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This Twitter Account Is Shaming Homes That Try Too Hard To Come Off As Chic Farmhouses, Here Are 40 Of Its Funniest Pics
There's a Twitter account called 'Farmhouse Shaming' and it's pretty much what you'd expect it to be. Hilarious. According to its description, the account is directed at the current middle-class suburban interpretation of low-income rural housing aesthetics. More specifically, the seriously bonkers aesthetic dissonance that it creates.
It has all the cliches you can think of; from overused pseudo-motivating signs to outdoor picnic tables indoors and SO. MANY. BARN. DOORS. (Seriously, can someone tell me why people are putting them everywhere they can?)
But, to paraphrase a popular saying, your farmhouse is your colonial mansion. Nobody can stop you from decorating it however the heck you want it to look.
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GoddessOdd 2 years ago
Whatever did we do before we had signs on every wall... LIVE LAUGH LOVE!!! GATHER!!!! FAMILY!!!!!... how did we live without the instructions?
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GoddessOdd 2 years ago
Painting genuine antiques is a shame. This could be restored, at great expense.
Interestingly, though, we're probably going to see a lot more interiors like these. According to a 2020 survey conducted by Homes.com of more than 5,000 adults across the U.S., "modern farmhouse" was the favorite house style in 42 out of 50 states.
Particularly in the Northwest, East, and Southeast, respondents opted for the classic, comfortable home style. According to those surveyed, a modern farmhouse looks "simple, cozy, and not too busy" and like "a nice big home for a family." Since time at home has recently gained new importance, it's no surprise that people are trying to balance what they consider to be beauty with comfort.
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Little Wonder 2 years ago
Especially beautiful mid-century or antique pieces. Get reproductions if you want to paint them, you heathens.
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Octavia Hansen 2 years ago
This is the kind of sign that would send me RUNNING from the house. Cult religion? Instructional sign to be submissive. No thanks.
The runner-up most popular style was the "Mid-century Modern Ranch," which is preferred by residents of Midwestern states such as Wisconsin and Minnesota, as well as Southwest states such as Colorado and Arizona. The Mid-century Modern Ranch is known for its "clean lines and big windows," and for being more "minimal and natural-looking," according to the respondents.
According to the survey, homebuyers pay roughly equal attention to many exterior features of a potential home. The size of the windows is most important to them, but they'll also keep an eye out for the number of windows, the presence of a porch or patio, and the shape of the roof.
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Octavia Hansen 2 years ago
Sharp, pointy objects on the ceiling and cactus print on the pillow . . . what message are they sending?
'Live, Laugh, Love' (which has become an online synonym for basicness) dominates 'Farmhouse Shaming.'
Online retailers like Not on the High Street, Etsy, and Wayfair all stock hundreds of items urging us to Live, Laugh and Love in our homes with everything from wall stickers to coasters and pillows.
While it has often been misattributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson, the words were first linked together in a poem called 'Success' by Iowan writer Bessie Anderson Stanley in 1904.
The opening line of the poem reads: "He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much."
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GoddessOdd 2 years ago
Amen! I heard about people stealing other people's empty barns, because they can sell the wood to city folks to make fake farmhouse stuff with.
The poem was originally written as an entry for an essay contest run by Brown Book Magazine, and Bessie actually won a cash prize of $250 for it, which paid off the mortgage on her house, among other things. When she died in 1952, aged 73, the verse was inscribed on her gravestone in Lincoln Cemetery, Kansas.
Fast-forward 70 years and as one tweet by 'Farmhouse Shaming' shows, now you can even be buried in 'Live, Laugh, Love.' There are actual casket companies that offer shabby chic-styled coffins with the words written on the inside.
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GoddessOdd 2 years ago
Some of the engineered flooring is really great these days, but just as much is totally hideous. This would make me want to sand the floor every time I saw it.
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GoddessOdd 2 years ago
And someone is so very proud of this. Fake wear on paint always looks cheap to me.
Chris Boots, an owner of one of these companies, told Refinery29 that in the three years after they came up with the idea for the coffin's design, it has become one of their most popular products.
"We've found that our customers really like the option of this casket, it's more of a whitewashed look which is a popular style; but the quote is extremely popular too," Boots said, adding that they sell for around $1,500-$2,500.
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Rose Button 🇺🇦 2 years ago
This belongs on the witch from Hansel and Gretel's house "eat...eat...I'm always watching..."
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Brittany Howard 2 years ago
This actually makes me mad. Where's the bathroom storage?! How are short people supposed to use that mirror?!
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GoddessOdd 2 years ago (edited)
It bears more than a passing resemblance to Florida's "Old Sparky". All it needs is some wrist and ankle restraints.
If you pull it off, however, the modern farmhouse can really be a welcoming design. Experts think that many people have gravitated to it because it can easily work with other styles. In recent years, there have been many spinoffs with coastal, Scandinavian, and industrial versions.
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GoddessOdd 2 years ago
I bet this is an Instagram tub... just around for photos. I'll bet no one ever uses it because it's about as uncomfortable as a tub can be, is hard to get in and out of, and takes forever to fill.
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GoddessOdd 2 years ago
Not a fan of barn doors as used lately, but at least make the trim on them symmetrical. These are pocket door wannabes 😂😂😂
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Little Wonder 2 years ago
Were they going for "worn paint" as a look? Because they missed and landed on "Sloppy undercoat"
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GoddessOdd 2 years ago (edited)
I think I would almost rather be buried in this TV stand than the farmhouse coffin in the previous post.
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GoddessOdd 2 years ago
On one hand, I am very happy they kept stuff out of the landfill... I am all about the reduce-reuse-recycle thing, but it looks like they butchered a usable table to make this... chimera.
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Rose Button 🇺🇦 2 years ago
So a little over last year my dad got a job out west and we had to move across the country. This meant going through the middle of nowhere in the Midwest. And staying in people's basement AirBNBs. Scary enough as it was (esspicalky with Covid) but apparently the midwest is obsessed OBSESSED with this farmhouse aesthetic. I'm talking full done up walls with GaThEr and LiVe LaUgH LoVe at least 50 times. And those family photos with skinny jeans and white shirts with a vintage filter. It was the single most terrifying experience of my life. Imagine all these images in one house. Midwest pandas: yall ok?
Ross Warren 2 years ago
I live in an actual Midwestern farmhouse and even I think that this kind of c**p is ugly.
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Dave Hinckley 2 years ago (edited)
My great-grandfather was a farmer. His house didn't have any of this c**p. On a side note, i have his scythe, axe, sledgehammer, hay fork and butchering knives.
Faramir10 2 years ago
Same here. My grandparents were farmers. Their house didn't look anything like these pictures.
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Octavia Hansen 2 years ago
OUCH! My furniture comes from curbside or thrift stores and I do BETTER than any of this! Do people really lack that much taste and art sense that these photos are taken seriously? Oh, well, even a bad example serves a purpose . . . don't decorate like this!
Lea S. 2 years ago
When someone buys a house and buys the furniture they get to decorate how they want.
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Rose Button 🇺🇦 2 years ago
So a little over last year my dad got a job out west and we had to move across the country. This meant going through the middle of nowhere in the Midwest. And staying in people's basement AirBNBs. Scary enough as it was (esspicalky with Covid) but apparently the midwest is obsessed OBSESSED with this farmhouse aesthetic. I'm talking full done up walls with GaThEr and LiVe LaUgH LoVe at least 50 times. And those family photos with skinny jeans and white shirts with a vintage filter. It was the single most terrifying experience of my life. Imagine all these images in one house. Midwest pandas: yall ok?
Ross Warren 2 years ago
I live in an actual Midwestern farmhouse and even I think that this kind of c**p is ugly.
Load More Replies... Dave Hinckley 2 years ago (edited)
My great-grandfather was a farmer. His house didn't have any of this c**p. On a side note, i have his scythe, axe, sledgehammer, hay fork and butchering knives.
Faramir10 2 years ago
Same here. My grandparents were farmers. Their house didn't look anything like these pictures.
Load More Replies... Octavia Hansen 2 years ago
OUCH! My furniture comes from curbside or thrift stores and I do BETTER than any of this! Do people really lack that much taste and art sense that these photos are taken seriously? Oh, well, even a bad example serves a purpose . . . don't decorate like this!
Lea S. 2 years ago
When someone buys a house and buys the furniture they get to decorate how they want.
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