you want to have the dark floors and furniture, so the white walls will allow the space to open up more while allowing the furniture and floors to not feel so washed up. Don’t go crazy trying to have it look colorful, the rugs and patterns in the room will be responsible.
Adding paintings/photography of fields and farms will allow the walls to have a story. That painting will allow the color of the room to come together and draw attention to your eyes. You don’t need to have too much on the walls though, but having a beautiful painting that you love to look at and admire will make the Farmhouse look come together.
Take the same tips we mentioned about the walls and apply it to the ceilings. Having white sleek ceilings will continue to allow the space to feel more open while allowing the furniture and rugs to do their job. Don’t go nuts with it as it will just make the room clash. The purpose is to continue to keep the home feeling roomy and comforting. You’ll be adding lighting and a fan light, so there is no need to go crazy with flashy ceilings.
When it comes to windows, you want to keep white into consideration as well to continue to keep the openness of the room apparent. Having more windows in the home will let the sunlight in and have the white rooms shine brightly, but we know you can’t install windows easily.
Curtains are not necessary for this particular style. If you decide to have curtains, it would be best to try to keep it simple and just have long white curtains or even adding a warm color to add that pop of color. Don’t go bright on the curtains or else it will feel like the room is closing in more rather than having the aesthetic of having a bright and open farmhouse. Less is more in this scenario.
Wanting blinds for your home? Basic and simple vertical blinds will help keep the simplicity of the room while having the ability to open and close whenever you would like to keep the sunshine in or not. It will allow the room to continue to look bright with
This is where the fun happens. Furniture in a Midwestern Farmhouse style is all about the brown and dark tones. What is suggested is to go to an antique store, walk around for a while, and pick out whatever pieces come to you. Usually in those types of stores, you see a lot of dark wood furniture with patterned fabric incorporated. You should be able to look at a particular piece of furniture and envision that piece into your home and having a sense of joy or comfort when you think about it being placed in the space. Don’t go towards colored furniture as the rug and fabrics will be the accent pieces to the home.
When it comes to how furniture should be, always think about functionality. Drawers and dressers with many different drawers as well as even a TV stand with drawers and sliding doors. Storage is key in this case and having the accessibility to be able to place items in drawers will continue to make the home look clean and roomy.
Decor is the place that starts adding the pops of color needed. Adding greenery and little pops of color from flowers and vases will allow not only the plant to stand out, but allow the furniture to come to life. Having lighter color for flowers will let everyone's eyes not only look at the plant, but the colors that it helps accent within the room. Don’t start buying bright colors for plants as it will clash with everything else in the room.
Adding little nick nacks such as adding little vases and picture frames will bring the warm and fuzzy feeling back into the space. This particular style is all about coming together and feeling family friendly, so adding pictures of family as well as having little items passed down from family to help decorate will really allow guests to walk around and know there's a story behind everything. If you can’t, we suggest when you are on a vacation to bring back something that would fit into your home that you can tell a story about later to all your friends, neighbors and family.
Now, let's discuss paintings/photography. Adding beautiful views of fields and farms into the home will allow the walls to add that little pop. The touches of having family pictures will complete the feel of how this style was portrayed. Midwestern Farmhouse is all about how one feels when you watch a Hallmark movie. You see the life of family, friends, and loved ones all coming together. Having someone over and looking at old pictures will remind everyone what life is about.
Lastly, let's discuss rugs. Having the perfect rug in your home will be the true accent piece to this style. Having a distressed rug with light patterns, or even a rug with a variety of shapes and warm tones will be the eye catcher of the room. Having it lay in front of the couch and gathering around will be the piece to resistance in your beautiful home.
Keeping lighting in mind while having the antique flair in your home, sconce lights are perfect for this style. Whether you want to have a more modern look and having black/grey to keep it antique and traditional with browns will be perfect for any home. Placing them right on the walls will shine the room at night when you need that little added brightness.
Having a fan light or even a basic soffit light on the ceiling will add the light needed at night. The natural light usually is what will have the most impact on the home, but these will be a great touch to complete the ambiance. Having simple brown or black lighting will allow it to fill the room without it being the one thing everyone looks at when walking in.
Midwestern Farmhouse rug style is perfect for this particular style and gives the room the attention and flair it needs to complete the room. Here at The Rug Truck, we offer a wide variety of selection while keeping in mind what you are looking for to complete your picture perfect home. With your living space having comfort and functionality, we have selected a wide variety of rugs that will have you loving your space even more and feeling more comforting. Check out the Midwestern Farmhouse style today!