Fultonville Barn and Home
Fultonville TX USA – Heritage Barns Two 19th century English framed barns have been resurrected as this home and party-come-guest barn. The home has been finished to a more conventional standard than the guest barn, having plasterboard finished walls and polished timber floors. The barn is much more rustic with it’s polished concrete flooring and […]
Montana Mountain Retreat
Montana, USA – Heritage Barns Heritage Restorations has built a business specializing in the sourcing, relocating and restoration of old barns. As you can see in this album, the results can be quite spectacular. These old barns often have the best quality timber frames made from old growth trees. With beautiful restorations like this, we should […]
A French Resurrection
London, England – Blee Halligan Architects Photography: Sarah Blee In 1981, Londoners Anthony and Gillian Blee purchased the ultimate fixer-upper. The property in southwestern France was idyllic, but its old mill, built in 1822, and three flanking outbuildings had fallen into terrible disrepair. “We really wanted to capture the ruinous quality of this old building […]
A Barn Conversion and Extension
Lesponne, France – PPA Built area: 70 sqm Year built: 2010 Photography: Philippe Ruault A vacation home that started as a barn conversion in a verdant valley of the Adour de Lesponne river, in the mountainous region of the Hautes-Pyrénées. But as lovely as it was, it lacked light and […]
From grain silo to a comfortable home…
Phoenix, Arizona – Christoph Kaiser LLC Year Built: 2014 Total Livable Space: 340 sq. ft. Photography: Mark Lipczynski While driving through Kansas, architect Christoph Kaiser noticed a dismantled, 1955 era grain silo. A short conversation with the farmer owner and the bits and pieces has a new owner, and soon, a […]
Allies Farmhouse – from WWII military base to a sustainable, family home
Essex, UK – Timber Design Land area: 30 acres (12.15 hectares) Year renovated: 2012 Photography: Simon Maxwell and Sam Morgan Moore This multi-award winning home is built on farmland that was used as a base by the USAF 381st Bombardment Group during World War II. Using a timber frame with a modern twist, the home […]
Dunluce – 900 years in the planning
Near Brisbane QLD Australia – Owner designed and built Land area: 32 Hectares (80 acres) Built area: 340 m2 (3,672 sq. ft.) plus veranda area of 237 m2 (2,560 sq. ft.) Year Completed: 1997 In Celtic Dunluce means ‘Castle On A Hill’. The home’s design is loosely based on a 12th century […]
RR’s Cabin
Somewhere in America Built: 1830 (approximately) Restored: 2003 – 2013 We don’t know much about RR other than that he is a retired mathematician. Some 10 years ago he stumbled across the ruins of an original settler’s cabin. Although most of the cabin was unsalvageable, enough remained to inspire RR to […]
Gavarres Weekender
Girona Spain – Zest Architecture Year built: 2013 Built area: 440 m2 (4,750 sq. ft.) Lot size: 25 hectares (62 acres) Photography: Jesus Granada An old stone ruin, 25 hectares of oak forest and distant views to the Mediterranean. Perfect… except that local building regulations demanded that the building had to be rebuilt […]
Cowshed House
Sydney Australia – Carter Williamson Architects Year built: 2012 Photography: Brett Boardman By old world standards, Sydney is a young city. The suburb of Glebe was developed in the mid-19th century. It’s an area of mostly small lots, terrace and semi-detached homes interspersed with the occasional mansion. Somewhere in the midst […]