How To Paint Farmhouse Style Decor For Spring

When painting farmhouse or cottage style decor, off- white is my color of choice, especially when decorating my home for Spring.

Freshening items with paint isn’t time-intensive at all. I finished painting several items in less than two hours….and what a difference!

I bought several frames and baskets at my favorite junk shop a few weeks ago. I got a lot of good stuff. The basket will be perfect for Spring flowers and I can paint the frames white and use them year-round. 

 I wanted to make a pretty farmhouse-style display, so painting all of the items white made sense. I love the farmhouse look, but most of my home decor is very colorful—greens, yellows, and oranges.

Maybe someday I will undertake a major decorating do-over. That would involve a lot of time, money, and energy, so maybe not.

The metal frame contained a WWII or Korean War photo of an aviator. I still have the photo and I wish to thank Laura for the information on the Veterans project. I will try to contact them and send the photo to add to their archives.

I didn’t want to toss or stick the photo in a drawer. I get a little sad when I see old photos in a junk or antique shop…..those people are someone’s relatives.

I simply dry-brushed the picture frame. Dry brushing is the art of dipping your paintbrush into the paint, wiping almost all of the paint from the brush using a paper towel or something similar and then running the paintbrush over the details of the item you are painting.

I spent about 2 minutes dry-brushing the basket. Creating depth and character with just a bit of paint is easy.

I painted the basket inside and out using Beyond Paint.

All of these wood canvas stretchers came from the junk shop and I painted all of them off-white.

Then, I distressed all of the frames by hand using 60-grit sandpaper. I couldn’t get the paint off using anything

The paint was hard to remove because the frames were unfinished wood. I had to use fsixty grit, which is really coarse to distress the paint.

The junky decorated birdhouse is an earlier project. I love that little birdhouse. I put a container of colorful impatiens in the basket.

When Spring comes around, I’m always ready to lighten things up. I can incorporate these pieces into any room in my house.

Two years ago, I painted all the wood furniture in our living room white.

How do you feel about farmhouse and cottage style decor? Do you have soft off-white or painted furniture or do you prefer wood finishes? Do you change decor with the seasons?

Check out my Farmhouse Style Bench 

As always thanks for being here, Kathy