Has the "farmhouse" style run its' course?

To my taste, any painted brick is a big fat NO. An investor bought one in my area 3 years ago and painted the entire brick house charcoal gray and put on a black roof. The brick had formerly been light tan. It looked boring when it was first finished and now some of the painted brick seems to have changed color (not constistent).
 
GoodEnuff said:
I still do, lol. Pink and white tile on walls, pink sink, pink tub. The toilet was replaced with a white one, though. House was built in 1963 and the pink is original. When the reno's were started, I decided to keep it. We had to carefully remove all the tile around the tub, repair water damage in the walls, then replace those tiles back up.

When this was being done, the plumber told me the pink and blue were coming back in style. Sure enough, you can find it at Home Depot and Lowes (or at least you could two years ago). For once, I may be in style.

I posted pictures here but I don't know how to post the link. If interested, you can find them if you do a search for pink and white bathroom.
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Lol. I didn't have the tile but every fixture was pink. I wonder if it did ever have tile and the owner before me perhaps took care of that. Toilet was the first thing I was ever able to change out. Eventually the sink. Tub I never did.

But yeah it's back in, the retro... It was also a one bath house and the sink even with no counter was not ideal. I worked around the color of course most of the decades we lived there but pink wouldn't have been my first choice lol.

'63 sounds about right... The home was somewhere in that era and the fixtures were original. Overall though it was a nice house in a great neighborhood. The homes across the street were newer and ritzier but I loved that home.

I'll take a look for yours if I remember a bit later. I will say they were SOLID fixtures, I mean built solid. Also made them harder to take out the way they were installed and how solid they were lol.
 
MACKTEXAS said:
To my taste, any painted brick is a big fat NO. An investor bought one in my area 3 years ago and painted the entire brick house charcoal gray and put on a black roof. The brick had formerly been light tan. It looked boring when it was first finished and now some of the painted brick seems to have changed color (not constistent).
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Wrong paint? Mine was painted before I bought it 13 years ago and no telling how long it was painted before that. It's about due to be painted again but first I need to pressure wash it to see for certain.
 
JustDave said:
Does black and white make it a farmhouse? This is my house, and is what I call a farmhouse. Although pedantically speaking, it should be on a farm, and the guy that lives in it should be a farmer, not just a guy that mows the grass.View attachment 499520
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Wow Dave. That is absolutely gorgeous. Yes, my mother who grew up on a real farm would have called it farmhouse style because of the full front porch and dormers. I would be thrilled to live in it and ride my mower up and down in bliss.
 
robin416 said:
Wrong paint? Mine was painted before I bought it 13 years ago and no telling how long it was painted before that. It's about due to be painted again but first I need to pressure wash it to see for certain.
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Dunno. It's just an observation and doesn't look good (to me). But to each his own. I have enough expense keeping my wood trim painted without having to do anything more.
 
“farmhouse” … that thought takes me back to 1950 and life in the country in Ohio, on my Grandparents farm
now that was a farmhouse with a lot of character .. (I really need to go find some old pictures I have stored away)

something like this picture:
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a huge wooden house, with 9 bedrooms as I recall. and porches on three sides.
 
Nathan said:
Painting brick is just fundamentally wrong, like painting over wood grain cabinets or paneling.
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I don't know... My mom feels that way and she even recently had a very cool paint job done on her dressers. She's getting there.

Her and my dad were that way, and I mostly was, you don't paint over wood, etc... But I don't agree with it on all. And brick. Inside sometimes like a fireplace... Very dark paneling making the home dark... Changing out windows for more light...

In some cases it updates things too.

She has warm oak cabinets, they are quality too but I'd be having them refinished myself. Such was way overdone and too common. My daughter and SIL have very dark old cabinets with big hardware... NOPE. I'd be changing them out and she wants to...

It's like carpet versus none. Carpet was the thing... I hate it, it's the most dirt trapping thing there is...

I've changed my opinions through the yrs... But it does depend on the piece, the paneling, etc... I wouldn't go slap paint on everything without thinking it out...

My mom actually changed almost everything in her kitchen in recent years... Backsplash, hardware on the doors and drawers... Replaced the floor with something very nice... She just redid her basement floor, no carpet...

Anyhow, I love many old things the way they are but sometimes it's right...
 
robin416 said:
Wrong paint? Mine was painted before I bought it 13 years ago and no telling how long it was painted before that. It's about due to be painted again but first I need to pressure wash it to see for certain.
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I lived in a place the wood windowsills, open staircase, etc. had already been painted... More than one coat...

It really depends on what one is dealing with, and time and money... Stage of life even w/all of those things.

I think I said above my mom is of the era you never ever paint wood. Even she started to change with that idea...

If one has some quality antique in nice shape, I'd agree. It just depends. Same with brick imo. I do think doing it outside is asking for a lot of future painting and work. But inside? I've seen some pretty ugly fireplaces in my time... Stone and brick.
 
officerripley said:
I don't like anything farm related, especially those sliding "barn" doors they were putting in everywhere for a while.
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I like them and you can get them now in a modern style and all sorts of styles. They beat some interior door standing in the way whether it opens inward or outward imo. Anyhow they aren't all farm style.

I don't know about you but there are certain areas in some homes where they'd just be the perfect thing imo.

Before that were pocket doors and also have a purpose but not attractive generally and usually in a spot a door would be a big problem, tight space, etc.

I love that sliding idea. In your office doing some work, kids are in the next room or company is over, just slide it shut.

I'd agree with any trend it gets taken too far at times. They did become the rage. But the concept actually I think is great and you can have them done as you wish.
 
I enjoy mowing lawn on a nice day. However, it's like shoveling the white stuff in the winter, sometimes it needs to be done when you don't have the time. That's the down side of it. Or it just rained and now the grass is longer than ever but too wet to mow.

Anything can be enjoyable if planned, the time and not pressured... But both things can be that way. Make sure you have gas for the mower, blades are sharp, etc., etc. Same in winter with removal of that stuff, it really depends. If in town have to keep your sidewalk clear, if in the country, need to be able to get out of your driveway...
 
The last house I owned had one harvest gold bathroom and one avocado bathroom. Fixtures, tile, flooring...all matching. They were in excellent condition, so I saw no reason to change them out.

I didn't entertain in my bathroom....

A friend said, "Nobody's going to buy a house with those color bathrooms!" I said, "Well, I did!" I sold the house 14 years later, in less than a week, and for more than asking price.

When it sold again a few years ago, I saw in the listing pictures, that the bathrooms are still the same.
 
We have a lot of original old farm houses in my area with a lot of them still showing the original brick with a few that were painted decades ago before this was a "thing". Not all of the old brick used then has been able stand up to the weather over the years & painting them was done to keep them from eroding away to preserve the structure. The porch & other farmhouse features have been preserved as well & they look great. White was just the most common paint available at that time.

Now my parents had a neighbor whose house was built in the early 70's when the yellow brick was used so much. That color of brick still looks putrid to me & deserves to coated in paint.

One old building in a small town to the north of me needed a lot of work done. They added a wing that fits the original building style & did their best to match the red brick, but was it was still different. They decided to paint it an olive green & trimmed it out in black. When we seen they were painting it I wasn't sure about the color choice, but I was surprised who nice it looked when it was done.

The one thing I don't like with the the Gaines' farmhouse style is how they tear down all of the walls so everything is wide open including the kitchen for the "open floor plan". Kitchens create enough dirt when you cook no matter how careful you are with your stove & that's going to spread into your living area. But if you don't cook, then you don't have to worry.
 
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