30 Farmhouse Living Rooms That Will Make You Feel Cozy

Farmhouse style is all about practicality and casual appeal. A recycled steel beam wearing its maker’s stamp brings an industrial touch to this rugged, cedar-plank cabin with all its exposed timber. Splashes of sage and turquoise pull in the colors outside the floor-to-ceiling windows.

15 Cozy Farmhouse Living Room Ideas We Can’t Get Enough Of

Refresh your home with ideas from these chic farmhouse living rooms—including shiplap, barn doors, and an eclectic mix of trinkets and nature-inspired accents.

Andrea Crowley is a content creator and former writer for national publications, including Martha Stewart and Better Homes and Gardens. She currently holds the position of Content Designer at Meta.

Make your home feel cozy and welcoming with inspiration from our favorite farmhouse living rooms. Whether you prefer farmhouse decor that leans more cottage, country, or even contemporary, the style offers something for everyone. Known for its use of neutral colors and natural materials (and yes, shiplap), modern farmhouse style draws on the past but with contemporary twists like tailored lines, mixed materials, and layered textures. Our roundup of 15 farmhouse living rooms will inspire you to put your personal stamp on this style to create a living room you’ll never want to leave.

Start with Shiplap

It’s no secret shiplap has become a huge design trend over the past decade, making its way from home shows to Pinterest boards. With its clean lines and wide planks, shiplap makes the perfect backdrop in this modern farmhouse. A plaster fireplace soars to the vaulted ceiling and stands out among neutral furnishings.

Modern Eclectic

Sliding barn doors are a sure sign of farmhouse style. These salvaged beauties were refinished and stained caramel for a warm contrast to the stone and concrete elements in this modern farmhouse living room. The caramel-color stitched-leather butterfly chairs continue the color scheme.

Farmhouse Furniture

Consider slipcovers when furnishing your farmhouse living room. The practical update makes it possible to decorate with creamy white fabrics without the fear of permanent stains. Here, white slipcovered chairs provide a canvas for alluring blue accents (like these Better Homes and Gardens Square Throw Pillows, $15, Walmart). A weathered brick fireplace is the perfectly imperfect centerpiece in this otherwise polished room.

Eclectic Mix

This farmhouse family room is a little bit country, a little bit rock ‘n’ roll. The mounted banjo and guitar, a 19th-century piano, and graphic poster are noteworthy against the paneled accent wall and neutral furnishings that ground the living room in farmhouse style. An animal hide rug on a vibrant pink oriental rug adds eclecticism.

Bright White Walls

Neutral walls and lots of natural lighting are hallmarks of farmhouse style. This crisp white living room allows wicker accents (like a Better Homes and Gardens Braided Basket, $50, Walmart) and fresh greenery to take center stage. Wood accents—the mantel, pendant light fixture, a mounted basket, and vintage crates—warm the color scheme.

Cozy Cabin Details

Distressed woods juxtapose matte metals in this farmhouse living room. Black metal on the sconces, window trim, and ceiling fan add a little drama. Coastal elements, like navy blue accents and a nautical-theme coffee table, allude to the home’s lakeside location.

Cottage Appeal

Found items bring charming country touches into this shabby-chic farmhouse. An old barn ladder showcases favorite throw blankets. Caster wheels found on Craigslist give a chicken crate a lift, making it the right height for a coffee table. IKEA sofas wearing white slipcovers provide a blank slate for piles of patterned throw pillows.

Updated Shiplap Walls

Cowhide chairs, shiplap walls, exposed beams—all are traditional markers of farmhouse style. However, this home modernized the look by installing the shiplap vertically then painting usually white shiplap dark gray. The contemporary accent wall provides sharp relief for a light beige tailored sofa and artwork.

Modern Farmhouse Style

No chicken motifs here! Contemporary elements, such as a sleek shiplap fireplace, midcentury modern seating, and a concrete coffee table, lend modern farmhouse style to this space. A few pops of turquoise, pink, and yellow warm the otherwise neutral furnishings.

Mix and Match Finishes

Whitewashed louvered doors sweetly frame this cozy cottage’s fireplace that anchors a display of mounted antlers and modern artwork. The distressed finish of the coffee table matches the doors but juxtaposes the cool, contemporary stone of the fireplace. Rusty antique milk canisters double as vases.

Nature-Inspired Accents

If you’re looking for rustic living room ideas, give this coffee table on wheels a spin. Styled to look like a one-time pigeon coop, the DIY furniture piece has a glass top and casters for function. Hay-inspired throw pillows, branch elements, and wicker baskets complete the country look.

Sitting Pretty

Creamy whites and earthy browns make an understated duo in this inviting farmhouse living room. Leather barrel chairs draped with sheepskin throws and plaid pillows play nicely with a white pouf ottoman. A neutral jute area rug finishes the look.

Natural Habitat

Farmhouse style is all about practicality and casual appeal. A recycled steel beam wearing its maker’s stamp brings an industrial touch to this rugged, cedar-plank cabin with all its exposed timber. Splashes of sage and turquoise pull in the colors outside the floor-to-ceiling windows.

Rethink Secondhand Furniture

Found items are what give the farmhouse style its unique character. The salvaged old wheelbarrow became a gorgeous statement coffee table for this neutral living room. An eggshell palette keeps the focus on the wood elements like the sliding barn doors.

Outdoor Oasis

This country-kitsch sunroom is filled with more than natural lighting. It includes tons of farmhouse living room decorating ideas, including a DIY rocker made from a wicker chair, a vintage tabletop fan, and an antique gas-can lamp base. Red in the rug, ottoman, and wood-burning oven nods to bygone barns.

30 Farmhouse Living Rooms That Will Make You Feel Cozy

Kristin Hohenadel has written on design for publications including the New York Times, Interior Design, Slate, Fast Company, and the international editions of Elle Decor.

Farmhouse living rooms are homey, warm, nostalgic, and timeless. Often featuring central fireplaces, decorative ceiling beams, shiplap walls, barn doors, vintage-style lighting, and neutral palettes, these homey spaces prioritize natural materials like wood, metal, and stone.

You can make farmhouse style work in a more modern, minimalist home or a traditional or period home. Today many people combine farmhouse with other trends to create hybrid styles such as coastal farmhouse, industrial farmhouse, boho style meets farmhouse, and more.

Whether you’re renovating an old farmhouse or outfitting a new build with nostalgic vintage features and decorative accents, check out these farmhouse living rooms for inspiration.

Add a Color Accent

While the farmhouse aesthetic tends to focus on neutrals, you can lift your decor with judicious color accents. Marie Flanigan Interiors added definition to this airy living room with traditional barn red detailing.

Show Off Collectibles

This 1920s LA hunting cabin from Leanne Ford Interiors has a farmhouse vibe with its whitewashed wood, rustic stone fireplace, lightly pitched roof, visible ceiling beams, and assortment of personal objects scattered around the room that feel collected over time rather than overly styled.

Source a Vintage Mantel

Add authenticity to a farmhouse living room by sourcing vintage and antique accent pieces that will give the space a sense of history. Becca Interiors highlighted a brick fireplace with a vintage natural wood mantel in this beaded shiplap-clad coastal farmhouse living room in Southampton Village, NY.

Paint Floorboards White

Paint the floorboards white for a Scandi-inspired farmhouse feel. In this cozy living room from Liz Marie Blog, a vintage-style Antiques sign on the rustic wood mantel complements the all-white room.

Mix and Match Styles

Create an authentic farmhouse feel by mixing and matching furniture styles rather than going for a uniform look. Interior designer Kara Mann chose an eclectic mix of furniture and decor in this Connecticut farmhouse to add interest and texture while keeping the focus on the room’s original character, with its simple lines, small farmhouse windows, and rustic dark wood ceiling beams.

Add Overstuffed Seating

This farmhouse living room from AHG Interiors is dominated by a rustic stone fireplace and flanked by an overstuffed chaise that offers a cozy place to curl up by the fire.

Highlight Natural Stone

In a transitional living room, highlight natural materials to channel a farmhouse feel. A rustic stone wall is the focal point of this space from Marie Flanigan Interiors.

Add Moody Paint

Use moody paint to create a cozy feel. Mindy Gayer Design Co. uses matte black paint on the fireplace and wall of open storage that add a grounding note in a room with soaring ceilings and pale wood exposed beams. The room is accessorized with accents like a pair of landscape paintings on the mantel, and an upright piano that adds a homey touch.

Hang a Classic Chandelier

This light-flooded, white-walled living room Leanne Ford Interiors has an elegant farmhouse feel thanks to shelves of collected objects, a cozy overstuffed sofa, and an antique crystal chandelier that hangs proudly in the center of the room.

Add Some Pattern

Add a modern feel to a historic farmhouse living room with patterned textiles. This Westchester, NY farmhouse from interior designer Kara Mann has wrap-around windows in the living room flanked by patterned curtains that can be drawn at night for a cozier feel.

Use Reclaimed Materials

While remodeling this 1700’s Maine farmhouse, Tyler Karu Design + Interiors preserved the original structure while “undoing the work of many unfortunate remodels over the years,” incorporating reclaimed wood beams from a local barn and original pine doors while adding in furnishings and fixtures to create a timeless feel.

Whitewash the Brick

In this light and airy living room from Jessica Nelson Interior Design, whitewashed fireplace brick is paired with chunky pale wood open shelving and a matching mantel to create an updated farmhouse feel.

Warm With Natural Accents

Leanne Ford Interiors whitewashed the walls, windows, ceiling, and fireplace in this bright farmhouse living room to give it a fresh modern feel. A monumental sectional combining pale leather and white upholstery adds warmth. The minimalist room is outfitted with a large comfy sofa that is covered with a mixture of leather and white slip covers, while natural elements like a rustic wooden coffee and a vintage vase of dried flowers adds warmth.

Soften With Sepia Tones

This Connecticut family room from Becca Interiors has a farmhouse feel with its central stone and wood fireplace and creamy white walls mixed with soft sepia tones.

Use Unfinished Wood

Adding unfinished wood accents to a clean white living room will add rustic farmhouse appeal. This farmhouse living room from Leanne Ford Interiors features a chunky wood mantel with a rough and unfinished appearance to complement a whitewashed stone fireplace facade.

Embrace History

This living room from AHG Interiors is located in a 1864 farmhouse on a working horse farm in Rhinebeck, NY. The living room was updated with pale walls and floors and comfortable furnishings that are mixed with antique lighting, landscape paintings, and a grand piano in the corner of the room that echo the property’s history.

Keep It Light

Desiree Burns Interiors decorated this light and airy living room with simple modern furniture and decor in neutral tones to keep the focus on the architectural features of the home with its classic bones and original fireplace.

Accessorize with Color

This living room from Victoria Bell Design contrasts rustic dark ceiling beams and pale neutral walls and furnishings with contrasting pops of bright color on the throw pillows and wall art that give it a contemporary feel.

Use Brick Floor Tiles

Brick floor tiles give this carriage house living room from Becca Interiors a rustic feel that is contrasted with soft textiles and patterned wallpaper on the adjacent entryway walls. A mix of traditional modern and antique furniture and decor creates a timeless feel.

Hang a Pair of Pendants

This farmhouse living room from Kate Marker Interiors features a pair of pendant light fixtures that help structure the modern room while recalling the taper candelabras of old.

Mix Wood and Stone

This farmhouse-style living room from Ashley Montgomery Design mixes honey wood tones on the ceiling beams, mantel, flooring, and furniture with pale walls and a gray stone fireplace. The mixture of warm and cool tones makes the room feel balanced.

Make It Loft Style

This open-plan kitchen and living room from Brexton Cole Interiors is a contemporary spin on the modern farmhouse aesthetic, with a navy fireplace, sculptural furnishings, and industrial farmhouse lighting.

Add Barn Doors

A pair of sliding barn doors complements the dark wood ceilings and stone fireplace of this modern farmhouse-style living room from Living with Lolo.

Lean Into a Cottage Look

Blogger Ursula Carmona of Home Made By Carmona added farmhouse-inspired touches to a modern living room like tufted armchairs in a neutral fabric, wooden shelving, and printed floral curtains that lend it some cottage charm.

Add Dark Wood Accents

Jenn Pablo Studio created a modern farmhouse feel in a Spanish Modern Revival home in Palm Springs by adding a decorative tile accent to the fireplace and white painted shiplap on the wall above that contrasts with the dark wood mantel.

Make It Modern

This new build living room from KG Designs has an open plan living, dining, and kitchen, with touches like rustic wood ceiling beams, shiplap walls, black metal accents, and a built-in niche for the flat screen TV that conjures up a contemporary notion of farmhouse style.

Try an Exposed Wood Ceiling

Jenn Pablo Studio brought some farmhouse inspired vibes to a modern Spanish Revival home in Palm Springs by highlighting the exposed wood ceilings with an oversized vintage-style light fixture and comfortable furnishings.

Focus on Details

Rustic details will add charm to a modern living room. Blogger Ursula Carmona of Home Made By Carmona hung a pair of simple round mirrors from rope handles on the white shiplap wall for an effortless farmhouse-inspired feel.

Display Books and China

This Connecticut farmhouse living room from interior designer Kara Mann has a wall of shelving built around the window and styled with books and objects like patterned china plates. A deep blue velvet couch, a pair of matching armchairs, a vintage trunk coffee table, and layered rugs create a sitting area that feels like it’s been there forever.

Make It Transitional

This transitional living room from Desiree Burns Interiors has touches of modern farmhouse style, from the vaulted ceilings to the black wire pendant light to the natural accents scattered throughout the room.

Can farmhouse style be combined with other design styles?

Absolutely. Mix farmhouse style with industrial, coastal, modern or boho style. Decorating and mixing design styles adds a personal touch and uniqueness to your home.

Neutral earthy colors are the backdrop colors for farmhouse style, such as tan, grey, greige, cream, off-white, and white. For accent colors, use light blues and greens, or black for a more defined look.

What wall hangings and art should you use for farmhouse style?

Think farmhouse wall decor like shiplap, old rustic frames, shelves filled with vintage knickknacks, wall clocks, signs with sayings, and old tools or architectural salvage pieces.