{"id":30630,"date":"2023-01-16T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-16T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.essentialhome.eu\/inspirations\/?p=30630"},"modified":"2023-01-16T10:01:27","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T10:01:27","slug":"step-inside-8-refined-farmhouses-that-are-undeniably-modern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.essentialhome.eu\/inspirations\/interiors-decor\/step-inside-8-refined-farmhouses-that-are-undeniably-modern\/","title":{"rendered":"Step Inside 8 Refined Farmhouses That Are Undeniably Modern"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

With the bucolic charm of rural life and the stylish comforts of 21st century living, the modern farmhouse <\/a><\/strong>really does offer the best of both worlds. Pitched roofs,\u00a0exposed beams, and the enthusiastic use of natural materials may be the charming hallmarks of a classic farmhouse, but these interiors truly sing when combined with contemporary elements<\/a><\/em><\/strong>. Let\u2019s take a look at 8 refined farmhouses<\/span><\/em><\/strong> that are undeniably modern and perfect inspiration for any design lover!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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SEE ALSO: <\/strong>A 1930s Porto Town House Gets an Eclectic Refresh<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Indoor Coziness, Outdoor Splendor in Upstate New York<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Beverly Kerzner first met architect and designer Niels Schoenfelder over 20 years ago. At the time, he was 24 years old and had already built a stunning hotel in Pondicherry, India, that caught her eye. After tracking him down and initiating a fruitful conversation, she tapped him to build her dream home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fast-forward to 2017, she purchased a vast plot of scenic land in the\u00a0Hudson Valley. The sprawling hill-scape contained two stunning barn structures, a river that runs through the property, a cabin, and a residential home<\/a><\/strong>. Just like in the far-off regions near Pondicherry, this was a landscape that had to be appreciated, worked with, and understood. After four years of designing the property, the resulting home is a distillation of the land they had gotten to know inside and out\u2014a modern barn-inspired structure meticulously crafted<\/a><\/em><\/strong> to fit seamlessly into its surroundings. \u2014Sophia Herring, AD<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Fresh Spin on a French Farmhouse\u00a0<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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In Luberon, a mountainous region in central Provence, France, a centuries-old house sits on a plot of land that sprawls nearly 136 acres. Farm animals roam the grounds, newly planted with local species like pollarded plane trees, wild grasses, and olive trees. (The residents make their own olive oil.) A decade ago, local legend\u00a0Alexandre Lafourcade\u00a0renovated the farmhouse, bringing it into the 21st century. But after the homeowners were stuck there during the first of several pandemic lockdowns, they wanted to give the serene interiors a bit of a revamp. When they called on the Paris-based Peruvian interior designer\u00a0Diego Delgado-Elias, he remembers, \u201cThe house was very interesting, but it didn\u2019t have much of a soul. It was missing details and materials.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n \"refined<\/a>\n\n\n\n

To create a spirit for the stunning country house, Delgado-Elias started there, following his clients\u2019 single bit of advice: \u201cMore material<\/a><\/em><\/strong>; less color.\u201d Walls were given a rough plaster finish, and one was covered in woven raffia. All the standard 10-centimeter baseboards were removed and replaced. \u201cLittle things like that gave the interior<\/a><\/strong> a bit more grandeur,\u201d explains the designer, who realized it all in an elevated and earthy palette heavy on hues like ivory and praline. \u2014Hannah Martin, AD<\/p>\n\n\n\n

100 Acres of Hodgepodge Charm<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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When a Washington, D.C.\u2013based tutor stumbled upon a 100-acre property outside of the city at the height of the pandemic, it was love at first sight. The historic compound had an original farm-fresh feel that she wanted to update with charming furnishings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Three years earlier, the client in question had completed a gut renovation of her Arts and Crafts home with\u00a0Cameron Ruppert Interiors. She turned to the decorator<\/a><\/strong> again for help replicating that same aesthetic in this project\u2014which Ruppert refers to as \u201cbold maximalism.\u201d Architect Suzie O\u2019Brien and\u00a0Jeffco Development\u00a0were also integral to the process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cShe didn\u2019t want it to feel like a brand-new house that she\u2019d gutted, but rather [one that was] layered on top of the original,\u201d Ruppert explains of her client. \u201cI knew from working together before that she loves dimension and tons of patterns and color<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, but she wants it to last. It had to be timeless.\u201d \u2014Allison Duncan, AD<\/p>\n\n\n\n

EDITOR\u2019S CHOICE<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Light, Bright, and Airy in Connecticut<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Like so many modern relationships, the\u00a0New Canaan, Connecticut\u2013based architecture firm\u00a0Brooks & Falotico\u00a0and their soon-to-be client Tyler Mitchell met through social media. Mitchell\u2014a partner and co-owner of\u00a0Mitchells, his family\u2019s generations-old retail business\u2014and his wife stumbled upon an \u00fcber-contemporary project by Brooks & Falotico on Pinterest. Only a few weeks later, Mitchell invited managing partner Vince Falotico and one of the firm\u2019s partners, Chuck Willette, to walk their eight-acre former dairy farm in Greenwich, Connecticut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n \"refined<\/a>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMy wife and I found the 18th-century property and thought, Why don\u2019t we restore the existing structures and then build something similar to the [Brooks & Falotico\u2013designed] house we saw and loved on Pinterest?\u201d Mitchell explains of his modern farmhouse. \u201cThe idea was to connect the seams between the farm\u2019s very old, original structures and the new, contemporary ones the architects would add.\u201d \u2014Jessica Cherner, AD<\/p>\n\n\n\n

18th-Century Angles Meet Modern Touches in New York State<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Renovating a house\u2014especially one three centuries old\u2014comes with the careful question of how new, exactly, to push. When Manhattanites Jessica and Mark Kleinknecht bought a 1725 Colonial in upstate New York, they looked to\u00a0AD100 architect Elizabeth Roberts\u00a0for the answer. Since preservation is the hallmark of her Brooklyn firm, which has worked with clients such as\u00a0Ulla Johnson\u00a0and\u00a0Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard, the couple requested her signature urban brownstone treatment with one key twist\u2014its country setting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe wanted to open up the walls and let in light, and I thought, Isn\u2019t that the challenge of a brownstone too? I bet she can do it with a farmhouse!\u201d Jessica says. \u201cElizabeth has a really great way of preserving the history of a house, yet modernizing it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n \"refined<\/a>\n\n\n\n

The property and barn, set on nine acres of wetlands, offered everything their apartment in Tribeca did not. It had nature with lush views, just over an hour away from NYC. It had fields and creeks in which their four kids could run wild, get muddy, and catch frogs. It had six wood-burning fireplaces to curl up next to. It had a covered porch for dinners outside. But it needed new mechanics, chimneys, and windows. Most of all, it desperately needed someone to piece together the puzzle of choppy rooms with unusably low ceilings, which evolved from an initial one-room cabin. \u2014Jennifer Blaise Kramer, AD<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An Inky Twist on a Classic Farm Compound<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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In his 1963 treatise\u00a0Interaction of Color<\/em>, Josef Albers observed that the most fascinating thing about colors is witnessing them shift in situ. \u201cColors present themselves in continuous flux,\u201d he explained. \u201c[They\u2019re] constantly related to changing neighbors and changing conditions.\u201d Meditating on this phenomenon, Bradford Shellhammer, vice president of buyer experience at\u00a0eBay, will tell you that color also has a way of changing those who slow down enough to witness it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Albers\u2019s theory is brilliantly manifested at a 13-acre Stuyvesant, New York, countryside retreat, which Shellhammer and husband Georgi Balinov own. In a few short months, they transformed the 1840s three-bedroom farmhouse<\/a><\/strong> and the property\u2019s eight (yes, you read that right) additional structures into a modernist Eden, with all the amenities for hosting their family and friends just two and a half hours from Manhattan. As a charming signpost indicates, there\u2019s a swimming pool, sauna, network of bars and lounges, movie theater, and vegetable patch, not to mention an abundance of quiet spaces. The estate\u2019s name, Rode Barns, comes from the three showstopping stables, painted in vivid hues inspired by Albers\u2019s 1943 oil painting,\u00a0Related (red)<\/em>. \u2014Anne Quito, AD<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pattern Play in East Hampton<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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In one family\u2019s Long Island compound, two hallmarks of Hamptons architecture stand side by side: a 19th-century Shingle Style saltbox festooned with hydrangeas (they call it the farmhouse) and its super-modern foil heavy on the glass by New York City firm Architecture Outfit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEast Hampton is our escape; it\u2019s where we go to breathe and relax,\u201d explains the client, who lives here with her husband and two sons. They acquired the tumbledown farmhouse in 2018 and knew they wanted a more contemporary counterpoint. \u201cWe needed to find an interior designer<\/a><\/strong> who could tie together these two very different structures.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n \"refined<\/a>\n\n\n\n

The client responded to New York City\u2013based decorator Neal Beckstedt\u2019s knack for what she calls \u201claid-back luxury,\u201d a look he honed for a decade working for architect Russell Groves before launching his own business in 2010. For this project,<\/a><\/strong> Beckstedt recalls, \u201cThe client wanted something that was understated and livable\u2014not stuffy. A new approach to the Hamptons.\u201d And most importantly, \u201cthey were not afraid of color.\u201d \u2014Hannah Martin, AD<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Austin Furnishings That Put Family First<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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In 2010, when Jared and Genevieve Padalecki first bought a place in Austin, it seemed like they were the only actors in town\u2014\u201cother than\u00a0McConaughey\u00a0and Dennis Quaid,\u201d as the former\u00a0Gilmore Girls<\/em>\u00a0heartthrob puts it. The couple, who met on the set of the cult-favorite CW show\u00a0Supernatural,<\/em>\u00a0and who now star on the network\u2019s reboot of\u00a0Walker, Texas Ranger,<\/em>\u00a0gravitated toward Texas because of its \u201cslower pace.\u201d Soon, they decided to give up their Los Angeles residence altogether and live full time in the state where their current show shoots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Padaleckis purchased their current Austin home in 2012, and have spent the years since slowly creating their ideal modern farmhouse. That\u2019s where their three children (Thomas, 9, Shepherd, 7, and Odette, 4), as well as numerous dogs, chickens, mini horses, and even bees, live together in harmony. The house\u2014which began as a model \u201cTexas Tuscan,\u201d according to their designer,\u00a0Virginia Davidson\u2014underwent a full gut renovation in order to become a compound inspired by the historic German homesteads of nearby Fredericksburg. \u201cFor the walls and woodwork, we pulled from these traditional German milk paints,\u201d Davidson says. \u201cThey are in these very sort of neutral but tonal palettes<\/a><\/strong>: wonderful chalky whites, beautiful grays and blues, and browns.\u201d Those hues provide an excellent foundation for layering the textures required to create an intimate, yet cozy home. The result is a bit masculine, a bit rustic, and refreshingly unlike what you usually see on Instagram. \u2014Rachel Wallace, AD<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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READ MORE:<\/strong> 10 Mid-Century Dining Chairs That Will Bring The Glamour Inside<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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