A custom build is more than just the architectural plans, construction materials, and labor — it also involves making many small decisions about finishes, which ultimately add up to reflect the home’s intended style, like a modern farmhouse. The right finishes outside and inside make a house complete, and the wrong finishes could leave you unhappy with the final result.
Regarding exterior finishes for custom farmhouses, there are many decisions to make, starting with the siding materials, whether to pitch the roof (a signature of farmhouses) and what modern designs to include. We can identify the color palette for your home’s exterior, carrying into certain elements of your home’s interior, such as the hardware finishes. Though you may indicate preferred finishes early in the process, we will continuously confirm that they are still desired throughout construction, during walkthroughs, and in talks with vendors.
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Finishes to Choose for the Exterior of Your Custom Farmhouse
There are many exterior finishes to consider for your custom farmhouse build, from the siding materials used to the roofing style and even the windows and doors you select. Our goal is to make sure the finishes you choose reflect your aesthetic preferences while also being easy to maintain and long-lasting.
Siding Materials
For the classic and immediately identifiable farmhouse look, we may suggest choosing board-and-batten siding. Panel siding can provide a more modern farmhouse aesthetic, and we can find unique siding solutions that enable you to realize your vision for the home’s exterior. In addition to helping translate the style of your house, the siding you choose will affect insulation and could have different maintenance needs, and reviewing these differences is important before making any final decisions.
Roofing
Pitched or gable roofs are a signature of farmhouse-style homes, and you can further customize yours by adjusting the angle of the pitch for a more contemporary look. Metal roofing is a common feature of modern farmhouses, offering a low-maintenance alternative to other roofing materials. Or, consider a metal roofing accent as a decorative touch. Climate, durability, roof pitch, cost, weight, and energy efficiency are key considerations for roofing finishes, as well as aesthetics.
Windows and Doors
Windows and doors are other exterior finishes to consider, and adding shutters or bringing in other signature farmhouse features can add to the overall curb appeal of your home and help complete its appearance. Many clients love to choose black steel windows to boost the modern appearance and functionality of their homes. But we can go over all the options with you that would nicely complement your home’s design.
Exterior Colors
Farmhouse homes are timeless, largely because of their typically neutral color palettes on the exterior. We can use black accents on the windows and trim of the roof to bring your custom farmhouse into the modern age and create contrast and additional curb appeal. While colors like beige, gray, and white are the most typical exterior paint choices for farmhouse homes, working with us enables clients to make unique and bold decisions with the guidance of Blythe Custom Homes.
Walkways, Driveways, and Porches
While a porch must be part of the final house plans to start construction, some of the finishes and selections are more malleable, such as the flooring for the porch. Walkways up to homes and driveways also affect the overall appearance and can be intentionally planned and designed for a modern farmhouse custom home.
Finishes to Choose for the Interior of Your Custom Farmhouse
Interior finishes should combine functionality and aesthetics. We will spend time reviewing your exact wants and needs, as well as inspiration you may have drawn from other sources, whether online or from friends’ homes you admire, so your resulting finishes reflect your original vision for your custom farmhouse.
Flooring
Building a custom home means you get to decide the exact finishes, including the flooring you include throughout your house. Wide-planked hardwood floors or engineered wood floors throughout the home may give you the classic farmhouse feel you desire, and waterproof, easy-to-maintain luxury vinyl flooring can have a similar effect, particularly in laundry rooms or basements, keeping them dry and easy to clean without compromising aesthetics. We can identify areas of the home you want carpeted and suggest the ideal tile for certain rooms, like the kitchen and bathroom.
Paint and Trim
The paint, trim colors, and finishes throughout the home will set the tone and foundation for its ambiance. We can help you decide between baseboard, molding, and millwork styles, carrying them throughout the home to promote optimal cohesion. Incorporating other features, like exposed wooden beams in the pitched ceilings of living rooms, can also amplify the farmhouse-style feel of your custom home build.
Lighting Fixtures
While recessed lighting is more common in modern homes and offers considerable convenience and ease, also incorporating chandeliers, wrought-iron sconces, and other farmhouse light fixtures that correspond with the hardware and finishes throughout the rest of the house can promote consistency throughout the entire home, further reinforcing the farmhouse-style influence.
Countertops
Durability in countertops is a top priority, whether they are in the kitchen or bathroom. Particularly for family farmhouse-style homes, enduring countertops are a must, and we can help you make selections based on endurance and aesthetics without having to compromise between the two. For example, true quartz, which is nonporous and easy to maintain, can bring a sleek presence to your country-style kitchen. Leaning into your influences even further, you may choose marble, quartzite, or butcher-block countertops for the kitchen, which can be just as sanitary when properly sealed and maintained.
Cabinets
Farmhouse-style cabinetry is generally identifiable, and the kitchen is one of the rooms where you can express your desired aesthetic clearly. Regarding the cabinet color, it might be neutral for cohesion and to enable you to decorate or be its own pop of color in and of itself and act as a design feature. Orienting cabinetry in the kitchen or incorporating open shelving will be done while considering functionality and how it will serve you when you move in. We can ensure the same cabinetry materials are carried into walk-in pantries or other prep areas to continue those plans throughout all kitchen areas. Alternatively, you might prefer entirely different finishes for sculleries or second kitchens, which we can also oblige and help you select.
Hardware
Some of the last decisions you make regarding finishes might be the hardware you choose to dot around your house. Consistency here can ensure a cohesive ambiance and tone throughout the home. Matte black metal hardware and wrought iron looks in the kitchens and bathrooms are a common style in modern custom farmhouses. In contrast, the antique brass metal finishes for hardware are more indicative of traditional farmhouse aesthetics. All hardware, down to the shower heads chosen to install in oversized custom showers to the finishes on the pot fillers over the stoves, should be picked to intentionally reflect the home’s intended style, which is part of choosing Blythe Custom Homes for your build.
Interior Doors
Selecting barn doors for closets or pantries, a signature of the farmhouse style, can help you carry that aesthetic throughout the house even further, and we can incorporate these elements tastefully and intentionally.
Considerations for Choosing Exterior and Interior Finishes for Your Farmhouse Custom Build
Choosing the right exterior and interior finishes for your new custom farmhouse involves establishing a targeted budget, prioritizing cohesion, and considering functionality as well as aesthetics.
Targeted Budget
In the beginning stages of our process, during the initial consultation, we will establish the targeted budget with you. Not only will this help inform the basic home plans, such as its total square footage, number of rooms, and major must-have features, but it can also enable us to identify how much is available for aesthetic or luxury exterior and interior finishes. We can build your vision and preferences into the targeted budget and set aside accurate allowances for selection decisions that cannot be made during pre-construction.
Cohesion
We can approach your new farmhouse custom home build with the goal of creating a cohesive house from top to bottom. Exterior finishes and interior finishes should reflect one another, encouraging a seamless flow into the home and not clashing with one another. For example, bringing the matte black trim of your farmhouse windows into the hardware of the kitchen can offer consistency without being overbearing, resulting in a house where all the finishes work in tandem with one another.
Functionality
A beautiful custom home that does not serve you with its finishes is an unsuccessful build. Functionality is just as important as aesthetics, if not more, and clients should not have to choose between one or the other, particularly when planning and building an entirely custom home. For example, if you love the appearance of hardwood floors but want added durability and easier maintenance, modern vinyl plank flooring or engineered hardwoods can provide function and an attractive look.
What Happens Before You Choose Finishes for Your Custom Farmhouse
Before you make any selections whatsoever, we will take you through a questionnaire and interview to learn more about your overall vision. This is a crucial step in the Blythe Custom Home process, which comes after the initial consultation, where you decide we are right to realize your dream home.
During this interview, we will discuss your vision in depth. If you are setting out to build a custom farmhouse, that will give us a clear idea of your overall aesthetic preferences. Bringing inspirational photos to this meeting can be beneficial, as well as mentioning finishes and elements you patently dislike.
From this meeting, we can present you with various finishes that most align with your wants and needs, offering style without forfeiting functionality or easy maintenance. This can be an ongoing conversation until you are confident in your decisions, continuing during walkthroughs of your build during construction and when meeting our vendors to discuss plumbing, lighting, and other finishes.
After confirming the house plans and getting the specifications and building costs, we can discuss more detailed features and finishes that you may not yet have decided on so that we can be best prepared to head into construction. For those decisions that cannot be made just yet, we can make allowances so that you have the means to settle on specifications down the line when you meet with our vendors.
Finalizing Selections and Interior Finishes for Your Custom Farmhouse
Throughout the new home build process, you will have multiple walkthroughs on location with Blythe Custom Homes to ensure that your previously indicated selections are still what you want, enabling us to ensure your home is just as you intended on move-in day.
For example, once the house is framed, you have done a walkthrough finalizing mechanical placements, and the drywall is installed, we will have another scheduled walkthrough at the site to confirm placements of trim and cabinetry and the specifications you have in mind for the color and style.
With each additional walkthrough of your home during the construction process, you can get a clearer idea of its result, which might sway you towards different interior finishes, specifically hardware, paint colors, and lighting fixtures. Open communication during this time is paramount and is possible via the BuilderTrend app, enabling us to stay in contact and keep you updated on events at the site when you are not present.
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