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A neglected 110-year-old barn house needed some ‘updating’. Restoring and preserving the old structure was no easy task, however, I must admit the owners and architect did a brilliant job, featuring some of the most creative design solutions I have seen in quite some time; the result is a delightful disarray – a neo-Gothic barn with a modern twist.

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This 35m long house is a modern holiday home in the English countryside in Suffolk. Situated on a beautiful site by a small lake, the structure is balanced on the edge of a slope, with half cantilevered out over a meadow 5m below – As the site slopes, and the landscape with it, the visitor experiences nature first at ground level and ultimately at tree height. Fantastic!

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Modern Barn House in Connecticut

Published in Modern Architecture | On September 4th, 2011

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Partially destroyed in a fire, this historic gambrel-style dairy barn in Wilton, Connecticut, has been reconstructed and redesigned into an elegant, modern home with a loft-like living space.

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Barn Home in Falmouth

Published in Modern Architecture | On June 1st, 2009

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Reconstructed from recently salvaged timbers of a vintage 1700′s barn, this family home has succeeded in creating an old rural board-and-batten barn style look & feel with a touch of contemporary shabby-chic.

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The BrightBuilt Barn is a beautiful, Net-Zero prefab home located in Rockport, Maine. The goal behind this unique prototype is to raise awarenss about energy use, sustainability, new building methods, and open source collaboration.

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This is a beautiful barn house conversion by Belgian architecture and interior design firm BURO II. The challenge was to combine tradition, innovation and respect for the surrounding landscape in one project.

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While I was looking around for modular and prefab building manufactures, I came upon Shelter-Kit; they offer pre-cut, customized prefab cabins, homes and cottages as well as prefab barns and garage kits, designed specifically for a ‘do-it-yourself’ assembly.

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The Black Barn, from the Pinc House Prefab House Collection, is a stylish adaptation of the old Viking Long House. This beautiful yet simple structure comes in black calcimine with a tarred wooden roof and visible beams.

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Prefab barns by YBH

Published in Modern Architecture | , On October 7th, 2008

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According to Yankee Barn Homes, everybody needs a barn, so why not make it a prefab? I am all for it. You already know how I love prefabricated houses so when I came upon Yankee Barn Homes I simply had to let you know.

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