35 Farmhouse Living Room Designs

Find out how to bring a farmhouse look into your living room's design with these inspirational photos and ideas.

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Relax in Rustic Elegance

Light-filled windows emphasize the bright and airy vibe in this inviting farmhouse style living room. Hearty exposed beams, a reclaimed mantel and brick hearth combine with the whitewashed shiplap walls to offer a stunning amalgamation of rustic textures in this peaceful room.

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From: CLOTH & KIND

Make a Focal Point

Natural wood accents like the rustic, hand-hewn beams and puzzle-pieced coffee table create depth and warmth to balance this light, bright and airy living room. The neutral colors seen in this space allow the eye-catching coffee table to shine.

From: Marie Flanigan Interiors

Opt for Elegance

Dots of emerald green and black throughout this shiplap-strewn space aid in elevating it beyond the typical farmhouse look. The French doors stretch along the exterior wall, offering a view into the outdoor space and making it feel one with the interior of the home.

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From: Vernich Interiors

Line It Up

Crisp, clean lines define this farmhouse living room. This particular vignette perfectly displays the horizontal relation of the exposed beam with the built-in shelves and mantel. The barn door hardware mirrors the frame of the windows on the opposite wall.

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From: Pure Salt Interiors

Create Contrast

From the display of vintage breadboards to the extensive collection of antique glass bottles, this rustic and whimsical den feels perfectly centered between a classic farmhouse and an Italian villa. Delicate details, like the curved fireplace and modern light fixture, perfectly contrast with the rustic shelving and exposed beams.

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From: Crystal Sinclair

Warm With Wood

The floor to ceiling heart pine wood, seen in this living room, offers the space a warm glow. The patterned textiles, natural light and landscape portrait give this room a modern take on rustic farmhouse design.

From: James Farmer

Go Natural

This living room showcases natural materials, helping the space overflow with rustic charm. The reclaimed wood beams and mantel bring the eye to the focal point of the room: the gorgeous stone fireplace.

From: Martha O'Hara Interiors

Turn to Textiles

This space features gorgeous fabrics that help give it a charming farmhouse look. Textiles in this study range from a bucolic natural motif on the curtains, a traditional plaid for the armchair and an opulent area rug, all in dusky and mineral hues.

From: James Farmer

Design to Suit Your Family

Quirky elements, like a miniature kid’s table complete with eight tiny chairs, make this space feel fun and inviting without detracting from its sophisticated style. The beadboard-backed built-ins and stone fireplace keep things formal.

From: Laura Larkin

Style Thoughtfully

Vertical shiplapped walls and moody blue built-ins surround a set of French doors making for a can’t-miss visual in this cozy living room. Simple, well-curated styling of the shelving keeps the space from feeling visually cumbersome.

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Use Live-Edge Furnishings

This rustic family room features a bold, denim blue sectional that is paired with a striking live-edge coffee table. The farmhouse look in this room is carried through to the walls and ceiling, creating a stylish and cozy space.

From: Carter Kay

Pile On the Patterns

Matching built-ins frame the back wall and complement the blue tones seen in the furniture. The white shiplapped walls offer a contrast to the blue hues. Colorful patterned pillows tie into the assortment of tchotchkes beyond the velvet sofa, keeping the overall visual from being too monotonous.

WATCH THE VIDEO: Idyllic Farmhouse With Rustic Charm

From: CLOTH & KIND

Create Color Balance

A rustic wooden ceiling and beams are a nice contrast to the white floors and shiplapped walls in this farmhouse living room. Added warmth and color can be seen in the rug, pillows, blanket and glowing wall sconces.

From: Art Home Garden

Be Consistent

The traditional farmhouse living room in this open-concept home ties itself in visually with the surrounding rooms, giving the home a consistent aesthetic. Exposed beams match both the header situated between the kitchen and living room and the kitchen's range hood.

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From: Allen Tate and Luxury Portfolio International®

Try Colorful Accents

An emerald green sofa and a bright yellow cushion give this classic farmhouse living room a pop of color. By keeping the shiplapped walls white, designer Michelle Gage ensured that all eyes would be on the wooden beams, colorful accents and antique farm-inspired wall decor.

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From: Michelle Gage

Use Scandinavian Inspiration

Contemporary furniture creates a relaxing sitting area in this Scandinavian-inspired farmhouse living room. A trio of warm pendant lights, hanging from the exposed wood ceiling beams, bring a familiar rustic charm to the space that also tie-in with the exposed headers below.

From: Urbanology Designs

Texture on Texture

This lengthy living room goes all-in on the rustic side of farmhouse style. While the room is overflowing with rough, rustic textures that have us swooning, the biggest statement is made by the smooth concrete fireplace. Its contrast against the stone wall helps to tie-in the soft linen sofas and create a cozy look in the space.

From: Kelly and Co. Design

Create Simplicity

This small Nashville, Tennessee, guest cottage shows that simplicity can sometimes be the key to a successful design. Clean furnishings and minimal decorations let the stone fireplace in this living room shine.

From: Vernich Interiors

Accent With a Natural Palette

Blue and green accents are a colorful extension of the outdoors, seen through the large windows and doors flanking one wall of this living space. The colors pair well with the shiplap paneling and white oak beams.

From: Kristina Crestin

Create a Subtle Statement

Warm, exposed beam ceilings are beautiful, but sometimes a more subtle approach makes just as big of an impact. The elegant coffered ceiling, seen here, works perfectly in this open-concept space. Plus, the rich hardwood floor and crosscut coffee table offer the space plenty of warmth and rustic charm.

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From: Jaclyn Joslin

Keep Things Fresh

Designers took a more modern approach to shiplap and brick in this living room by using shiplap paired with a white brick fireplace. Gray furniture and multiple natural wood elements were added to the white space, making the room bright and cozy.

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From: Lexi Grace Design

Create a Focal Point

The fireplace is the heart of this room, with its beautiful stonework nicely complemented by the iron chandelier and hearty reclaimed wood beams seen along the door frames. Natural light streams in through the windows, offering views of the surrounding wooded lot.

From: Pfeffer Torode Architecture

Add a Statement Chandelier

This country living room has so much to offer visually that it’s almost hard to choose where to start. From the rough-sawn white oak beams bridging the stark white vaulted ceilings to the oversized iron chandelier that floats above the wooden coffee table, the space is rich with incredible design.

From: Linc Thelen Design

Create Monochromatic Magic

Leanne Ford effortlessly creates visual interest with architectural detail rather than color in this bright white farmhouse living room. Integrated doors surrounding the fireplace resemble a vertical shiplap wall and a beadboard ceiling adds intrigue where drywall would fall short.

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Warm Up With Leather

The wooden moldings, exposed beams and brown leather chairs, in this grand North Carolina home's living room, warm up the white walls and ceiling.

From: Amy Conner-Murphy

Mix Materials

The living room of this Wyoming family retreat carefully blends materials to create a rustic, yet modern space. A raw-edge coffee table mixes with clean-lined furnishings to give the home a modern vibe, despite its rustic locale. Meanwhile, a tall stone fireplace and beamed ceiling tie in with the log cabin architecture.

From: Design Associates Architects

Blend It Up

Allowing various design influences to sway the style of a space can make it feel more natural and new. This living room pairs traditional farmhouse elements like neutral fabrics, rustic wood and white shiplap with a more industrial concrete fireplace. The choice of concrete over traditional brick or stone keeps the space from feeling stiff and conventional.

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From: Marie Flanigan Interiors

Design a Modern Farmhouse

This impressive great room uses a mix of reclaimed wood elements and contemporary materials, like chrome, to create a look that's both rustic and modern. The exposed beams are made of 100-year-old barnwood and paired with sleek, contemporary furnishings to create a refined rustic look.

From: Emily Roose

Say Hello to Shiplap

Shiplap has been around for ages, but its popularity in farmhouse design has skyrocketed due to the immediate texture and visual interest it brings to any space. The use of shiplap on both the walls and vaulted ceilings does just that for this living room, while maintaining a clean, crisp atmosphere.

From: Tim Brown Architecture

Take Texture to New Heights

Upon entry into this room, your eyes are immediately drawn upward to the magnificent vaulted ceiling. The tall stone fireplace surround is a great textural asset against the jetting wood and exposed beams, and perfectly fits the farmhouse style of the home.

From: Jackson Design and Remodeling

Wrap Your Beams

Structural beams are impossible to hide, but if you want to give your living space a farmhouse look, try wrapping them with reclaimed wood. This home's living room features a reclaimed wood vaulted ceiling that is accented by the wooden beams below.

From: Andrea Swan

Paint It Black and White

With its stark white walls and rustic wood floors, this California bungalow exudes farmhouse charm. Black windows and doors have a dramatic effect on the whitewashed space, effortlessly tying in with the home’s dark furnishings.

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Pair With Plaid

The wooden boards along the vaulted ceilings and walls brings a rustic look to the space and when paired with the plaid armchair and throw pillows, this space becomes a modern interpretation of farmhouse style.

From: Martha O'Hara Interiors

Rugged Country Charm

Thanks to the pair of whitewashed French doors flanking the stone fireplace in this farmhouse living room, natural light floods the space. The doors amplify the rugged beauty of the rustic wood ceiling.

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From: Lands End Development

Make It Moody

While it’s true that many farmhouse interiors feature white shiplapped walls and neutral fabrics, it’s certainly not a rule. Sometimes, leaning into the rustic side of the classic farmhouse look will offer the result you’re after. This beauty from Blackberry Farm features a warm tongue and groove ceiling, moody board and batten walls, and a rustic stone fireplace, making for a cache of cozy.

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