Cozy Rustic Farmhouse Winter Decor Ideas
Looking for some farmhouse inspiration for winter decor? It’s not complicated to add rustic winter charm to your home once your Christmas decorations are packed away. Come see how!
Cozy Farmhouse Winter Decor, Coming Your Way
I have this love/hate relationship with the end of the holiday season and heading into the depths of winter. I hate leaving Christmas behind, knowing it’s a full year until we get to have all that fun again (and I hate winter, so there’s that).
Yet, by the time January comes, I’m worn out. The mess in my house, the clutter in every room, the lack of organization – I’m aching inside to de-Christmas. By January 1, I’m crawling out of my skin to get my house back to normal.
Then, yet again, it’s sad – because my house looks so boring and plain after being so festive and cheerful. It’s never really made sense to me: we have spring, fall, and summer decor. Then we have Christmas decor.
But what about winter decor? Why isn’t that more of a ‘thing’?
Farmhouse Winter Decorating Ideas: There IS Life After Christmas
Well, we can make it a thing! We don’t have to go back to just the usual decor. With a few adaptations and key items, you can add some winter decor to your home that will make it feel cozy, warm, inviting – the perfect place to hibernate and ride it out until spring.
In perusing Pinterest for winter decor, I came across a few commonalities that really help create an inviting space for winter, and it’s really not that hard.
There is quite a lot of your Christmas decor that can transfer over to winter decor – and some are as easy as just dropping the red.
I’ve also included WINTER FARMHOUSE FREE PRINTABLES you can download now to give your winter decor an immediate boost!
The basic idea for rustic farmhouse winter decor is to create a cozy, calm, serene space and bring the elements of nature indoors.
You’ll notice that there’s a lot of overlap and a combination of these different details, which is great! That’s what you want – all of your components working together for a unified theme!
Personally, I think rustic farmhouse decor is PERFECT for cozy winter decorating. If you need a little tutorial on rustic decor and how to put that together, you can look at this post. It’s an overview of rustic decor as well as how to incorporate that into mantels, which is perfect for winter!
If you want to see how I switched from Christmas to winter decor in my own home in farmhouse style, check out this post! I’ve gone through each area with before and after pictures, explaining I made the transition!
Here are several ways you can create a rustic farmhouse decor in your home this winter.
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Cozy Rustic Farmhouse Winter Decorating Ideas
1| Add in Winter Whites
Snow isn’t just for Christmas decor – snow is for winter! You can keep some of your snowy decor to add in some white. The brightness helps during the bleak winter months, and that winter white adds just the right amount of coziness, in spite of its brightness.
Here are a few ways you can add in Winter Whites:
Faux Snowy Decor
Chunky Blankets
Cotton Branches
Related: 25 Budget Friendly DIY Rustic Farmhouse Home Decor Projects
2| Use Natural Elements
Unless you love skiing or the cold, chances are you are hibernating for a good part of the winter, unless absolutely necessary. (No joke, I really consult the weather app when making plans to leave the house. If it’s too cold, it’s a no-go).
I truly love the outdoors, but since I can’t go outside like I’d want to, I can bring some natural elements inside. Here are a few ways you can add in some elements from nature:
Pine Cones
Greenery
Wooden Logs
I especially love using logs and birch branches as decor outside on winter porches!
Related: 25 Ways to Decorate Using Vintage Windows
3| Aim for a Clean and Simple Look
With Christmas decor, for some reason, we really can get away with displaying as much Christmas decor as we humanly can. It’s Christmas everywhere, and there is hardly any scene or design that is considered overdone.
However, January is just the opposite.
Less is more. A clean, neat, streamlined look can bring that organized, calming feel to your home in the winter.
An easy way to have a decluttered look is by grouping like objects together as well as striving for balance and symmetry. See some examples of that below!
A Streamlined Theme:
A Hundred Affections
Textures for Depth rather than Quantity of Items
4| Use Soft and Neutral Colors
Bold and bright is perfect for Christmas – sparkles, shiny object, bright lights. It adds to the energy and excitement.
But if you are like me after winter, you are aching for some relaxation, downtime and a good slow-down. Neutral colors have a calming effect.
We sort of naturally slow down in the winter because of being confined indoors. Those neutral colors can enhance your winter relaxation. Here are a few ways you can use neutral colors:
Cozy Couches and Pillows
This is an easy DIY pillow made with a repurposed blanket! Double win!
Wall Decor
Soft Lighting
5| Add in Black & White
You might have used black and white or Buffalo Check for Christmas decor – but you can still use it for winter decor as well!
You’ll want to lose any red because red usually communicates Christmas – but the black and white is still perfect to use for winter!
Here are some ways you can incorporate black-and-white into your winter decor:
Rugs
Pillows
Cozy Blankets
Shelf |Wall Decor and Accessories
If it has to be winter, then these are the spaces I want to occupy. Rustic farmhouse decor is some of the coziest, homiest, most inviting decor going right now, and it is the perfect way to warm up a chilly winter.
As much as I hate winter, I do think it’s God’s way of getting us to slow down, rest, and renew.
If you happen to love a good DIY and would like some ideas for winter decor DIYs, be sure to check out these posts! They work wonderfully with neutral rustic decor – and in fact, you can create these for Christmas and keep them up all through the winter!
21 Cozy, Easy, & Elegant Winter Tablescape Ideas
Get Cozy this Winter with 30 Fantastic Mantel Ideas
35 DIY Winter Wreaths (Easy Non-Christmas Ideas)
35 Cozy DIY Winter Decor Ideas (Farmhouse Style)
Farmhouse Decor Down the Road
Once you’re all set for winter, Valentine’s Day and Spring are not far behind it! While you’re hibernating, if you want to start looking ahead, here are some Valentine’s Day Farmhouse-Inspired Decor Ideas – these are all budget-friendly!
Also, here are 30 Farmhouse Valentine’s Home DIY Projects.
If you’re in the South like me, spring comes sooner than later, and here are some Spring Wreaths you can start working on as well as Farmhouse Inspired Spring Home Decor as well as Spring DIY Projects!
Do you decorate your home for winter or do you go back to your standard decor after Christmas? I’d love to hear about how you hibernate!
Leave a comment and let me know!
So lovely! Great ideas and I love your post. I’ve been wanting to add more rustic elements to my home and this gives me some great ideas. I love the natural and inviting aspect of it as well. Thanks so much for sharing.
Thanks so much, Brittinni! I love farmhouse, too. It is so, so cozy and friendly. So many ways to personalize it, too. I’d love to see what you come up with! 🙂
So beautiful! About to do a vision board of home vision and will be using some of these. Thank you!
Thanks, Lynn! I’m a sucker for farmhouse! I don’t know if you’re able to share, but I’d love to see your vision board when you are done!
Love the trees in the buckets! Leaving Christmas behind is bitter sweet for me too. We make a lot of snow decorations for January.
Thanks, Hyla! I don’t know why – I’m a little slow, lol – but winter decorations are a new idea for me! Always a little behind, lol. Love the snowflake idea!!!
These are so breathtaking! Thank you for sharing <3 I’m going to pin!
Thank you so much! Aren’t they gorgeous? They give me so much inspiration!!! 🙂 Thank you for pinning! 🙂
Love these ideas, I went to jump into each of those pictures. 🙂
Oh, me, too! Nicki! I feel like I wouldn’t leave until spring! 🙂
This is what I want my winter decor to be like! The only thing I have so far is the buffalo plain pillows! I have a lot of catching up to do! Thanks for the inspiration!
#WanderingWednesday
But that’s a great start! The buffalo pillows really jump out and are super-noticeable – in a good way! Slowly I’m hoping my home will take on some of these looks! (I have twin boy toddlers, so…. it’s mayhem here most of the time! Maybe when they are a little older….maybe….lol)
I was thinking of trying some bits of the red and black Buffalo check with the whites of winter.
That’s sound like a great idea! Especially as it gets closer to Valentine’s Day! I think it would work!
Love these ideas. I love the different tones of white. I love the big chunky blankets until it comes down to it, I always think my kids would get tangled in them and they would be unknotted in no time. 😉 I am so not a decorator but I love looking at this stuff and dreaming that I am. Connecting from Grace girls today.
Thanks for coming by, Jaime! Aren’t these beautiful! I have twin toddlers so they all wouldn’t be practical in my house (BOYS!), but I’m hoping some day I can replicate some of those pictures just a LITTLE! 🙂 Thank you so much for popping over!
I love this! I was just nodding and saying, “Mmm-hmm” through the first paragraphs. I love Christmas, I hate winter. I love the decor and celebrations and festivities, and then on January 1 it’s like, “Well, NOW, it’s cold and dreary. Have a good time.” I LOVE your suggestions for greenery, blankets, and lighting. I actually decided a few months ago that I need to have JANUARY DECOR. So this month I’m sort of exploring and picking and choosing just the right stuff. I want Januarys to look cozy. Great suggestions–thanks!
Awesome, Jennifer! I’m sure you will survive winter a lot better surrounded by some prettiness (or maybe that’s just me! lol). I would love to see what you come up with! 🙂
Thanks. I actually just wrote a post about what helps me in the winter and some new things I’m doing that will post tomorrow morning (Wed. Jan. 17) on www.livegrowgive.org if you’d like to hear my two cents. 😉
Sounds great, Jennifer! I will definitely pop over to check it out – I’d love to hear your 2 cents! 🙂
I absolutely love this! Everything is so gorgeous! 🙂
Agreed, Heidi! Aren’t they amazing?!? I want to live in every. single. one. 🙂
Beautiful post! I hope you will come over and link up at Thursday Favorite Things on my blog! Happy Winter! https://followtheyellowbrickhome.com/lets-party-hygge-style/
Yes! I will head over to check it out! Thanks for letting me know and for coming by! 🙂