Even if your idea of the perfect meal at home is pre-ordering the meat feast pizza from your local takeaway restaurant to skip the queue, you may well still want a beautiful yet functional kitchen aesthetic. 

Designing and subsequently creating a kitchen space of a country farmhouse feel would, therefore, suit all purposes and style preferences. With this in mind, continue reading for a detailed guide to designing a country farmhouse kitchen. 

Warm Wooden Kitchen Cabinets 

First and foremost, one of the essential elements of a farmhouse kitchen is the addition of wooden cabinets in a soft, warm, and inviting wood, which will tie everything together and provide a perfect base to start. 

For extra farmhouse points, you could also look to incorporate different sizes and shapes of cabinet rather than sticking to a more modern and symmetrical look. Take a look around your local second-hand, charity, and antique shops for quirky items of furniture in warm wood that can be freestanding or else attached to the wall separately from your main range. 

Stick to a Neutral Color Scheme 

The color scheme of your new warm, homely, and truly stylish kitchen should be in keeping with natural, neutral, and earthy shades and tones.

Not only does this create a luxurious farmhouse feel, but it is also easy to mix and match items of décor. It will also ensure that whichever styles and finishes of wooden furniture you choose are guaranteed to blend in.

So, generally, you want to be looking at sticking to beiges, creams, light browns, and crisp whites.

Porcelain Tiles Underfoot

Another fabulous investment that will not only transform the kitchen space into a more rural yet clean and polished aesthetic but simultaneously even serve to add to your property’s value is to replace the floor with wood effect porcelain tiles from mystonefloor.com.

Alternatives to porcelain tiles include engineered marble (although considerably more expensive) and authentic wood. 

Focus on an Inviting Atmosphere

A key element of a farmhouse kitchen is the warm and inviting ambiance. This means that in the process of planning and executing your new kitchen design, you should make sure you are not overly rigid when it comes to what goes where.

Open shelving is a fantastic and, indeed, considerably affordable way of encouraging a more relaxed setting in the kitchen, and for extra points, brass horseshoes on the shelves will really bring the theme together. 

Classic Wooden Stools

Next, whether your kitchen is large enough to take a full-size kitchen island or not, the inclusion of wooden stools or even repurposed wooden stepladders acting as seats is another mainstay. 

As mentioned above, country farmhouse kitchens are all about family and atmosphere, so even if there is nowhere to sit with the stools in terms of countertop space, you could still keep them to the side and even use them as decorative storage. 

Sustainability

Not only is a drive toward becoming considerably more sustainable in terms of how you live your life at work and at home an admirable way of moving forward, but it is also entirely in keeping with the earthy farmhouse feel you want to create. 

Luckily, there are plenty of effective ways to ensure everything from the basic layout to the smaller items of décor and cooking accessories are all positioned and sourced with sustainability in mind.

Such ways include, to name but a few, the following:

• Only use low or no-VOC paints
• Look into the manufacturing process of any furniture items you buy
• Incorporate plywood into the aesthetic
• Have a wonderful mix of second-hand and new 

Carefully Chosen Storage Options

Naturally, you will need as much space as possible to store everything from jars of herbs and spices to cooking implements, but Ikea-style plastic tubs simply will not do.

Instead, look to store your extensive collection of kitchen accessories in various sizes of wicker or woven baskets, which can either be stacked on the worktop or held in a larger basket in the corner of the room.

For a more dramatic farmhouse storage option, you could even look for a second-hand apothecary table to upcycle or else treat yourself to a statement antique version for another kitchen focal point. This way, you will be simultaneously adding to the country farmhouse aesthetic at the same time as creating more useful storage space. 

Indoor Greenery

Indoor plants and, in an ideal world, a permanently open sun window or large open door to the back garden are an important part of the country feel. So it would help if you looked to incorporate kitchen-friendly indoor plants for the windowsill and center of the table.

Such plants include rosemary and basil (excellent for cooking), peace lilies, cast iron plants, rubber figs, bird’s-nest ferns, and pothos. 

Open Beams

Although slightly tricky to source and even harder to erect, for a true farmhouse vibe you need to be focusing on different shades and types of natural and raw wooden features, specifically a wooden beam across the center of the ceiling.

If you are unable to incorporate a wooden beam into the space, then you can instead choose to invest in antique, or indeed antique-chic, wooden holders and accessories to place on the countertops. 

To finish off your brand new, stunning, and homely country farmhouse kitchen, it is time to head to your local charity shops and source the most random, quirky, and truly iconic milk jugs to hang from simple metal hooks on the walls.