About

The City Farmhouse Brand

The City Farmhouse brand is driven by Kim and David Leggett - A husband and wife team who has scoured the country for vintage and antiques for more than 20 years. The couple has designed & decorated numerous Middle Tennessee homes and commercial spaces, and produced 16 highly successful antique pop-up fairs. 

Kim Leggett: Style Curator

Kim Leggett’s appreciation for pieces with a past began at an early age when she tagged along with her grandmother to the Peppermint Pond Auction in Dyersburg, Tennessee for Friday night offerings of everything from period country pieces to box lots of dusty junk. Five decades later, the interior designer and style curator still hasn’t lost her passion for "pickin" – traveling to rural corners of the country to source those distinctive & vintage pieces that have pioneered the City Farmhouse brand. 

   “I am in love with the stories that these old pieces tell, the feel of the time-worn surfaces, the painstaking workmanship and design.”– Kim Leggett

It seems that anything tagged with the name “farmhouse” has been having a moment for a while – but Kim and David and their City Farmhouse brand are in leagues all their own, with no evidence of fading with the trends. Resonating with a following that has accumulated devotees spanning the globe and a series of niche projects spun from the brand, the essence of City Farmhouse seems to be in its approachability: a style that invites both sophisticated and simple aesthetics, as much inclusive of family heirlooms as upcycled pieces and industrial accents.

Designer  

Kim's fingerprints are dusted across homes across the Southeast, from log cabins tucked away in deep-seated woods, to tiny storybook cottages, to glorious Antebellum mansions in the heart of the big city. And if you are ever dining in Middle Tennessee’s booming restaurant scene, there is a likelihood that you’ll be taking your biscuits & gravy in a City Farmhouse-designed space – Puckett’s Gro. & Restaurant, the uber trendy Scout’s Pub, Homestead Manor, and Deacon's New South, to name a few. 

Kim's projects have been featured in a host of major publications, from Architectural Digest, Country Home, Prairie Style, Romantic Country, Flea Market Style, and Country Living magazines. In the summer of 2017 Kim was named a Style Maker by Country Home magazine and The Country's 100 Most Creative in January 2018 by Country Living magazine, and received the prestigious Urban Land Institute Award for Excellence in Design for her work on the Homestead Manor Restaurant and Event Venue in Thompson Station, TN. See Kim's portfolio here.

Kim's talents aren't just limited to space design. She is an alumni of the prestigious FlowerSchool New York, where she studied under the direction of famed floral designer, Michael George. 

   “I love when family and friends walk into a space and feel transported to another time, and then walk away with an authentic experience that they won’t soon forget.”–Kim Leggett

David Leggett: Lighting Designer

In 1998 David Leggett was the first in the industry to design lighting out of found objects - taking the most unexpected pieces and juxtaposing  them into stylish interior lighting sources. The collection debuted at the Marburger Farm Antique Show in Round Top, Texas with a one day sell out. The success at Marburger jumpstarted years of innovative designs featuring unique styles in lighting presented at major antique shows across the U.S. David's creative concepts found their way into the home of actress Meg Ryan, the home stores of Polo Ralph Lauren, ABC Carpet & Home, and in the catalogs of the Thomas Moser American Furniture Maker, to name a few. 

Author

Home Stories. In Kim’s new book she encourages readers to create a space that reflects the authentic story of the people who live there. Through inspiration and storytelling in her own home, Kim curates a new approach to interior design. She shows readers that anything from a history-laden antique and treasured by generations of family, to the simple sweet memory of a small framed paper leaf can become the inspiration of beautiful rooms filled with warmth and personality.

Kim walks us through the practical steps for embracing our own authentic design style, presenting homes that are so visually “well written” their stories become irresistible. Room by room and treasure by treasure, Home Stories offers an in-depth look at how to blend storied elements to create room designs that are uniquely your own. Each chapter focuses on various rooms of the house, outdoor spaces, and celebrations, with a special chapter dedicated to other people’s stories. Every page unpacks wonderful heartwarming tales of antiques, memories, and mementos—to demonstrate how thinking hard about what really speaks to you, and then using it as the basis for design, is the real secret to inspired and memorable interiors. There are plenty of projects, too—plus practical design guidance including multiple ways to style and refresh your space throughout the seasons. Full-color photographs along with personal stories prove just how welcoming and attractive a well thought out, storied design approach can be, and how such rooms will leave guests asking for “just one more story,” time after time. 

Kim authored her first design book, City Farmhouse Style, released in September 2017 and published by ABRAMS – a project that evolved from the brand and demand from her following. The book – which focuses entirely on transforming urban interiors & creative spaces into farmhouse style – is the first of its kind featuring the city homes of celebrities and farmhouse enthusiasts from all across the U.S. The book rose to Number 1 Best Seller status on Amazon months preceding, and upon its release, and was ranked Number 552 among all books on Amazon on the September 12 release date. 

  “This book is a celebration of the epitome of City Farmhouse style.” – Kim Leggett

Shop

Shop with City Farmhouse inside our 1815 historic home in the heart of downtown Franklin at 117 3rd Ave N.