Style House-Proverb 31 Girl
Hello City Farmhouse readers. I am so beyond honored to be here and so grateful for Jen for this opportunity! I’m Allie, from Proverbs31girl , and I am so excited to be able to share our sweet little farmhouse with you. Unlike Jen whose on the water (so jealous!) we sit on a quaint three acre old farmstead in the heart of Minnesota. We actually bought the place on a real estate auction (most stressful day of my life!) and have been working on it the last four years to bring this 100 year-old-farmhouse back to it’s glory! I would say my style is modern farmhouse, but I’ll let you decide for yourself. So if you’d like to join me, I’d love to show you around.
Here’s a little idea of our setting. It’s very much a classic farmhouse with white siding and black shutters. We have slowly been updating the landscaping as well.
And now lets go inside.
Our biggest transformation in the house was the kitchen, which is the room you walk into as you enter that front door. Check out my blog if you want to see the before pictures. The biggest changes we made were blowing out walls to open up the space and put in a large open staircase which became the focal point in our house.
The name of the game on this complete house gut, was BUDGET 🙂 So although we needed to start this kitchen from scratch, we actually got these cabinets for FREE from a lady my mother-in-law worked for. Such a blessing! They used to be cherry and we painted them Sharkey Gray by Martha Stewart.
I loved that we could fit an eat in kitchen in this area, as well as a small island. If there’s one thing that’s not so great about old houses is the storage, so we need to make the most of every single space.
One of my favorite DIY’s I did was this command center to the right of the fridge. It’s the perfect spot to keep the laptop, and also helps to keep bills organized, along with our weeks activities.
On the opposite side of this wall is our dining room…
There actually wasn’t a formal dining room in the house when we bought it, so we pushed back a wall and created one.
I recently just added the floor to ceiling board and batten, and am loving how crisp and fresh it is in here now. If you haven’t figured it out by now, I’m a sucker for neutrals. You won’t see too much color in here.
I’m also a sucker for cheap DIY’s, which is why I had fun giving this $10 dresser a complete makeover and turned it into a buffet.
and off of the dining room is where we have a formal sitting area with fireplace.
This is the room that you can usually find me.
in this chair actually….
I love how the fireplace is central to the whole house. You can see it from just about everywhere.
and off of this room is the living room.
and this is usually where you will find the kiddos:)
I’m working toward having this whole house planked:) That would be my perfect end result…it just takes time:)
Upstairs is our master bedroom.
In a small house, this room seems a bit ridiculous, but hey, I’ll take it:) This was an addition the previous owners had done, although when we bought it, it was broken up with a walk in closet on the left side of the room and more closets over there as well. It also only had 7 1/2 foot ceilings, which we raised to 10 1/2 feet since it was just open attic space above.
Our room has also doubled as a nursery lately…
so it’s been nice to have the space.
we moved the closets to the other side of the room.
and also moved the laundry from the main floor bathroom, to up here.
it also doubled as a closet for our little guy:)
like I said before, we have to make use of every inch of space 🙂
our bedroom opens to the shared bathroom upstairs. Although I’d love my own, I’m grateful we have an entry:)
We turned this $5 dresser into a vanity.
and added more planks. Seriously, you can never have enough! 🙂
And the most recent redo was my little ladies room.
I had so much fun making this space for her!
and that’s it for the tour. There’s always projects I’m working on, so head over anytime you want to catch up!
I thought I would also give you a quick glimpse of some of the other buildings on our property that we’ve been having fun renovating.
We have an old barn we use as an occasional shop where we sell repurposed good and home items four times a year.
a small garage turned guest house for company.
and our current project, an old grainery turned man cave.
This is a work in progress, but I assure you, it will be worth the wait!
Thanks so much for taking some time to let me show you around! And thanks Jen for letting me join in your love for farmhouse style!
xoxo
allie
P.S. If you’d like to follow along on our journey, you can find me here:
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Thank you Allie for sharing your stunning home with us!
Have a beautiful Monday friends!
Oh my goodness! This house is so stunning! I love the clean, bright whites everywhere. It’s nice to see a house that isn’t massive in size but still packs a big punch in style.
I am currently adding on a piece to a 100 year old farmhouse and love your style. I have board and batten in my living room (unpainted) and love how the white brightens up the place. We are adding a brand new kitchen but I want to keep the feel of a farmhouse style. Your home is beautiful!
Beautiful home! And Allie’s from my hometown!
Wow, your home is beautiful….all those out buildings! Love very bit of this tour!
You have done some amazing things with this old homestead, Allie. Very beautiful and functional as well. I just have to love a kitchen at the bottom of the stairs to start a day off on the right note. Thanks for sharing this.
What a charming old farmhouse…they have done a wonderful job on the makeover.
Blessings,
Linda
Allie, your house is gorgeous! Beautiful job from top to bottom. Thank you for sharing!!
Oh I just love Allie’s house!! So cool!! Inside and out!! love it girl!!
Beautiful home, love the kitchen and stairway, little girls room is adorable. Love the planks and the front steps too. Thanks so much for sharing.
how completely charming!!
This is my dream home now.
I love, love, LOVE this home! Pinned for sure 🙂 Please someone tell me about the awesome floor in the kitchen!
Thank you so much for your sweet comment:) The floors are acutally a laminate we found on ifloors.com. I’m not sure if they have the exact same color options available, but I know they have similiar ones. It is called a french bleed laminate and our color was called chateau. Hope that helps!
Love your beautiful home! Thanks for sharing it with us. I plan to tackle one room at a time in a similar look. Of course I’ll have to leave a room or two for my honey’s style. He wouldn’t go for all the white! 🙂 I love it though!
Will you please share what type of paint or brand you use on renovating the dressers?
Thank you!
Thanks so much for the sweet comments. I’m not exactly sure what dressers you are referring too, but the buffet dresser I whitewashed, using 1/2 gray paint and 1/2 water mixed…I have a DIY on the blog on how I did it:) As for the upstairs vanity, that was in Martha Stewart Sharkey Gray with a glaze stain on the drawers! Hope that helps and thanks for following along!:)
Indeed!! So inspirational ! Congrats!
I love the use of outbuildings on the property to pick up more space! I live in a 100-yr old farmhouse and I really love the smaller cozy rooms so i’m not in a hurry to add-on. I can’t wait to see the shed-turned-mancave! I will be checking back for sure!!!
Wow! So beautiful! I absolutely love all the white panelling and planking!
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a home I’ve loved so much. It’s like you took everything I absolutely love (stump tables! white planks, farmhouse sink, white, white, white, plus a bit of blue and wood). I just love it. Please come up to Canada and redecorate my entire house for me. :p
This is silly but I don’t know what to click on to follow your blog. They used to just say “click to follow” but now it is confusing to me:) Loved your pictures and postings. Thanks.
Where diD you get the mirror on top of the buffet table?! I need it!!!
Beautiful! Where did you get those curtains behind your reading chair in the living room. They are exactly what I am looking for!
I’m just curious where the throw pillows on the couch and the curtains behind the couch are from? This home is gorgeous!
Beautiful home! Would love to find the mirrors you have above the buffet. Where did you get them?
Just wow – times about a bajillion.
Where did you get those curtains behind the couch?! Those are amazing!!
Hi there, what a beautiful home you have made. I love the all white. What color white did you use on the living room walls and fire place. I just recently painted my fire place alabaster white from SW but now I want to do my walls and i’m not sure if I should do the walls a different shade of white or the same color. But i love yours if you could let me know what brand and color.. thanks so much. Enjoy your beautiful home!!
Laurie
I love your farmhouse! It’s so cute!! And I’m dying over the curtains in your formal sitting room. Did you make them or buy them? Where did you get the fabric?
Thanks!
I have been searching so long for those curtains, but no luck. I love them and nothing else will do…ok I’m a bit dramatic:) can you please share where you got them? I’d be so grateful!!
Hi Megan,
I think she made them but try the Ikat Drapes from West Elm:). Good Luck! Jen