Small Cozy Cottage Farmhouse Tour

Good morning everyone! Welcome to Living It Country. I'm Holly and today we have a beautiful, beautiful farmhouse that we get to share today. And not only is it a farmhouse but it's a tiny, small farmhouse that's also a DIY. So Arlene, my friend from Farmhouse 2020, is sharing it here today. Her home that her and her husband built together. So it's a super special home tour today. You guys are gonna get so many ideas whether it's DIY, thrifty finds, or styling. Arlene just has a spectacular home and I'm just so honored to be sharing it here today. So make sure you check out Arlene's Instagram account in the links down below because her account is filled with just so much inspiration. You guys are just gonna want to follow her. Now a lot of you might not know that I actually watch these home tours with you guys. So when I have them go live, I've already watched them but I actually enjoy them with you guys. Now the reason why I have the home tours even on my YouTube channel is because I was looking for inspiration and Instagram is like my main jam for inspiration as well as Pinterest. And I wanted to see how other people style their homes and sometimes pictures just don't do justice. So that's where I kind of got the idea of the home tours and brought them to life. And so I just, I watch these videos over and over. I always forward through my part but I really enjoy watching these home tours with you all. So I'm gonna go ahead and get my morning started before I watch with you guys and let's go ahead and get started. Love starting off my Friday mornings with some good farmhouse inspiration from the farmhouse home tour series and today I'm starting off my morning with a McCafe coffee because I was needing some extra energy today. It wasn't a stress-free tea kind of morning. It was definitely a coffee morning and I'm feeling the fall vibes with not only my cup of coffee but my I love having candles going. It just gives me that cozy farmhouse fall vibe and let me know in the comments down below if you're feeling that too. Now I am so excited because this portion of today's video is in partnership with Goalie. I have shared Goalie many times before here and I am a customer of Goalie and so I was so excited when they asked to partner with me on today's video. Goalie is a apple It gives me so much energy as a busy mom and it's got all of the benefits of apple cider vinegar and it's got appetite control, weight loss, lowers blood sugar levels, improves the immune system, is enriched with vitamins, infused with superfoods, and you guys it tastes like a gummy starburst. It's actually so yummy that my kids eat them. It is that good. Goalie was also kind enough to give you guys a coupon code to save five percent off of your order so make sure you guys check that out in the links down below and stock up because one bottle is just not enough. Hey sweet friends this is Arlene at Farmhouse 2020 and I'm so excited to show you guys my little cottage farmhouse. I'm living a country. My husband and I built our farmhouse all by ourselves and we used an open floor plan which makes the room look a little bit bigger than it really is. Our ceilings are nine foot high and they are beadboard and I painted the beadboard white so it would look like a home that my grandmother lived in when I was a little child. So how about we start our tour over here in our kitchen. These industrial light fixtures that we picked out are from ebay and I wanted them white with the little touch of black trim around it and as you can see they still have a little bit of rust on them and all we really did was we picked out longer stems so that it would come down far enough for our island that we're going to put in later on and just rewire them. I get so many compliments on this table. Right now we're using it as a temporary island and believe it or not it was painted a mahogany color and it was really dark and dreary and so I wanted something more light and airy and I love the legs on this table and the wooden pools and so when I stripped it all down I got this beautiful wood look that is perfect for my home and I wouldn't change anything about it. Once in a while I like to switch up my home for the seasons and so this week I thought it would be fun to do this little whimsical centerpiece and really all it is is it's a glass cake plate and I have put some lamb's ear around the bottom of it. I placed a wooden tray with bead handles and a slab of wood and I thought it would be fun to do a little house in the center with our farmhouse 2020 and just placed a glass globe over the top of it. It was simple, it was fun, anybody can do that. This area over here by my door is a fun area. I thought it would be cute to put some ironstone platters at the top with a place to hang my apron and my so that way it's easy to get in my bag when I go to the grocery and then I found this cute little chippy chair that I won't do anything to. I love it the way it is. I love how the paint's peeling off of it and speaking of this little area next to my sink, well we get a lot of questions about the sink stand and this is something that me and my husband built on our own and it's built out of barn wood and the posts are six by six turn spindle posts and I just skirted it with a canvas painter's canvas cloth that I had bleached out and just folded it over and hung it up. Now the sink itself is a high back apron sink that a lady in Alabama had under her back porch and it had been under there for 20 years and so we rescued it and we brought it back home and we just cleaned it up and refinished it and I think it turned out phenomenal. We chose to go with open shelving in our home just for the fact that I don't like to open and close cabinets so much and I can display all of my collectibles next to my stove to where I can just reach up and grab a plate or if I need a sifter or measuring cups they're right there where I can reach them and just use them when I need them and my vent hood we get so many questions about and this is another project that my husband and I did and it is out of reclaimed lumber from Kentucky lumber and I didn't want to trim around it I just like the sleek smooth look of it but look at the cracks in the wood is that not amazing I love that look and so I went to Hobby Lobby the other day and I found this sign that was on sale and it said eat and it had the white kind of roughed up look and I thought it would go perfect there on my shelves I have a lot of different things that I display like these vintage ball jam jars that are in my old board and cheese box I just think that is so adorable and I have wooden spoons and I have a lot of my ironstone collection with some really old silverware some vintage plates and a glass dome and I love the height that the topiaries give to my vent range hood that makes it just kind of stand out the greenery and I like listening to music when I'm cooking so I found this it's not a vintage radio but it looks vintage so I just painted it up a light I found these little jars at Hobby Lobby and they kind of match my vintage ball jars and I thought that would be really cool to put some live plants in so I'm starting some more plants in those jars and they look really good there over on this side of my stove I have my new smeg mixer that I'm happy and pleased with it's a new addition to my smeg collection and I have a little piece up here I don't know if you guys can see it or not but it's a little tile a white ceramic tile that has a menu on it that my mother wrote for a dinner that we had on Sunday and since my mom passed away this is something that is so special to me I keep it in my kitchen all the time reminds me of her and our dinners and I just mod podged some glue on the tile I laid her menu down and I just mod podged over it and it turned out really good and I've had it that way for several years now and I just love it I love my bone handle knife collection and wood and at the top up here I just have a little milk stool that has some of my collections of ball jars on it the Louisville milk bottle and some of my metal things that I use for when I'm cooking and the grazing board I love the grazing board when we have people over or dinners with our family we just throw whatever on there and it's so easy for the kids and my family to reach and and fix another thing that we get so so many compliments on is our screen door we found this in an antique store in Louisville Kentucky and my husband found it behind a lot of items that were stored in this little area and when we seen it we had to get it it's really really tall I just love the decoration and trim and when we built our home I already knew that I wanted to have a screen door for my pantry so we hung it on the barn door sliding barn door hardware and I just love it it glides saves us space we don't have to open and close doors and so over here because we have chickens I thought it would be cute to put a little chicken display with some of our real chicken eggs and the little chippy stool we found in Madison Indiana what makes this unique is it has rollers on it and I have several stools but none with rollers on it like this so I already knew that I wanted open shelving in my pantry and like I said I like to use my vintage dishes I like to use my vintage ball jars they all have a purpose and in a small home you have to have things with a purpose and so in here is our little coffee area we come down here in the mornings and make our coffee in my jars of flour and sugar you can see I have my old vintage cups and it's so much easier just to dip in with your cup to measure something out when I cook I don't measure things precisely a lot of the time and I thought Holly might like the little sign I put in the corner over here and I may keep that up for just a little while in the little truck I have chalk so that my grandkids can write on my chalkboard that you'll see here in a minute but all of my jars I have specifically set out with things in it that I need for myself because I'm diabetic and I have to have specific things and they're easy to reach and grab a hold of I like the whisk wicker baskets that I can place like big items in to keep them kind of hidden and over here on the side you can see the little chalkboard I was talking about and I just think the trim around it is so unique and it has these little scrolly patterns and I just painted it up and stuck chalkboard in it and my kids love to write on that so here we have another little vintage stool and I put some crocheted socks on them so it won't scratch my floor we found this old ladder it's a barn ladder and we got it at a peddler's mall thought it would be really cute next to my pantry since I'm short and I have to reach things that are high up it's easy to grab and just put in my pantry to get what I need off the top shelves the apple basket I thought that was a cute thing me and my husband were at a thrift store and I found it and I thought it would be so cool to put like real fruit in it so that when my grandkids come over they can just reach in there and grab something a snack okay guys so this is one of the most talked about areas of my home as you can see it has my vintage ball jars and each one of them holds something that I cook with and I don't just display them I use them on a daily basis literally they hold my sugar and cream and pasta and up here at the top over my niche I wanted a shelf to display some ironstone I don't have a whole lot of ironstone I'm just collecting some as I find it and I found this little fretwork display and they were two pieces and I just put them together and I just think it makes my little niche stand out so much better so under my niche you can see a cream can and this cream can has a story it sat in my mom's garage for many years I remember as a child that my mom and dad built a home and it didn't have running water in it for a while and so my mom would put my sister in a wagon and my brother and I would hold the cream can so it wouldn't fall out of the wagon and she would go to the neighbor's house and we would walk pulling this wagon and she would have a little visit with the neighbor and then when it started to get dark we would walk back home holding the cream can and so that was a memory that when I seen the cream can I thought oh I have to tell that story over here is another door that we picked up in Franklin, Tennessee and I liked how it had all glass in the front because beyond the door are spiral stairs that lead up to our master suite and downstairs to our basement so all we basically did is we just sanded down a little bit of the chippy paint and left it as is and it turned out beautifully now I'm so excited and I wasn't asked to show this part but I'm going to give you guys a sneak peek of my back porch and it's going to be a dreamy back porch when it's finished we're painting it all white my husband and I cut each and every rail on this porch and you can see the little diamond shaped pattern in the center and at the top we're going to put these these transoms that are going to look like little windows and we're going to put a metal roof on top of it this piece over here is another find that I found at a thrift store and you can see the little fretwork porch railing stuff over the top of it we found that at a antique store in Bardstown, Kentucky and it holds just a lot of my ironstone ware and some vintage tablecloths that I have and I like to just display different things the bowl at the bottom holds some dishes that I found at a thrift store and we use those on our front porch sometimes when we're having breakfast and it's so easy just to take the bowl the whole bowl outside and set it on the table and everybody can just get the pieces that they need over here in the corner you can see I have another door but this door is going to go in a laundry room down in my basement someday I found it in Madison, Indiana and I just think it's adorable I love the trim under it has a lip that comes out with decorative trim under it and then I have a vintage basket and it's full of Chanel blankets that I collect from different places and it's just easy to reach over and grab something when you need it to cover up with and then you have my little small area where I sit it's our little couch and it's got Chanel blankets all over it it's a comfortable place to sit and relax so behind my sofa you'll see that we got a old church door and it's chippy it was that way when we got it and then I had a shelf that matched it pretty much perfectly and so I decided I was going to put that shelf over top the church door and it's holding my display of wooden shoelast and I just took some greenery and just kind of let it flow over top of the shelf and I also collect old church handles so on the little corbels you can see that I have some old church handles whenever I'm out and about and I see one I just pick it up bring it home with me we recently found this really cool industrial cart and it came out of a hardware store in Louisville, Kentucky which makes it even more special because we've heard of this place and you can tell that it's really worn the corners are worn down and it's scruffed up on the top and we just simply cut the handle down and it's a great place to put your coffee in the mornings or prop your feet up in the afternoon when you're really tired and then I just took a display of farm houses and farmhouses that are ceramic with my little candles and beads on a tray place some greenery atop it and it's good to go our floors you may have heard that creek it's a new home and it's already sounding old but we get a lot of questions about our floor and so if you want to go to our Instagram we'll have the information about our floors on Instagram but let me tell you guys this floor will stand up to the test of time we painted it with Bayer fortune floor paint and my granddaughter actually took a marker a permanent marker and wrote her name on my floor and it just wiped right up so I'm a believer in the Bayer fortune our table is an old farmhouse table that my husband and my son picked up at a yard sale and all I did was I painted the bottom of it and the the chairs also are the cane back chairs cane bottom chairs and I just painted those white they're a little rickety and so we're gonna switch them out with something newer here shortly and but the top of the table I will not touch it's original it's the real wide barn wood and you can see the nail holes and the nails on the top and I just love it the way it is so on top of my table I just took some eucalyptus fun that I got from Hobby Lobby I love eucalyptus and I just placed a long sugar mold on top of it and put some candles in it and it's real dreamy display whenever you have company or you have dinner with your family and friends we were recently at a peddler's mall and my husband I had this little trolley cart thing and I love that the steel is old and it's already turned it used to be red it has the wooden handles and I just threw one of my old quilts over top of it and then I have a best friend her name is Rita and we love to switch out things once in a while and so I had traded her an old vintage stove and she traded me this old vintage refrigerator and I use this refrigerator to store my jadeite collection and I get it out in the winter time and the spring time I'll let you guys take a sneak peek in here and it's just so beautiful and I use all of my vintage collection even my old potato masher my rolling pin above this vintage refrigerator I just displayed an old typewriter I love the keys on it and some old vintage clocks of course a little kerosene lamp and some stacked books above that are these wooden trowels that they used back in the day for like spreading concrete cement and I just love the different woods and the different shapes of them and so sweet friends this ends our tour of my little cottage farmhouse I hope you guys seen something or heard something in this video that inspired you and I would like to take this time to thank Holly at living in country for having me on her show you guys be blessed a big thank you to Arlene for opening up her beautiful home and sharing it with us here today I hope you guys got lots of inspiration and new ideas to check out Arlene's instagram account farmhouse 2020 down in the links below and thank you guys so much for watching I'll see you guys later on the minute country