Patina Living & Loving: European Farmhouse Style

Patina Living & Loving: European Farmhouse Style is my tribute to the third book in the Patina trilogy by Brooke and Steve Giannetti! If you loved Patina Farm, this volume goes deeper. Inside, you’ll discover more than design savvy eye candy or lovely garden inspiration. Warmth, heart-fullness, and hopefulness (so often in short supply within the design world and culture in general!) are blooming too.

Let’s re-visit this review I shared in 2019 since I already know how many of you admire the work of the Giannettis. The designers followed their hearts, dreamed big, and allowed an adventure to shape them into something new.

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Patina Living & Loving: European Farmhouse Style

As I type these words, my guys can barely contain their joy about a favorite TV premiere tonight. Me? Let me luxuriate in this gorgeous book’s European farmhouse inspired Patina Farm pages!

Does your design library include Patina Farm?

Remember when the interiors were taking shape!?!

Inside Patina Living is a gorgeous von gorgeous collection of images, recipes, and snapshots of organic Cali French farmhouse life.

Patina Farm is a Real Farm

If you are a longtime follower of Brooke Giannetti’s Velvet and Linen, you likely devoured construction chronicles of Patina Farm as well animal adoption updates. Goats, donkeys, sheep, cows and also chickens bring fullness of life and love to the landscape.

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People often ask us “Do you eat your animals?” The answer is “No”. Once we started living with animals and connecting with them we could no longer eat meat. Steve and I eat a plant based whole food diet. (Check out @forksoverknives for more info) The next question is usually “Then why do you have all of these animals?” There are many reasons why we love our life with our fluffy family members. Their energy brings life to our farm. They also help us keep our land healthy. All of our animals have a job. Our cows Beatrice and Clementine keep our fields mowed and give us manure to enrich our soil. They are the sweetest lawn mowers I’ve ever met, and their soft mooing is so much more pleasing than the annoying drone of a gas powered mower. . . . @stevegiannetti @giannettihome . . . #patinafarm #patinaliving #beatriceandclementine #highlandcow #scottishhighlandcattle #ojai #ojaicalifornia

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Brooke and Steve’s vision of pastoral tranquility for their family led to more than a showhouse for their many talents. Their dream also inspires us to dream!

European Modern Farmhouse Master Bedroom

I could ramble on about how their aesthetic and lifestyle philosophies speak to me. However, let’s get to the new pretty patina-ed glimpses!

Peek Inside Patina Living’s Pages!

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It’s almost here!!! Pre-order your copy of PATINA LIVING (click link in my bio) by Brooke and Steve Giannetti, who invite us to soak in the beauty and joy of life on their little farm in Ojai, CA, and dream about nature’s healing bounty of lovely. #patinaliving #patinafarm #brookegiannetti #stevegiannetti @giannettihome #velvetandlinen @velvetandlinen #europeanfarmhouse #moderneuropeanfarmhouse #ojaicalifornia #farmlifestyle #babydollsheep #minidonkey #pygmygoat #frenchfarmhouse #frenchfarmhousestyle #frenchcountrystyle #frenchcountrydecor #frenchcountrylife #europeancountry @gibbssmithbooks #gibbssmith #farmhouselife #modernfarmhousestyle #rusticmodern #gardendesignideas

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Are we interested in how Patina Farm’s gardens grow? Oui, oui. But will French farmhouse interior design freaks also be pleased?

All the yeps.

French Country Inspired Dining Room

Oh, Patina Farm dining room, I could get used to your lofty ceilings.

Blissful Window Seat

Would you choose to get literary or lounge-y with a gentle breeze?

Heavenly Gardens at the Farm

While the interiors of Patina Farm may be laid-back luxe, the outdoors are certainly lush!

If beautiful country gardens and climbing roses take your breath away, you’re indeed in for a treat!

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I appreciate the way our garden looks all year long, but Spring is the time when all of my roses are the happiest. A few details:The small hedge below the Eden roses is Germander (Teucrium). The round shrubs in our front garden are Little Ollies (a bush form of olive) and Pittosporum (Wheeler’s Dwarf). Our ground cover is Catmint. Be careful. It spreads! We also have a couple of different types of lavender. We have a variety of roses around our property. We share the layout and types of all plant material that we used in our book, Patina Living. Link in my bio. If you are interested in staddle stones (the cement “mushrooms”) We have a couple available at the store. please contact Kerri: [email protected] My apron is available on our website @giannettihome under the clothing link. Sending you wishes for good health and peace from Patina Farm. . . . @stevegiannetti @giannettihome . . . #patinafarm #patinaliving #edenrose #garden #gardeninspiration #gardeninspo #gardenroses #californiagarden #ojai #rescuecat

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Don’t you love those peeks Brooke shares of Patina Farm through the seasons!?!

When the Gardens Were Young

It feels like yesterday the Giannettis were planting their gardens!

You’ll delight in Patina Living’s visual treasury of natural farmhouse beauty. It glows with a sort of golden warmth that can truly only develop with time and tenderness.

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Peace to you right where you are.

-michele

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