oh, you are my new favorite! This was an awesome post to read and I totally hear you on the "modern farmhouse" .

I am wondering:

1. are there things you need to do to meet code first or can you move in as it is? Are there exterior issues that need to be dealt with Iike leaking basement, slab, foundation?

2. where are you more inclined to focus immediacy, exterior or kitchen?

3. what sort of money can you sink in?

4. where is this what state

5. will you be bringing existing furniture or buying new?

I read pro's suggestion that interior walls [at exterior of house] have wood left in. .. so here's a similar wood/windows, and tv 'hid along with' grey-ish unit, and furniture.

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So it's already kind of a walk out. None of the house portion actually walks out but there is access from the garage. (Pics below) 

I'm glad everyone else here appreciates how over done the modern farm house vibe is. Like how many homes can have the same HobbyLobby wall art of a cow with a flower crown ὣ5‍ὊB

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1/4. So we're in the Southwest Missouri super rural no codes. It's actually got 20 acres with a stable and arena. The inspection honestly wasn't as bad as I'd thought it be. Structure is good.

2. Immediate focus is interior. Once the kitchen is functional its technically move in ready and we're in a camper right now so the sooner we finish the inside the better. 

3. We're working with about 50,000 to start

5. All new furniture with the exception of our bedroom set (very rustic) and one couch which is the most basic brown leather

When you decide kitchen layout - maybe adding a second window would brighten. As said, according to design: some parts drywall, and some not... seems they darkened half the kitchen. Of course :) using leather, tin tiles, etc....

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Red-brown exterior - if it fits a good design, you could repeat the stain color, maybe with red slate entry... who knows yet. I look forward also to seeing more.

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You said mid-century partly? --contrasting color/ materials can relieve from all the wood!?

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Green will look good agree on sage. Blue will be another good. Peach color.

Love your cabin and reminds me of a hunters' cabin I had in the Poconos PA years ago. Absolutely love it there.

Your post is very clear as to what you a going for and I agree that the kitchen (and bath) is the place to start, as long as you don't go through the front porch floor first!

The best way for all of us to help is to provide an existing floor plan with all dimensions. We can go on from there.

Sabrina I love those colors!! Especially is the green is on the teal side like that it's so moody. I'll try to upload a floor plan soon

oh and remove the two trees closest to the house.

My point was that a person doesn't have to remove 100% of the walls, or of the floors, or whatever... I think you know... and saw the lower half wall in kitchen hall [not sure] -- not saying but could it be a place for plastery/ concrete... if you'll have the materials in use elsewhere, like fp.

Do you have ideabooks with photos? are there colors/ materials you want? could a greenish counter work, to add color?

It would come up eventually about how kitchen and area around it functions.... ? what is needed, cause now might be the time... is it eat-in? and do you have a dining room?

I am with you on the modern farmhouse fad but some strategic white paint could help brighten things and reduce the cedar overdose. White ceiling would add light and show off the wood beams more. You can get thin sheetrock to cover a few walls if you want smooth color instead of painting the cedar, which would take good primer to block the oils and grain from showing through.

Whether you used a soft sage or teal instead of white, you might could paint the cabinets and replace the doors. That is if the layout works for you. I might consider flipping the dishwasher and refrigerator and extending the widows over the dishwasher.

The safety issues of the deck and porch should be top priority. Adding stone would strengthen the posts and look good too. I'd pick stone before changing exterior stain or paint.

Good luck with this big re do, it will be beautiful.

Have you considered frig about where fire extinguisher is sitting - and move peninsula / island out a few feet?

What do you have access to? little things, for example, leather which become handles.... a metal worker you know -- a rustic rolled steel fp.... a painter to accent island... have any unusual live edge wood?

Is there any flooring you can't use? a natural material for kitchen floor- and reduce amount of wood. [a Pro mentioned tiling that looks natural stone]

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Maybe 'break up' the wood with rugs...

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Looks like a lot of the interior is cedar. If you can recycle it, you could line closets with newly sanded cedar for some insect protection, and I love the smell. Knots on ceder will likely bleed through any paint, even with extensive prep. Where you want paint on cedar walls it would be best to install drywall, including between the ceiling beams. Good lighting might prevent the need to paint the ceiling. Although it would be an investment you may not have budgeted for right now, installing good LED lighting with 3500-4000K LEDs will brighten things enormously. I am not a fan of faux log siding, but it is what it is. At least you might have an easier time replacing any of it that is damaged. Here is a green that I love on rustic homes. Would do nicely as the accent color similar to the way they've used it below.

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Whoa! That bathroom is practically a studio apartment. It just needs a white floor (tile or Marmoleum) and white vanity countertop to be perfect. Oh, and new white toilet seat. The last owners were SERIOUS about their wood.

My first thought: I love the ceilings! The wood is beautiful. Since you have so much everywhere you are trying to tackle, I would suggest getting some rolls of paper - paint them if you want and start covering different areas - some walls, in some rooms all the walls, in some the walls and ceiling. This will allow you too play with what you might paint and what you will leave stained. It is a bit of work, but it will really help!

Good luck!!!

terrific idea Debbi Washburn!!!

Kitchen first? from your searches -- are you liking cabs with distressed/plain color -- or just island? ... what does that mean as to floor? concrete option...

.. wonder how many types of wood, and finishes ya have! Me.. unless that room were to have lots of light, I'd remove the knotty walls.

One of rooms seems to have less-finished wood walls.

How do you like tiled floor -- as option for any other room which would 'need it'?

Something has to go. There are just too many different woods fighting. The cleanest, simplest fix is to drywall all the walls. Leave the rest of the wood, other than refinishing the floors. If the kitchen cabinets are in good shape, maybe you could paint them a green/blue color. Lots of,cooler toned furniture and accessories. Power wash the exterior and go with a dark brown with stone accents.

First I'd decide which areas you absolutely want to keep as cedar and then consider those that you're willing to let go whether just painting those areas or adding drywall would be needed.

Here's a mid-century modern style with "cedar" looking exterior walls and ceiling. There are other views in the link too.

https://www.houzz.com/photos/family-room-midcentury-living-room-phvw-vp~115185679

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I would also consider if there is any way to enlarge some of the windows to bring in more light too. As you can see in the above picture the large windows also help with the look.

For the kitchen you'd have to remove the breakfast bar to add an island and since you'd be doing that you might as well consider re-working the rest of the kitchen. Those doors seems great at collecting dust and grease so won't be a great loss from that perspective. The stove right next to the sink like that is also a really poor layout and will make it unpleasant to have more than one person in the kitchen. I'd move the sink or stove depending on what makes the most sense for your family. Also the dishwasher seems very far from the sink. If you fix those things then it really makes sense to get new cabinets or try to rework the ones you have with paint and new doors by re-arranging things. I can't tell the construction of the cabinets if that would be worth it at all or not.

1. Lights:

For the immediate need to see what you are doing, I suggest you buy 10 4-packs of "Bright White" (not the yellower Soft White) LED bulbs (or the bluer Daylight if you prefer it) for the ceiling fans and fixtures, and 12 plug-and-play LED tubes that plug right into the existing fluorescent fixtures. The fluorescent fixtures may take 2 or 4 each. Order more if you don't get enough the first time. Both are at big box stores and online. The previous occupants probably let many of the bulbs go unreplaced when they burned out.

2. Floors:

Sand a one-foot square of hardwood flooring to see how light it is under the old brown finish. I suggest choosing a no-stain polyurethane when you refinish the floors.

3. Outside:

Repair the railings so they are safe. Hire a nice big dumpster for the trash and old branches. You may need a separate trip to a hazardous waste site if anything suspicious has been left behind. If there are no bright outside lights, buy some 2-floodlight utility lights you can use temporarily at each entrance and the garage until you are ready for fancier nice outside fixtures.

If you want advice on securing the property (locks, windows, cameras, storage areas, etc.) you can start a separate post.

I cringe every time someone suggests drywalling the walls. I think better lighting will really help. You will also have rugs on the floors. I think you should focus on a couple spaces you want to do first (kitchen?) and also put together an idea book with some pictures of houses and spaces you really like. Once you get brighter lights up, you can stage mock ups in the different spaces using cheap, light colored tarps. Stage them as rugs, hang them on the wall to simulate paint/drywall, etc. You can get a feel for how spaces look with various surfaces covered up. Better to spend a little time and money than to commit a lot of time and money on something you dislike in a couple years. Oh, and pics of the horses please!!

Why not put up drywall in some spaces? If it doesn't ruin the underlying walls or logs, it would give the eyes some rest. The wood will still show on the outside . . . to me that makes much more sense than staining or painting the wood. And I love, love wood, so I would not get rid of it, but even log homes often have some flat drywall walls inside, which also allows for insulation . . . to really appreciate the wood and its grain, one's brain must have some "not wood" to contrast it with, otherwise it all bleeds together and just starts to look like a big woodpile. Those wood cabinets in the kitchen are unique, so my top candidate for drywall would be the other areas of the kitchen. I'd be careful not to damage the underlying wood, or if removed, do it carefully so it could be re-used. It's a valuable resource, I would not rip it out in the fashion I see so often on those home remodeling TV shows. Cabinets and wood can be salvaged and donated to salvage places. Our local town has a very active one run by "Habitat for Humanity" for example.

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Do you have anything interesting in the barn(s) that can be reclaimed and turned into lighting fixtures?

So some people have suggested drywall over the wood. Is that possible? I guess I just figured we'd have to remove it to put drywall up

Are the interior partition walls actual log or log veneer? If solid I would install 1x4 strapping vertically over the log face then install drywall, if it’s just log veneer I would pull it off and install the drywall on the studs.

All the exterior walls are solid log then have veneer over that. It appears the the walls cutting the rooms up are not solid log

I'd paint vertical surfaces a light neutral color, keep the natural wood on the ceiling.

Update: this is definitely the vibe we are going for. Working on some renderings

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Looks like you could install concrete for floors, if needed... under cabinet lighting.

Possible you'd like Ikea's smooth cabinets? is there a muted blue color...

or let large-scaled lights like this room.

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What will be the first thing you tackle? Are you living there while all of this happens?

RL first thing will be the deck/exterior as per the insurance company we have 60 days to get the deck safe and then it will be the kitchen since it's completely unfunctional at this point. After we get those two items done we'll move in

ok so that is what the focus should be for ppl in the thread right now. what have you come up with?

have you thought about removing a least on if not both of those trees close to the house? maybe bringing in some backfill to level out the front a little? plan to run it the length of the house where is see those pillars by the driveway?

Just a design detail from spare wood -

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