The classic farmhouse gives of aromas of warmth, comfort, practicality, and sighs of fresh air. It’s an ideal décor design with beautiful overarching wood beams, delicate characteristics, and an ageless ambiance. But this modern yet traditional aesthetic can feel unreachable to achieve. Nonetheless, this home décor trend has been around for years and we’re privy to all it has to offer. Whether you are looking to redesign your living room into a natural haven or feel that something’s missing in your living room home décor, we’re here to help. Enjoy our guide to farm-fresh designs, toasty fireplace evenings, and homey textures with our best farmhouse living room ideas and décor.
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Exposed Beams, Shiplap Accents, and More
Textures and Materials? Yes, Please.
Create Rough Textures, Pops of Accents, and Unique Designs for your Farmhouse Living Room Design
We’ll take you through a step-by-step guide on how to incorporate everything the farmhouse living room style has to offer. We celebrate the characteristics and tones that this style brings to the table, and it brings a lot. Centered around home-cooked meals, family game nights, and sunny reading spots, farmhouse living room décor offers up a place to relax, unwind, and have fun after a long day of work. As the world transitions further into a WFH culture, we know just how important it is to have your home a place of refuge and stress relief. Take a look at how you can cultivate the ideal atmosphere for you and your family.
Neutrals? Really?
Yes, really! This simple color palette is composed of alabaster whites, creams, soft ambers, grays. Can’t you just feel the warmth? Neutral colors are a great start to priming your living room with a more natural ambiance. Windows will bounce bolder hues and tones all over your evening glass of wine while lighter and delicate colors will bring dimension and richer textures. To accent your neutral walls, try adding a light-colored rug or our Signature Design by Ashley farmhouse living room table. The distressed wood and easy color will allow for the focal point of your room to stay where it needs to be.
Hints of Color
Light, airy, and fresh colors are valuable, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t room for some funky accent choices. To keep in step with farmhouse living room décor, you could choose a muted color, which includes dusty versions of popular bright hues, like indigo, gold, cherry red, or a chestnut piece. Add a fun, funky merlot vase full of local flowers or pops of accent colors in your rug. These subtle touches will bring more dimension to your farmhouse living room while creating a homey, unassuming atmosphere. Take a look at this taupe farmhouse living room accent chair by Ashley Furniture. The subtle colors of red and delicate yellows masked by the muted brown are a beautiful way to punctuate your home design. You also have the choice of which pop of accent colors you love best.
Fresh Air + Open Spaces
Let’s take a drive down those winding back-country roads. Okay, not really, but you get the idea: All the windows down, air flowing in one window and out the next, that faint smell of musk and fresh air. It’s a beautiful picture and even better to experience. Give your living room the feel of an open-air concept plan with this farmhouse living room sectional sofa from Affordable Furniture. It gives enough room to enjoy your space without having to jig a dance around your couch. Place it facing a window and you can even watch the sunset fade as you relish in your evening.
Functional Furniture
A subtler ingredient for creating a rewarding living room farmhouse is to have beautiful furniture with functionality. You may find that a workbench can double as a coffee table. Or an ottoman as a storage unit. Our Farmhouse Reimagined Storage Trunk from Liberty Furniture is the perfect blend of functionality and beauty. You can show off your rustic style while hiding clutter or storing those cozy blankets.
Exposed Beams, Shiplap Accents, and More
The texture of beams, shiplap, and pallet furniture adds a whole other level of charisma to your farmhouse interior. There are many lively and creative ways to incorporate wood and shiplap into your home. You can repurpose wood for an authentic and warm atmosphere. Or go for the rejected wood planks at your local resale store and paint a few coats of walnut finishes over it. To contrast the darker wood colors, give your shiplap a cream or white base to add harmony. Check out this antique-style Ashley storage bench to add style and storage.
Distressed Woods and Antiques
While you’re out at your local resale store looking for some reclaimed wood furniture, keep an eye out for antique decor. If you happen to find a beautiful rug that may look a little outdated, that’s okay! The classic farmhouse living room design loves statement pieces that blend tradition and quiet nuances. To begin your journey with distressed antiques, take a look at our two-toned vintage-style Ashley TV stand. This piece will spark the inspiration you may need with aged-natural pines and dark antique hardware.
Textures and Materials? Yes Please.
Next to neutral colors, natural textures and fibers are your closest allies when designing your living room. When you think of a farm, what do you see lying around the barn? You’d probably see lots of hay, some sticks, sawdust. Now, you don’t have to go buy hay barrels and that be your comfy couch, but what you can do is incorporate these materials as accent textures. Add a hand-woven basket next to your sofa to hold blankets or remotes. Grab some art pieces that feature natural wood textures. Or go with this gorgeous farmhouse living room accent chair by Ashley Furniture that’s woven with a wood frame. Place it in a corner or near your fireplace to add another level of hospitality to your abode.
Add in Those Accented Metals
Do you have curtain rods? Handles to drawers? Or lamps in your living room? Accent, accent, accent— with all sorts of metals. The freedom of the farmhouse living room style includes taking darker metals, like brass or black, and contrasting them with softer metallics, like gold or silver. For example, replace your curtain rods with a dark and moody metal while replacing your side table drawer handles with deep brass. This brings a light and airy feel to the earth and grainy texture of a farm. This white oak round cocktail table by Ashley is a perfect centerpiece that brings dark and light metals into your living room.
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