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| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Oct 24 2005 : 1:30:19 PM
and what would YOU call 'farm style'? it would be different for a country home, estate, (plantation .. ha! how many of us own those!), country cottage, log cabins, etc.? and how important is 'decorating' your home to you? do you change for the seasons and holidays? how often do you 'replace' furniture . .and do you move it around very often? |
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| garliclady |
Posted - Feb 01 2006 : 09:28:31 AM
We live on a farm but our house is a brick ranch style built in the early 1970's. The first year we got married we "got the 70's style out of most of the house" by painting and changing the floor. But it is far from what most would think of as a farm house. After the first year we got busy with the farm and now the house gets negleted. I am right in the middle of spring cleaning because in the spring we are too busy outside. I am trying to declutter and down size the amount of stuff we have . I want to simplyfy our lives but decorating is not on the top of my priorty list.
It is funny , when I was living the single life in the big city I lived in a small 100 year cabin. I decorated it for every season and loved to enterain in it. It was like a big play house with lots of old stuff.
Now that I live the counrty life I have a city house and no time or resources to think about decorating it. It is ok though, I like farming and it does come with some sacrifices.
The garlic lady
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| Aunt Jenny |
Posted - Jan 31 2006 : 07:05:21 AM
I love your place..thanks for posting the pictures..how fun!! I especially adore that rocking chair!! It is exactly the style I am looking for..and not easy to find!
Jenny in Utah
It's astonishing how short a time it takes for very wonderful things to happen...Frances Burnette
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| junebug |
Posted - Jan 31 2006 : 04:39:26 AM
Cute house, you've done alot of work, looks great!! Thanks for sharing it with us.
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| MullersLaneFarm |
Posted - Jan 30 2006 : 12:55:53 PM
We built on to our old (125+ year) farm house. Two adults and 3 teens in 800 sq ft (only 2 closets in the whole house) was a bit cramped! The old kitchen we tore down was built on about 1903.
It is not so much decorated in 'farm style' as it is 19th century with open pantries, etc. The majority of items on the pantry shelves are used daily or weekly.
http://www.mullerslanefarm.com/kitchen
My husband built a good amount of our furniture
http://www.mullerslanefarm.com/furniture
We plan on adding a primitive 'summer kitchen'. It will be attached to the main kitchen instead of being a separate building like they used to be. In the new summer kitchen, there will be NO electricity, NO modern heat, NO modern water. It will be well stocked with all the modern conveniences of the mid-1800's with oil lamps, a wood cook stove and a pitcher pump at the sink.
It will house my spinning wheels and looms, as well as being a store front for the farm. It may take years before it is built, but that's the plan!
Ol 'MacDonald has nothing on us!
http://www.mullerslanefarm.com |
| junebug |
Posted - Jan 19 2006 : 11:44:27 AM
Catherine, you'll have to share some pics of your kitchen with us, I"ve never seen the tabasco stuff, is it hard to find? Sounds cute!
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| Aunt Jenny |
Posted - Jan 19 2006 : 06:35:49 AM
Tabasco stuff..what a cute idea for the kitchen. My whole house (well, the downstairs part) has high ceilings and I love that! It is a real old house and that is one of my favorite things about it. My living room tends to be sort of "cabiny" and I had a gal who came over to visit last week tell me it was "charming". I am not sure if she meant that in a good way, but I choose to think she did..hhaha. That is one room that I put all my favorite things in..my favorite room besides the kitchen of course. Actually I guess the woman really does do most of the deciding about style and all. I think if I let my husband decide we would have big screen tv's and lawn chairs with tv trays in each room. I don't think so!! Catherine..I think when YOU are comfortable in your surroundings it IS cozy and people feel it.
Jenny in Utah
It's astonishing how short a time it takes for very wonderful things to happen...Frances Burnette
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| cajungal |
Posted - Jan 19 2006 : 06:30:10 AM
This has been a fun thread....great ideas and pics.
Junebug, your kitchen is awesome. I mentioned on another thread that I think all us farmgals seem to like to see our things....we're all visual. I did away with my uppercabinets, too. All open shelves....lots of jars and everything just a reach away.
Theresa, my mom made a similar dress in her home ec class in high school. It was all handstitched and a wonderful soft cotton. She dressed my sister and me in the dress when we were born. My daughters have worn it and now it hangs in the formal dining room with other family items.
Horseyrider made a good point about the style of home dictating the style of decorating. Although style is all individual. I know that if I had to live in the city I would still decorate in a down home style.
I'm quite eclectic like a lot of you. I grew up in south Louisiana and have quite a bit of Cajun French decor.....my kitchen is all Tabasco stuff....lots of quilts and afghans in the living room.....Texas decor....nature on the inside....and my girls' bedrooms are funky, cool colors and fuzzy pillows, etc... Our home is a brick farmstyle built in 1970. We have front and back porches and dormer windows up top. The kitchen has a huge floor to ceiling bay window that overlooks a butterfly and humingbird garden. There are also other feeders and a bird bath. We are big birders and see quite many species migrating back and forth during the seasons....right there while eating breakfast.
It took me years to figure out my style...contemporary, oriental, western, southwest,... I tried them all. I finally stopped trying so hard and surrounded myself with things that make me feel warm and fuzzy. Consequently, when guests visit, they comment on how warm and welcoming our home is. That Blesses me. I used to make excuses for what I thought looked bad or messy. I don't anymore....I have nothing to be sorry for, except to keep friends that are downers!
Blessings
Catherine
One of the best compliments from one of my daughters: "Moma, you smell good...like dirt." |
| junebug |
Posted - Jan 17 2006 : 04:52:29 AM
What treasures!! Thanks for sharing them, I've never seen such old hangers, neat idea!
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| farmgrlchick |
Posted - Jan 16 2006 : 2:25:45 PM
Wish my place was a real farm. But I thought I would add some pictures to this post of some treasures I have from 'Aunt' Thelma. First a little history. BK (before kids) I was a homehealth nursing assistant. Driving all around,sometimes 100 miles a day. It really was what I loved doing. Then the kiddos arrived.
My sister in the meantime marries a childhood friend, who's mother was my Mom's best friend.
Mom's best friend Donna, has a mother named Thelma. I have had the most wonderful opportunity to have 'Aunt'Thelma come stay weekends with us. FIrst time Jesse (my second) was in my womb. It helped relieve Donna , an only child.
I have found that caring for people is what I am made for. I love it, not as a job more as a gift , to reach out to those in need.
'aunt' Thelma and I have bonded. She is a classy lady 87 years young! A true woman of grace and charm.
Donna, felt that I deserved some 'treasures' from Thelma. So I was gifted. I love and treasure everone. Two things that I am sharing with you today .
1) It's a homemade, hand embroidered children's hanger. Embroidered with a "t" for Thelma. This little goody was made by one of Thelmas Aunts when she was born.
2) This little beauty, a dress, handmade for Thelma. It was worn by her and her younger siblings.
They adorn my computer amoir. They both make me stop and take a deep breath. I hope you enjoy.
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| junebug |
Posted - Jan 15 2006 : 12:18:48 PM
Actually, that is a wooden butcher block with storage one side, I hide all pots and pans in there till I can find a pot rack. It was a steal too! Thanks girls!
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| jenny louise |
Posted - Jan 15 2006 : 06:03:49 AM
Oh, I love the pics. Sue, your wooden work table is wonderful. That is what i need, something functional, yet small enough to fit!
Jenny, I can't wait to see your new countertop! Sounds marvelous.
Thanks guys for the pictures!
Jenny in MI,(I decided to throw that on too, jenny, so everyone can tell the difference )
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| farmgrlchick |
Posted - Jan 14 2006 : 08:09:07 AM
So Merry and Bright!
Theresa |
| junebug |
Posted - Jan 14 2006 : 07:39:14 AM
Here is my dining room all decked out for Christmas, it's joined to the kitchen. Can you tell I just learned how to post pics!
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| junebug |
Posted - Jan 14 2006 : 07:36:27 AM
Jenny, I love your high ceiling, you can so much with it, and a new counter top is on my wish too, where did you find the 40's speckled green? Your kitchen looks big, very farmgirlish, love it! Thanks for sharing, I love to see pics of people's houses, esp. farmgirls, so many neat ideas to steal!
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| therusticcottage |
Posted - Jan 13 2006 : 11:27:01 PM
Cute cute kitchens!! Junebug -- love the idea of removing the cabinet doors. I'll keep that in mind if I ever get to have a house again.
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| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Jan 13 2006 : 9:21:39 PM
oh .. i'm loving all your photos!!! keep 'em comin'! xo
True Friends, Frannie |
| farmgrlchick |
Posted - Jan 13 2006 : 5:19:19 PM
So cute Farmgirls!!!!
Thanks for sharing!!!!!! |
| Aunt Jenny |
Posted - Jan 13 2006 : 1:00:34 PM
Cute! I love your kitchen Sue
Here is a picture of one side of mine. I am putting in a new kitchen counter some time this winter for sure...a dark green specked formica one..real '40's looking..with the metal edge trim..the counter is the one thing I really hate about my kitchen. I stenciled the apple border when we first moved into this house. The whole kitchn had scary big old flowered walpaper...I MEAN REAAALY SCARY!!!
Jenny in Utah
It's astonishing how short a time it takes for very wonderful things to happen...Frances Burnette
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| junebug |
Posted - Jan 13 2006 : 12:51:48 PM
What do you do with a plain old tile ceiling, you paint it a checker board to match the kithen. I just love this talk about decorating our farmhouses! Let's see your pics!
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| junebug |
Posted - Jan 13 2006 : 12:48:31 PM
This is my cozy little kitchen in our 70 plus farmhouse, last year I took off the cabinet doors, they were old and ugly and left the open shelves to create a farmstyle look, painted them a ivory and green trim. It's small but I love it.
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| jenny louise |
Posted - Jan 13 2006 : 03:02:36 AM
I agree with frannie, wanna see some pictures!I will try to take one or two and post them soon.
We always warn people that are coming to visit that our home is rustic. Since we were off grid for a few years, everything had to serve a purpose and we had no appliances. We still have the clothes drying rack in the kitchen, and still use it. A boot and gloves and hats rack is next to the front door. I don't have fancy anything, too much of the barn yard gets dragged through here. In the spring, I always have one or two lammbs prancing around and have had a couple of llama babies living in here for awhile. So, no fancy goods. Ideally, I would like a place that i could hose down!!!
I like visualizing what you all have done, even though I don't 'do up' my house, i really enjoy seeing what folks do. I do have a box of christmas decorations, but put them out maybe every three or four years...just a plain jane, Jenny |
| Photobugs |
Posted - Jan 12 2006 : 8:56:28 PM
It has been awhile since this post was started, but I was away doing crafting and Christmas, so I am just getting back to reading and posting.
I wanted to address Maggiegerlach (Michelle) on tips on decorating in 1928 farm style. I would watch 'The Walton's' television show. I think this gives a pretty good idea of what a farm house kitchen might have looked like. Even though they are not on a farm, they do all the things in that kitchen that were common in any kitchen of the era. You'll note the Hoosier, old ice cream freezer, work table in the middle of the kitchen floor, and then once in a while you get a view of the pie safe on the back closed-in porch. You can also find grandma ironing on an old wood ironing board, with her electrical iron cord dangleing from the ceiling, as it is plugged into a light socket, I believe. Since this show represents the 1930s through the 1940s it may be a little off in the timeline, but all in all they do the best job I have seen in recreating this era. There is also a wood drying rack in the corner of the kitchen. You can sometimes find the cast irons at yard sales and they would have also been used during this time period. I got all three of mine at yard sales years ago. They did not have the handles, so I have been finding those on ebay and they look so much better with the handles on them.
Then there is the look of the Baldwin sisters home from the same show. They have money that Walton's did not have so it is a bit fancier, but quite lovely. I really love the clothes those two old ladies wear!
The nice thing is that in my area I get this show three times a day, so I could tell you everything about that house! Anyway, just my two cents worth.
"I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream!" |
| Lauram |
Posted - Nov 07 2005 : 11:47:20 AM
My husband and I are building a farmhouse on our five acres of farmland. We should break ground next month. Historic Housefitters sells reproduction door straps, lock sets, lighing, fireplace tools, and lots of other things. They have a website and I think it's www.historichousefitters.com. Also, Country Tinware has some nice things too.
Another way we are making our house look older is by buying solid wood, five panel doors and fitting them with doorstraps and cast iron knobs, etc . . . We are putting beams on the ceiling of our informal dining room where I will hang herbs, baskets and flowers. Our fireplace is going to be stone, and we are extending a stone to make room for a firewood cubby. I think we are going to also look for an old, wood mantal, and my husband is going to make us a rustic plank table. We have tons of old quilts that his grandmothers made, so I will hang those on the walls.
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| Debs |
Posted - Nov 01 2005 : 12:47:39 PM
I live in a flat (sorry, that's "apartment" to most of you) and the living room has chalet-style dark wood features (I have 3 pictures of farm/country houses on the walls!) and the kitchen is modern but some of the tiles on the wall above the benchtop depict a French village square! I did none of this decorating, and probably bought the place because of the big kitchen and the many natural-style wooden features! My goal however is to eventually have a rustic style interior, with lots of wood features, shabby-chic furnishings, in a cottage-like house on a small farm! |
| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Nov 01 2005 : 09:31:21 AM
antiques .. family or new found are a great way to make a home more homey, .. i love 'log cabin' looking things .. have step-back cupboards, hoosiers, baker's table, farm tables and chairs .. and a most wonderful 'chicken laying box (12 cubbies) to keep some of my cookbooks in. |
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