Urban Farmhouse Style
Growing up in a small Tennessee town, Kim Leggett vividly remembers how her grandmother’s house always seemed to be the most stylish place in the neighborhood—but also the most comfortable and welcoming. Some of her fondest childhood memories were created in the dining room, with its rustic table and mismatched chairs, next to a vintage sideboard that held rows of pies during the holidays and untold treasures and trinkets to be discovered in its junk drawer.
Now an accomplished interior designer and antiques dealer in Franklin, Tenn., Leggett has written a new book, City Farmhouse Style: Designs for a Modern Country Life. It’s inspired by her grandmother’s imagination, creativity and reinvention, she says, and so is her career. City farmhouse style is more of a lifestyle than a formal definition of decorating, Leggett explains. Although once-functional pie safes are now modern-day centerpieces in a room and old mercantile signs are prized objets d’art, Leggett believes that the best elements of the farm can be repurposed for urban living.
Although once-functional pie safes are now modern-day centerpieces in a room and old mercantile signs are prized objets d’art, Leggett believes that the best elements of the farm can be repurposed for urban living.
“The beauty of farmhouse style is that it recognizes no boundaries,” she notes in her book. “It embraces an eclectic mix of periods and aesthetics, combining the traditional farmhouse of decades ago with modern trends of today.”
For more on Leggett and Urban Farmhouse Style see the current issue of Boulder County Home and Garden Magazine
