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Farmhouse Basics: A collection of simple ideas to add Farmhouse style to your home. Even if you live in a stucco home, a small apartment in a large city, or a cabin like we do.

My heart was pounding in my chest and in my ears. The ground seemed to come up to my feet instead of my feet hitting the ground. The hot air of Reno was blowing on the back of my neck. I had surprised Reno, grandpa’s bull, as I came around the corner of the barn. It wasn’t until I reached a shaky hand to open the screen door, that I looked back…to see Reno…still standing at the barn.

Of course, all my cousins were watching from the back porch.  One of many farm stories.

Simple Farmhouse Style

Note: at the bottom of the post is a link to create your own windmill art.  I made the one in the image above in 1998 on a plastered covered piece of wood.

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This home doesn’t look like much.  A small four-room house.  Inside it was filled with laughs, love, and a huge family.  The decor was simple but very much in the farmhouse style of today!

I collected 9 ideas to add farmhouse style to your home…even if your home is not a farmhouse.

Farm Storage

Put something in a crate.  Even a flat screen TV!  That back porch that I ran to in my youth, was used for storage.  Crates held extra dishes, linens, tools, and anything else that fit in a crate.

Here’s a great collection of crates – Amazon link.

Personally, I’m so into galvanized items that I working on an inexpensive galvanize paint technique.  Give plants an instant farm look by placing it in a bucket.  Hold kitchen utensils in a galvanized tin.

I love this group of galvanized decor items. – Amazon link

My grandmother kept small treasures in wooden boxes.  Some boxes were displayed on her dressing table, other under the bed or on the top shelf of the closet.  The closet with a curtain for a door.

Fun wood boxes with lids. – Amazon link

House Details

Check thrift stores and yard sales for wood furniture.  My most popular post of all time is the aging wood instantly to look like barn wood. – internal link

While you’re at those thrift stores and yard sales, keep an eye open for shutter, windows, screen doors and other basic home elements.  Chipped paint is perfect!  Even if you don’t have a place to hang a screen door, use it to hold magnets, turn it into a chalkboard, or just hang on the wall. 🙂

Twine!  Here are a few ideas to use twine around the home.

1. Wrap around a bottle.
2. Tie a plate on top of a bowl to keep food warm or bugs away when dining outside. top of a bowl to keep food warm or bugs away when dining outside. – Internal link
3. String through chain – Internal link
4. Tie around a decorative pillow or use to pull curtains back.
5. Use twine to hang a picture letting the twine show.

Ideas for different types and colors of twine. – Amazon link

Bring outside farm elements inside.  Mom gave me this windmill and it worked hard outside for years.  Then the wind blew it over and bent the top.  Now it stands proudly inside.  It’s retired. 😀

Collection of windmills all sizes and price points. – Amazon link

Simple Basics

Wildflowers in a vase.  Raise your hand if you brought in wildflowers to mom or grandma.  Here in the mountains of Arizona, wildflowers are few.  Grocery store flowers will due. 🙂

A shelf with a stack of white dishes.  Love! <3

A group of different style of farm white dishes. – Amazon link

Display vintage household items.  Working or not.  Actually, this fan works.  Just works too fast.  It would spin itself off the stool!  But I adore the color.

We live in a cabin and I’ve convinced myself that shiplap would be perfect on a few walls of our cabin.  And a screen door on the back porch.  No bull!  Stay tuned!

This windmill is also a free printable in the Subscriber library.