Modern Farmhouse Kitchen Ideas in 2025

While highlighting the wood tones in your kitchen can give it a farmhouse look, there’s something so charming about using painted cabinets to emphasize this aesthetic. Designer Amanda Jacobs didn’t want anything to look modern in this space, and using this hazy green to coat the cabinetry helps give this fairy-tale space a bit of a vintage touch.

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Give your farmhouse kitchen a rustic appeal by hanging up your aesthetically pleasing baking pans on the wall. In this kitchen by Heather French, one half of French & French Interiors, the designer and homeowner decided to decorate with these vintage pans to bring a touch of warmth to the white walls.

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This farmhouse kitchen is given a modern touch through designer Suzanne Kasler’s use of marble, gold accents, and sleek pendant lights over the island. You can still feel the farmhouse influences through the wooden beams on the ceiling and the striped chairs, but it feels more elegant.

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In this romantic kitchen by Jeremiah Brent, you can find some farmhouse elements scattered throughout, like the multiple wood tones he decided to feature in the space. The island is a dark, beautiful wood, and the wooden beams on the ceiling bring a lighter warmth with their honey-like color. It helps this bright kitchen feel more approachable, as do many other farmhouse details.

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This moody butler’s pantry by the team at Pfeffer Torode has a few farmhouse elements to it, such as the painted-over wood paneling lining the walls. This wall accent gives the small room a more rustic feel, and the gray paint keeps it looking modern.

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The oak island in this Nashville kitchen adds an undeniable warmth to the neutral-colored room. The team at Pfeffer Torode had this one custom-made for the client, and the shiplap on the walls as well as the wooden ceiling gives this kitchen a more farmhouse vibe.

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Designer Allison Willson built her family’s farmhouse from the ground up, using elements from the natural scenery surrounding their abode for inspiration. While this farmhouse kitchen has classic touches of the aesthetic, such as the wooden beams and the vintage details, Willson added her personal spin to the room by using rubble-finished limestone walls to elevate the space and make it feel centuries-old.

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Hanging plates and serving dishes on the wall is one of the most charming details of a classic farmhouse kitchen. It makes the room feel more country-like and simple, yet Allison Willson manages to keep it elegant with the dark blue backdrop and light cabinetry.

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One of the key elements of the farmhouse aesthetic is using antique elements in your design, so for this farmhouse kitchen, designer Ashley Gilbreath utilized a built-in to hold some kitchen essentials. This built-in only adds to the rustic charm of the rest of the bright room, and displaying dishes and serveware on the shelves brings out a refined, country feel.

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Though farmhouse style is based a lot on neutral tones, that doesn’t mean you have to stay away from bold hues in your kitchen. You can still capture a more playful farmhouse look by adding bright colors, as long as you bring in other farmhouse elements. In this yellow kitchen by Cecilia Casagrande, she also used pewter hardware and light wood for the herringbone floors to add to the slight rustic and definitely whimsical feel.

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In this perfectly bright farmhouse kitchen by Leanne Ford Interiors, the Julia Child-esque pegboard to display pots and pans adds a nice European touch. Plus, if your cookware is pretty to look at, this is a good way to add metallic pops of color to the space without taking away from the neutral scheme.

Though it’s more French farmhouse than your classic farmhouse kitchen, this scullery by Lindsey Black is given dimension from the wallcovering that’s the same color as the cabinets. The simple yet impactful pattern on the wallcovering is extremely charming in the space.

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Bringing in antique touches to your farmhouse kitchen is absolutely essential to the aesthetic. Though this comforting kitchen has more Mexican roots than rustic ones, designer Rita Chan brought in farmhouse details through the little things, like this vintage shelf.

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Choosing a light color palette is very farmhouse, as is displaying your china. The team at Dunbar Road Design chose to paint this kitchen in a pale blue with neutral and light wood accents throughout.

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Wood beams are extremely popular in farmhouse kitchens, so embracing and even emphasizing them helps create that country charm. In this kitchen, designer Marie Flanigan used reclaimed beams to add that farmhouse feel.

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On top of this shiplap wall is a beautiful still-life artwork that helps add an elegant farmhouse feel with clear ties to European design. Amy Knerr, the designer of this space, chose a reflective gold frame for a touch of warmth in this neutral room.

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Neutral doesn’t mean basic, and designer Ashley Montgomery proves that in this bright and airy farmhouse kitchen. She chose a simply patterned tile backsplash behind the stove, bringing some depth and visual interest to the room.

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This moody kitchen by Sheldon Harte perfectly captures a European farmhouse vibe thanks to the use of textured wood throughout the space. From the ceiling to the cabinets, the rustic details are overflowing.

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For a more country vibe to your farmhouse kitchen, hang up some cabinet skirts in place of closed doors. It is such a charming design choice, especially in this sunny kitchen that Meta Coleman designed.

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