12 Touches to Add Farmhouse Style to Your Dining Room

If you’re looking to add some farmhouse style to your dining room, you’re in luck. A few easy tweaks can lend the warmth and homespun charm of the classic look. For a modest or nonexistent budget, simple accessorizing can do the trick. For those with a little extra time, a DIY distressed-paint project could be just what you need. If your budget is bigger, some larger elements, like doors and siding, can make that formal dining room feel more casual and comfortable. Here are some ideas to get you started.

A farm table. Well, this one’s a no-brainer: The centerpiece of the room is the table. A farm table works well with chairs from antique ladder-backs to Windsors, midcentury modern classics to supercontemporary acrylic ones. But in this kitchen, a special blue distressed paint job unites a charming hodgepodge of vintage seats, adding even more casual charm.

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Salvaged-wood walls. The rustic look of reclaimed boards on the walls, along with the exposed ceiling boards and rafters, gives this welcoming dining room a barn-like feeling.


A barn door. The barn door–hardware track look adds lots of agrarian charm. The horseshoe here adds an extra farm touch, while the chairs and table balance out the other aged elements with a more modern look. (By the way, this space actually is in a barn).


This new build was inspired by farmhouse style; barn doors with X-bases and clear glass tops separate the dining room from the hallway.


Weather vanes and other farm ephemera. Whether a whirlygig, rural landscape paintings, a tractor clock or repurposed antique lanterns, accessories can rough up a dining room just enough.

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Here a proud rooster adds an agrarian touch without too much kitsch.


Display country crocks. These antique stoneware pieces were originally designed to store food but are highly prized decorative pieces today.

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Ladder-back chairs. This classic style of chair with a rush seat was brought over from England by the original colonial settlers to their New World homesteads.

Table: Lindsey Oval, Woodbridge Furniture; wall paint: Palladian Blue HC-144, Benjamin Moore

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Simple light fixtures. This large lantern brings a big farmhouse touch to this comfortable dining room. Stools fashioned from wooden crates add a whimsical, rough-hewn touch.

Calisse 4-Light Lantern, Wood Plank Storage Benches: Ballard Designs


Of course, the utilitarian barn light is a great choice and is available in a range of colors.

Pendant lights: Penelope, John Lewis

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Board and battan siding. This treatment is commonly seen on the exteriors of farmhouses and other farm structures. In this room white board and batten, contemporary upholstered chairs and a warm wood table harmonize.

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Drape a quilt over the table. Now don’t freak out; I’m not advocating slurping spaghetti sauce atop an antique gem. I’m suggesting that those who don’t eat at the dining room table all that often use it as a prime spot to display a favorite heirloom. It’s a much better way to enjoy it than keeping it folded away in a blanket chest.


Another way to dress the table with easy farmhouse style is with rustic French grain-sack linens.

Chairs: Anziano, Donghia; light fixture: Bryant Large Billiard Light, Circa Lighting


A primitive paint job. A china cabinet, hutch, buffet or sideboard is a great place to add color. A distressed paint finish, coupled with natural wood and ivory-colored accessories, countrifies the piece here in a refined way.

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Chicken wire. In the blue wardrobe at the right in this space, the designer-resident replaced the wood door panels with chicken wire.

By the way, her dining room table is a repurposed vintage potting bench.

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Here chicken wire shows up on a primitive light fixture.

Tell us: Have you brought any farmhouse touches into your dining room or have any ideas to add to this list? Please share them with us in the Comments section.

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