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Kim Leggett - City Farmhouse Style: Designs for a Modern Country Life

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Come along on the hunt to coveted country sources and the best secret antiquing spots, and learn how to create country farmhouse style in your city dwelling. Author Kim Leggett is the creator of City Farmhouse, an interior design business, pop-up antiquing fairs, and vintage store. She is also a legendary picker and favorite designer to celebrity clients (and country-style mavens) including Meg Ryan, Ralph Lauren, Sheryl Crow, and Phillip Sweet and Kimberly Schlapman of Little Big Town. In City Farmhouse Style, Leggett offers great style advice, breaking down the design vocabulary that makes for fresh country style (no matter the setting).
The popularity of farmhouse style has designers, homeowners, and fans in search of inspiration to create this look in all its rural glory. City Farmhouse Style is the first design book of its kind to focus entirely on transforming urban interiors with unfussy, welcoming, country-style decor.

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CONTENTS FOREWORD BY RACHEL HARDAGE BARRETT CHAPTER 1 - photo 1

CONTENTS

FOREWORD BY
RACHEL HARDAGE BARRETT

CHAPTER 1
FARMHOUSE INSPIRATION

CHAPTER 2
THE UPTOWN CITY FARMHOUSE

CHAPTER 3
THE SUBURBAN CITY FARMHOUSE

CHAPTER 4
THE CREATIVE CITY FARMHOUSE

CHAPTER 5
PICKIN PLACES

Theres a simplicity to farmhouse staples that helps them play well with other - photo 2

Theres a simplicity to farmhouse staples that helps them play well with other - photo 3

Theres a simplicity to farmhouse staples that helps them play well with other design elements and aesthetics, whether your tastes veer toward the modern, traditional, or somewhere in between.

FOREWORD

Chalk it up to the ubiquitous farm-to-table trend, but it seems that anything branded with the word farmhouse is suddenly having a momentfrom simple white farmhouse kitchens to amber-hued farmhouse ales. Farmers, of course, were doing farm-to-table far before it became the hyphenate du jour on highfalutin city menus, and those same farming folk knew the merits of, say, a wide-bowl apron sink or easy-access open shelving well before those items became staples of designer portfolios and home dcor catalogs.

The real beauty of farmhouse styleunlike other more fleeting design trendsis that its rooted in roll-up-your-sleeves practicality. Farmhouses have been around for hundreds of years, after all, and they were designed to work hardto accommodate multigenerational families, feed a crowd, and, yes, handle a little dirt.

As the editor in chief of Country Living, a brand with design-loving readers all over the country, Ive seen firsthand how the demand for all things farmhouse has grown exponentially over the past few yearsand well beyond the county lines of honest-to-goodness farm towns. Farmhouse style seems to resonate everywhere, from the neon lights of Times Square to one-stoplight town squares, and for good reason: A farmhouse table or an apron sink work just as well in an urban loft or suburban Tudor as they do in a country farmhouse.

I also suspect farmhouse style has such widespread appeal because its inherently inviting. Its warm, welcoming, and, thanks to its adaptability, all-inclusive. At Country Living, we run across hundreds of objectively beautiful spaces every month, but our most important criteria when vetting homes is this: Does it make you want to fidget, or does it make you want to linger? If its the former, it falls into the no pile. A farmhouse-inspired home, if done right, certainly doesnt make you want to fidget. Nothing about farmhouse style is too precious, too sleek, too hard-lined, or too cold.

Its no surprise, then, that Kim Leggett, the brilliant design mind behind the lifestyle brand, blog, and boutique City Farmhouse (and author of this very book), has helped plant and grow the seeds of the farmhouse-style movement. Yes, she has an incredible eye for good design, but perhaps more important, she embodies the warm, open, friendly aesthetic of the farmhouse look. Our paths first crossed at a Country Livingfair event several years ago, where, after I likely spent too much money in her perfectly curated booth, we started talking and realized that we both hail from the same small farming town nestled in the northwest corner of Tennessee. Maybe its because the muddy water of the Mississippi is thicker than blood, but Kim immediately felt like family. But heres the thing: I suspect she has that youre one of my people effect on pretty much everyone, and therein lies her personal sit-and-stay-awhile charm.

That sense of personal connection is another check mark in favor of farmhouse style, isnt it? At the risk of sounding a little crotchety old man, Ive found that modern-day social media connections simply cant compete with a sprawling front porch that fosters impromptu (in-person!) conversations with your neighbors or a long farmhouse table designed for sit-down Sunday suppers. Even other hallmarks of farmhouse stylefamily heirlooms, cleverly upcycled accentsare intended to connect us with the past. Creaky hardwood floors remind us of those who walked before us, as do the resourcefully repurposed items that decorate our planked walls and open shelves. (Now, if only someone could come up with a clever way to repurpose a Mason jar )

An aesthetic movement that not only values but also celebratesall things old, chipped, and weathered is pretty much destined to have longevity. Twenty years from now, you may question that chevron wallpaper or those ikat draperies, but you wont regret a cast-iron claw-foot tub or an heirloom-worthy iron bedframe. Farmhouse style is time-tested. It has staying power. You can bet the farm on it.

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