Farmhouse kitchen

[Chocolateorange70]

Help! I am completely stuck on how to create a farmhouse kitchen. We have a small house that is a complete shell (it needed a lot of work doing) so we essentially have a blank canvas.

Thoughts I have had already included:
-Sage green shaker cupboards
-White porcelain/ Belfast sink
-Range style cooker
-Tiles (no idea on style/colour though)
-Table and chairs in the centre

Does anyone have any experience of what makes a cosy & traditional farm kitchen? Any advice would be really appreciated as I am completely overwhelmed by google/Pinterest. Thank you 💕

Note: Money is tight so anything that can be done ourselves/ up-cycled/ salvaged would be great

Aga (you can get secondhand for buttons), big chunky table, penny pine plate rack, open shelves, Welsh dresser, butchers block, al freestanding, no fitted kitchen. Gorgeous!

Lots of great ideas. If you are looking for a dresser, check out auctions. They often sell really cheap. You would normally have to arrange delivery yourself. Then a DIY paint job.

Agree with a previous poster, secondhand range cookers are a great way forward. We recently upgraded our Rangemaster style cooker - got a cooker in a beautiful shade of red for £700 that would have been £3.2k new. Almost perfect condition, someone had just moved into a house and didn't like the colour.

Yes, a sheila maid over the Aga, covered with washing, and a labrador or two. Quarry tiles or old stone flags and a big rug.

Stone floors, aga or rayburn, very few fitted kitchen units, a one and a half bowl sink, very large table and very solid, couple of arm chairs and maybe a sofa, cats ( lambs, laundry drying, stacks of paperwork, freshly hatched chicks that it’s too cold to put elsewhere, couple of sacks of coal, stack of logs and a random bucket, these are optional) plate rack and a selection of plates and mugs that no one is precious about.
Stone floors are a nightmare to keep clean unless there’s a strict no boots policy and the aga/rayburn makes lots of dust so cleaning is a constant battle.

Pinterest always has great ideas

Thank you all, some really great ideas. I'm going to start looking about for 2nd hand furniture.

Im finding the floor is the hardest part as I'd (ideally) like it to be easy to clean, suitable for underfloor heating, hard wearing and look nice 😂. As PP's have mentioned, flag/stone tiles would look the part but be cold and maybe hard to clean.

Big love for the plate racks, Sheila maid and cooker so they are definitely going on the list! Thanks all x

We are in a similar position. We are creating our kitchen from scratch and will build it ourselves.
The floor has me stumped. I don’t want underfloor heating so I think rules out tiles.
Wood I guess.

Anyway, we got our butlers sink off Facebook, god that was heavy to pick up! Then our work tops are oak dining tables cut to size. Painted sage cupboards. We got the doors from Facebook and painted them.

The island will be made from a console table and chest of drawers with cut to size oak table top over it. We also have a random oak unit the width of a worktop, that we use on one wall, again Facebook. I’d estimate total cost will be about £2k.

We have an ikea kitchen. It's the bodbyn door and drawer fronts. We like it. Spacious units I find.

Our wooden work surfaces have been in 12 years and look fabulous. We’ve re oiled them twice in that time. We are far from clean freaks, this is an actual farmhouse, but we do wipe up spills straight away. Our plumber said the worst thing you can put with wooden worktops is a butler sink, so we didn’t. The kitchen is huge, so we had two full sized sinks instead. I think a touch of wood or exposed stone or brick helps too.

The unit to the right of this picture is Ikea, the rest is cheap B&Q with Ikea surfaces. We bought it on a whim when we went to choose the work surfaces and I absolutely love it. It lights up too, and holds soooo much.
We are about to move house and I’m really going to miss this kitchen!

Good point about not pairing wooden tops with a butler sink. It's around the sink that the wooden tops looked the worst. I oiled them once a year and we were always wiping them and mopping up water.

Obviously everyone has different ideas but I would be careful to make sure this kitchen doesn’t end up being impractical.

Cold stone floor so you have to add a rug. I couldn’t think of anything worse in a kitchen than a rug. Food gets dropped, pets walk through, it needs to be easily cleaned.
Open shelves again how do you keep things clean with cooking grease in the air.
Table in the middle just means you are constantly walking around it to get anywhere.
Belfast sink is too deep for most people’s backs and easy to chip the sink or any plates etc that go in it. Someone said they use a plastic bowl in it, again yuck, why not just have a metal one, no need for a manky plastic bowl.

Not trying to offend, just want you to end up with a practical modern kitchen rather than something which sounds romantic but ends up being annoying.

Also live this! Wonder if this will work on mine! Currently using a plastic draining thing to slow down the damage to the wooden worktop in my old farmhouse kitchen! This would look much better 🙂