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Rural Family ResidenceThis architectural design won Custom Home magazine's 2000 Merit Award for new homes over 5000 square feet. |
Our clients sought "something that would look like it had always been there, but would also look new." The resulting design arranges sometimes strikingly different parts into a coherent whole. The building shell combines historical forms-- barn, ell, farmhouse, bunkhouse-- each clad in a different type of wood siding, but with common roof shapes and window proportions. Fronting this composition is an imposing gabled element clad in white-painted brick and broken by flat panes of fixed glass. This facade makes a determined break from tradition. "It's not farmhouse cute, it has an edge." |
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View of horse pastures and fields from the Living Room.
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The Living Room at night. |
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| The house maintains that edge throughout, playing razor-sharp modernist details against vintage Americana while rendering due respect to each. The Living Room brings those differing characters face to face. Here, stacked glazed openings in a spare, white wall stand opposite a traditional stair. | ||
Great Room-- view of Kitchen island from Family Room. |
Stone fireplace in Family Room.
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Breezeway
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Master Bedroom |
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Floor Plans
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| Text adapted from "2000 Custom Home Design Awards", Custom Home (March 2000). Photographs by Erik Kvalsvik Photography. Interior design by Johnson Berman. | ||
