Inside this modern farmhouse style home tour, design-build studio Beautiful Chaos has renovated a 1990s Prairie-style home in Maple Plain, Minnesota. The owners of the studio — a family with four kids — was looking for a slower paced lifestyle, wishing for a countryside home to raise their children. Set on 5-acres, this two-story home offers 3,500 […]
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Amazing camp-like family retreat in Wisconsin with idyllic lakeside setting
Pearson Design Group in collaboration with North Fork Builders has created Tapawingo Lake Camp, a camp-like family retreat perched above a lake in Wisconsin. This campus-style lake camp is a throwback to the classic Adirondack Mountain camps in New York. Everything about this project was carefully designed and crafted to make you feel like you are back […]
Breathtaking Santa Barbara country style home in Santa Ynez Valley
The Farm is a serene family retreat designed by Brandon Architects and built by Patterson Custom homes, nestled on a hilltop in the countryside of Santa Ynez, California. With an emphasis on indoor-outdoor living, this Santa Barbara country style home was designed as a relaxing getaway for the builder and his family. Encompassing 5,340 square feet […]
Inside a dreamy farmhouse with modern elegance in Maryland countryside
McAlpine Architects have designed this timeless farmhouse with modern elegance, nestled in the rolling hills of a countryside horse farm in Baltimore County, Maryland. The owners built this home brand new, yet they desired for it to appear as though it has always been on the property. For the aesthetics, they wished for a farmhouse […]
Serene woodsy setting inspires a stylish family home in Northern California
This stylish family home designed by Walker Warner Architects is nestled on a magnificent rural property with a park-like setting filled with mature, 80-foot oak trees in Woodside, California. This dwelling exemplifies how design can reconcile historic context, building constraints, and functionality, resulting in a cohesive and harmonious outcome. The home’s transparency and relationship to the […]
Stunning New England farmhouse nestled on woodsy property in Maine
Whitten Architects are responsible for the design of this stunning New England farmhouse nestled on a wooded property in Greater Portland, Maine. Surrounded by old New England stone walls, this two-story residence provides a lifetime home for a beautiful young family of four. The architectural design process included careful site-specific analysis and orientation of the […]
Timber frame barn house gets beautiful renovation in Maine countryside
This beautiful timber frame barn house is the work of Whitten Architects, nestled next to rich conservation land just outside of the downtown of Freeport, Maine. The homeowners were inspired by this property, one has an eye for landscape design, while the other saw plenty of potential in a two-story existing barn on the site. The […]
Modern countryside retreat nestled on idyllic landscape in the Berkshires
Olson Kundig Architects are responsible for the design of this striking modern countryside retreat nestled on three hundred acres of rolling landscape in the Berkshires, Massachusetts. The first challenge of this project was to select the optimal construction site to maximize the surroundings. “The choice was the ecotone—the border between two adjacent ecological systems,” states the […]
Gorgeous farmhouse estate unites with nature in the Michigan countryside
Sears Architects in collaboration with Scott Christopher Homes designed and built this gorgeous farmhouse estate nestled in the countryside of Rockford, Michigan. This multi-generational family compound features a main residence of almost 5,000-square-feet, a guest house, an infinity pool with a pool house, and a pole barn — all surrounded by verdant landscaping. The spacious, yet […]
A very rustic Christmas in an old Spanish country house
This Spanish country house used to be two barns that for a long time were used as stables and pens for animals, located in Sant Martí de Llémena, Girona. Until its current owners commissioned Aresta Arquitectura to rehabilitate them and turn them into this comfortable rural house with large windows. Now, they escape whenever they […]