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A Touch of Farmhouse Charm: Easy DIY Projects to Add a Warm and Rustic Feel to Any Room
Di Liz Fourez
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- Macmillan Publishers
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- Dec 6, 2016
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- 9781624142970
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Create the Home You’ve Always Dreamed of with Easy, Authentic Farmhouse Décor
Opening A Touch of Farmhouse Charm is like taking a breath of fresh, clean country air. With the turn of each page, Liz Fourez leads you on a tour through her family’s house, restored to its 1940s rustic farm style, and teaches you how to make each handmade decoration yourself. The projects require minimal effort, yet add instant charm to any room. With your blue jeans on and a few of the most basic supplies in hand, you’ll be on your way to your dream home in no time.
You’ll learn how to make a custom wood Family Name Sign for your living room, a Wooden Boot Tray on Casters for the entryway, a Ruffled Stool Slipcover for the kitchen and a Rustic Wooden Frame for the bedroom, plus decorations for the office, bathroom, kids’ bedroom and playroom. Farmhouse style is about cultivating a connection among family, home and nature; A Touch of Farmhouse Charm helps you bring the warmth and beauty of simpler times to your modern life naturally.
Informazioni sul libro
A Touch of Farmhouse Charm: Easy DIY Projects to Add a Warm and Rustic Feel to Any Room
Di Liz Fourez
Descrizione
Create the Home You’ve Always Dreamed of with Easy, Authentic Farmhouse Décor
Opening A Touch of Farmhouse Charm is like taking a breath of fresh, clean country air. With the turn of each page, Liz Fourez leads you on a tour through her family’s house, restored to its 1940s rustic farm style, and teaches you how to make each handmade decoration yourself. The projects require minimal effort, yet add instant charm to any room. With your blue jeans on and a few of the most basic supplies in hand, you’ll be on your way to your dream home in no time.
You’ll learn how to make a custom wood Family Name Sign for your living room, a Wooden Boot Tray on Casters for the entryway, a Ruffled Stool Slipcover for the kitchen and a Rustic Wooden Frame for the bedroom, plus decorations for the office, bathroom, kids’ bedroom and playroom. Farmhouse style is about cultivating a connection among family, home and nature; A Touch of Farmhouse Charm helps you bring the warmth and beauty of simpler times to your modern life naturally.
- Editore:
- Macmillan Publishers
- Pubblicato:
- Dec 6, 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781624142970
- Formato:
- Libro
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A Touch of Farmhouse Charm - Liz Fourez
A TOUCH OF
FARMHOUSE CHARM
Easy DIY Projects to Add a Warm and Rustic Feel to Any Room
Liz Fourez
creator of Love Grows Wild
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To the three amazing people I get to share this beautiful home and life with …
Jeremy, Alec and Wyatt
INTRODUCTION
Hello, sweet friends, and welcome to our farmhouse. My husband, Jeremy, and I moved into this small Indiana home about four years ago with our two sweet boys, Alec and Wyatt, and we have been renovating room by room ever since.
Together as a family we have torn down walls, built furniture, painted every surface and restored the original charm of our 1940s farmhouse.
I think what I love most about old farmhouses is their character and the sense of history you get from them. Farmhouses were built with practical materials, and the furnishings were simple, unpretentious and collected over time. The builders used what was available to them and let nature inspire the design.
Decorating with farmhouse style today is all about blending modern amenities with elements that take you back to a simpler time. In a modern farmhouse kitchen, you might find an antique table and apron sink mixed with new white cabinetry and stainless-steel appliances.
The rooms in a modern farmhouse should feel cozy, warm, inviting and full of charm and character. Natural wood tones connect the home to the outdoors, and soft, neutral colors create a sense of calm and relaxation. Combining antiques and flea-market finds with new furniture produces a look that has evolved over time. Weathered wood, peeling paint, natural fabrics and simple, clean lines are all hallmarks of classic farmhouse style.
I’ve developed a huge passion for old farmhouses over the last four years and have come up with 70 easy ways you can add a touch of farmhouse charm in your own home. This book will show you everything from adding farmhouse-style details to your trim and doors to handmade, personalized décor full of vintage charm. I’ll also share some simple storage solutions to organize your space and my favorite paint techniques for aging furniture.
What makes this book really special is that you will not only learn how to make all these projects, but you will also get to see how I use them to decorate our home. I’ll take you on a room-by-room tour of our little farmhouse and show you how we renovated and decorated each space to turn it into the home we’ve always dreamed of.
My hope for this book is that you learn new skills and decorating ideas that will open up endless possibilities for your home and that you will be inspired to create a place that is warm, cozy and inviting for you and your family to enjoy. Home is all about the memories you make there together, and as I’m writing this I have flashbacks of dancing barefoot in the kitchen with my husband, giving my babies bubble baths in the bathtub, having family gathered around the dining room table for holidays and snuggling together on the couch watching our favorite movies.
I’m so grateful that you picked up this book and cannot wait for you to start creating your dream home. You can keep in touch with me through my blog, lovegrowswild.com, and please share your home and project photos with me on social media!
As Dorothy would say, There’s no place like home.
Let’s start creating yours.
xoxo Liz
TIPS & ADVICE
Whether you are new to decorating and creating projects or a seasoned expert, there are a handful of items that will be helpful to have before getting started. Don’t feel like you have to go out and buy everything all at once, but as you go through the book, add to your tool collection as your skill and comfort levels increase.
HERE’S WHAT I KEEP IN MY TOOLBOX:
• Angled paintbrush
• Brad nail gun
• Circular saw
• Drill with various size bits
• Electronic cutting machine
• Hammer
• Jigsaw
• Level
• Metal snips
• Miter saw
• Painter’s tape
• Paste wax
• Pliers
• Pocket-hole jig
• Sanding block or sandpaper
• Screwdriver
• Screws and nails in various sizes
• Staple gun and staples
• Tape measure
• Wall anchors
• White paint
• Wood glue
• Wood stain
Most of the projects in this book are simple and don’t require many tools, but some of them do call for things like a miter saw, pocket-hole jig or brad nail gun that you may not be familiar with.
HELPFUL TIPS FOR USING THESE TOOLS
• Saws—I use a few different types of saws in this book, and each one has a different purpose. A miter saw is great for cutting lumber and also allows you to cut on an angle. But the blade only cuts up to an 8- or 10-inch (20.5- or 25.5-cm) board, depending on the model you have. A circular saw is smaller and more portable than a miter saw, and I often use this one to cut big sheets of plywood that the miter saw cannot cut. When I need to make detailed cuts or rounded edges, I use a jigsaw. If you don’t have access to a miter saw or circular saw, most home improvement stores will cut materials for you for a small fee. Just make sure to bring a list with you of all the cuts you need.
• Brad nail gun—This tool saves a ton of time and effort when you need to use nails on a project. You load the brad nails into the gun, and it shoots the nails into the wood for you, increasing your accuracy and speed. The nail gun I have is battery powered, but you can also purchase nail guns powered by an air compressor. If you work on home projects often, I highly recommend investing in one, but any project that calls for a brad nail gun in this book can be completed using a good old-fashioned hammer and nails as well.
• Pocket-hole jig—This tool allows you to drill holes into wood at an angle, creating a pocket for a screw. You can then connect two pieces of wood together with that screw, creating a super-strong joint and hiding the screws neatly inside the pockets. Once I started building more complex furniture projects, I decided to invest in a pocket-hole jig, and it makes woodworking go so much faster. I personally use the Kreg Jig® brand, and it comes with great instructions for learning how to use this tool. There are also many resources online you can use as well. If you do not have this tool, you can modify the projects by eliminating the pocket holes and drilling a screw straight into the wood. You will be able to see the screw heads, but you can paint over them or cover them with wood filler.
• Electronic cutting machine—This is similar to a printer that plugs into your computer, but instead of printing, it has a small blade that cuts designs into paper, vinyl, fabric and more. I use this tool most often to create stencils on adhesive vinyl that I can apply to my projects and then paint over. This tool is very versatile, especially if you do a lot of crafting, and I personally use the Silhouette CAMEO® machine. Craft stores offer a wide variety of alphabet stencils as well as other designs, and you can use those on any project that calls for a stencil in this book if you do not own a cutting machine.
Lumber sizes can be confusing if you haven’t worked with them before, but this chart should help clarify. If a project calls for a 1 x 4 board, the actual size is going to be ¾ inch x 3 ½ inches (2 cm x 9 cm), but it is still called a 1 x 4. I used pine or whitewood for all the projects in this book, unless otherwise specified.
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