City Farmhouse ® Kim & David

The big guy made it for Christmas shopping! 🎅🏻 First stop @cityfarmhouse @navahhomedesigns @503bloomhouse #downtownfranklintn

Last year we had the most gorgeous antique cage macaroni chandelier from Italy … and this year we have another. My favorite of all chandeliers. Urn, crock, stool and butchers spice/knife board SOLD. .. oops and table. ALL SOLD Thx for the pretty pic @beecherproch 🤍

“Even in these lowly lovelinesses,” says the title character Thomas Wingfold in George MacDonald’s novel, “there is a something that has its root deeper than your pain; that, all about us, in earth and air, wherever eye or ear can reach, there is a power ever breathing itself forth in signs, now in a daisy, now in a wind waft, a cloud, a sunset, a power that holds constant and sweetest relation with the dark and silent world within us.” Thanksgiving Day softly asks us to practice thanks for the lowly lovelinesses that make up each of our lives, to take time to notice the constant and sweetest relation offered by the giver of every good gift. Happiest of Thanksgivings to you all. We are so very grateful for the perfect gifts God sends our way … that includes you. 🧡 Image @lynn_giunta via @gardendelights

The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is thy faithfulness. Lamentations 3:22-23 Love that you share the love of our Lord @riverbendnurseries

Everything in this picture is sold but just thinking about these gorgeous doors! Happy Monday! It’s going to get rainy & cold 🥶 this week. Hope it’s nice and ☀️ in your neck of the woods. xo photo @beecherproch

It’s breadboard season. Some of these are already sold but we just brought a few more in. I curate them not only for the front side but mainly for the repairs on the back. Were these repairs out of necessity, or love? Maybe both. It could be a family heirloom. These wonderful boards are earlier than most that I see out there. Happy to have brought them to City Farmhouse for you. The small boards are perfect for serving loaves of homemade bread. And, layering multiple boards with the repair side out for art in your kitchen .. the art of mending is a beautiful art form. #cityfarmhouse #cityfarmhousestyle #antiquebreadboards #theartofmending #countryliving #frenchstyle #frenchantiques #frenchfarmhouse #kitchendesign #oldworldcharm

This gorgeous French piece is sold but I’m not sure I ever shared it with you. #frenchantiques new arrivals coming soon. photo love @victoria_pewitt

Thanks so much for the @lovelyfranklintn feature, Buffie! Read it at the link in the story. 📸 @victoria_pewitt

Thrilled to share with you that a beautiful new design book is available now from one of the most notable best selling authors for showcasing homes with vintage design, @missfifi2610. Fifi served as the editor for many shelter publications throughout her years and has written numerous interior design books. Recently, Fifi’s home received extensive damage from hurricane Milton and she’s without power and water still!! She has no insurance. A great way to help out is to buy her book, and, or donate via her Venmo (see the QR code on her page + all the details to donate directly to Fifi). There are many stunning homes throughout the pages of The Soulful Cottage. I’m so honored that pages 162-171 showcases my work at the Storybook Cottage in Leiper’s Fork. And, again in a cameo on pages 17 and page 21. This should be a time of celebration for Fifi to once again see her work in print. Please join me in celebrating my amazing friend by purchasing her new book, The Soulful Cottage, and donating via Venmo if you can. xoxo Kim

An update on Greyson and his Black Mountain, North Carolina neighbors who survived the hurricane. I want to share these text messages that Greyson has sent to me: “The videos just don’t do it justice. It smells so bad. The mud is toxic because of all of the chemicals and stuff from the flood waters and it’s drying out and turning into toxic dust that is blowing everywhere and you can’t breathe it in. It looks like an actual war zone. It’s also so silent. I just can’t get over it. That will stick with me forever.” (texted just a few days ago) And then this .. “That little thing I’m holding is the only thing I cared about finding. It was Nannaw’s. A 1920s chainmail flapper purse. She had it her entire life and I got it when she passed. I can’t believe I was able to find it. I haven’t cried this hard in a very long time.” “Omg kim what a disaster. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for whatever you did to get us food and water 🙏🙏🙏 and thank you for sharing my Venmo and I’m so grateful for all of those who gave. I want to personally respond to each of them.” “I don’t even know what all I need to replace yet. Or if I even want to. Also have no idea when I’ll start working again. I got $300 from FEMA though so hopefully that $750 will also come through eventually.” The situation is still dire for so many. Please continue to give to the people, families, reputable organizations, churches of your choice. If you would like to give directly to Greyson, please swipe for his direct Venmo. I appreciate all of you who have been so kind to give to Greyson. Many of you know him when he worked at City Farmhouse and he is my cousin 🙏🏻

Painter Vincent van Gogh on hope: “Many people seem to think it foolish, even superstitious, to believe that the world could still change for the better. And it is true that in winter it is sometimes so bitingly cold that one is tempted to say, “What do I care if there is a summer; its warmth is no help to me now.” Yes, evil often seems to surpass good. But then, in spite of us, and without our permission, there comes at last an end to the bitter frosts. One morning the wind turns, and there is a thaw. And so I must still have hope.” Source: The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh via @jamesclear “For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope”. Jeremiah 29:11 📸 Chad Black

Don’t leave anything for later. Later, the coffee gets cold. Later, you lose interest. Later, the day turns into night. Later, people grow up. Later, people grow old. Later, life goes by. Later, you regret not doing something... When you had the chance. Life is a fleeting dance, a delicate balance of moments that unfold before us, never to return in quite the same way again. Regret is a bitter pill to swallow, a weight that bears down upon the soul with the burden of missed chances and unspoken words. So, let us not leave anything for later. Let us seize the moments as they come, with hearts open and arms outstretched to embrace the possibilities that lie before us. For in the end, it is not the things we did that we regret, but the things we left undone, the words left unspoken, the dreams left unfulfilled. ✍️🏻Author|Toshikazu Kawaguchi