Heather McGowen from Donald Gardiner Architects Inc. sent a nice email suggesting that they had several modern farmhouse plans for sale on their site. I took a look and found this one.It has several elements that I love:
- Multiple buildings
- A covered connection between the two buildings
- Transom windows
- A large porch
- Wide stairs
- A cupola
The paladian windows are a little over the top for my taste, but all in all a nice building.Click here for more info.
2 responses so far ↓
1 paul schuster // Nov 28, 2007 at 1:32 pm
errrrr, modern? I don’t think they get it.
it’s almost anti-modern in aesthetics…
2 Jamie // Nov 29, 2007 at 3:20 pm
Hey Paul,
Thanks for the comment. I see that I have faded away from the Modern side of the Farmhouse…..Modern continuum. You are right, this house, particularly the exterior elevation is not Modern.
In fact, now that I look at it, there is not one single modern thing about it. My argument for continuing to post things like this (and the Sears bungalow plans from the early 1900’s) is that my favorite kind of houses are warm and familiar, but that re-interpret through layout, materials or other, the familiar with a modern sensibility. For some people, the aggressively Modern, as practiced by Jacobson, is off-putting, just as for more true Modernists, the house here is blindly, sentimental. I would nudge both toward the middle.
This house, with true-divided lites, shutters and paladian windows does not, as presented reinterpret anything. It is, as you say almost deliberately anti-modern. When I look at, it subconsciously remove the “treacly” historical details and replace them. I see this house with higher ceilings, cleaner detailing, open plans, contiguous indoor/outdoor spaces…
Best,
Jamie
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