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Can I mix mid century modern and country in kitchen

5 years ago

I am obsessed with mid century modern dining chairs- specifically dark blue ones. I’m also loving light blue cabinets. I currently have vinyl plank flooring that looks like wood. Can I mix this all together, or are the styles too different? I’m liking a modern farmhouse style, but maybe this is all too different. Please help!


kitchen vision: light blue cabinets, marble-like quartz countertop, white subway tile, white farmhouse sink, stainless steel appliances.


For the kitchen eat-in area, I picture a round dining table. Can I use a wood table and mid-century modern chairs, or should I stick with a farmhouse style?





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  • 5 years ago



  • 5 years ago
    last modified: 5 years ago

    Hot mess. Even Ecclectic has a Mission Statement that ties the choices together. If you don’t develop one for yourself, you’ll end up with a hodgepodge of completely unrelated Disney theme room things that clash. Given your pics, you really are not as in love with Fake Farmhouse as you think.

    What ties MCM to Country in your mind? A 1960 Calico Ranch Farmhouse in CT? A Farm Girl Transplanted to Manhattan? Simple Lined Functionality? Chicken Coops in Brooklyn? Most of that is a big NO.

    Develop a whole house mission statement, space plan, and color palette. Don’t do impulse. If something doesn’t fit the statement, love it from afar, but it doesn’t cross the threshold.

  • 5 years ago

    It will be absolutely fine. I have a wood table and mcm chairs and I think they look fabulous together.

  • 5 years ago

    I agree with those who think it'll look fine. The beauty of eclecticism is that YOU get to decide what looks right to your own eye, without fear of styles clashing. Generally speaking, if you love pieces, you can make them play well together.


    Have fun creating your nest!

  • 5 years ago

    If you do what you like and it makes your living situation work then things go well even if it is not a formula. Think quality , good condition and not a lot of stuff especially in the beginning. Spaces evolve. Have fun .

  • 5 years ago

    Real farmhouses in the 50s and 60s had mid-century modern elements. Houses in the country in the 50s and 60s had mid-century modern elements. But..neither the farmhouse and country elements of those homes nor the mid-century modern elements of those home were, as Live_Wire pithily put it, the Disney theme versions of those design trends.


    If you don't go over-the-top with "farmhouse" or "country", I think it can all work together well. But when you are working without a net (an inspiration pic, in this case, of the elements you want to combine), a mood board, or even better, a real mock-up, is your friend. Putting all the elements together on paper, or on computer screen will let you see how everything works together and give you a chance to course correct.

  • 5 years ago

    The expensive 'bones' of the kitchen will be farmhouse. The MCM furniture will be easy to change if it doesn't work. If you love the thought of both together, then it's worth a try.

  • 5 years ago

    Those chairs aren't in-your-face MCM. They're mostly just pleasant understated somewhat dainty chairs. (I prefer the second of the two chairs for this, though.)

  • 5 years ago

    My grandparents lived on the farm, and their furniture was MCM. Every farm place around us had MCM furniture. ‘Course nobody could sit on it, unless “company” came. Couches and chairs were SO comfortable back then.