What’s Trending in Bedroom Furniture: Farmhouse Edition
Farmhouse bedroom furniture has changed considerably, and the heavy distressed pine and cream paintwork of previous years has largely gone. This guide covers what has replaced it: panelled and slatted headboards that reference older British joinery without the weight, muted paint colours such as sage, clay and putty that hold their tone in northern daylight, and honest timber finished in matt or light oil rather than artificially aged. We look at how simple iron and ceramic hardware sets the tone across a room, which storage shapes feel original to a house and which betray modern manufacture, and how layered linen, wool and waffle textiles carry as much of the look as the furniture does. There is advice on using rattan and cane sparingly, and on adapting the style to a square modern British room by keeping proportions contemporary and materials rural....