Building a "Modern Farm House"...

[CouttsClient]

Originally Posted by culverwood

We have a similar property. Do not skimp on the landscaping, the house can take you over and the setting not get enough money and time spent on it.
Absolutely. I would pull back on the house if it meant I couldn't fully realize the potential of the landscape

 

[Cary Grant]

Originally Posted by RSS

The house below is a movie set ... so could have been done better. But I rather like the design approach.

You might find these interesting then...

http://www.jacksonmeadow.com/

Not a lot of great pictures and all together, the development looks a little David Koresh but the individual houses are all very interesting, inspired by 19th century scandinavian farm settlements in the upper midwest.

http://www.google.com/search?q=Jacks...w&ved=0CCUQsAQ

 

[RSS]

Originally Posted by Cary Grant

You might find these interesting then...

http://www.jacksonmeadow.com/

Not a lot of great pictures and all together, the development looks a little David Koresh but the individual houses are all very interesting, inspired by 19th century scandinavian farm settlements in the upper midwest.

http://www.google.com/search?q=Jacks...w&ved=0CCUQsAQ

Thanks Cary ... and indeed much better done. I'm thinking of a cross between the two ... with a plan that is more dependent upon the centerpoint of the driveway circle.

 

[summej2]

Originally Posted by CouttsClient

That is a neat little house. Didn't Bohlin do the Gates home?

Yes. His houses have gotten bigger, but he's still doing some similar work.

 

[summej2]

Originally Posted by js4design

There is a firm based in Texas that does work in the SE that I think would work for what you have described.

Lake|Flato

Ah, I forgot them. Ted Flato does what he calls "cracker modern." They are great homes, if a bit more conventional in how they are finished. Before we aborted our FL move, a Ted Flato house was topping our list.

 

[Cary Grant]

Originally Posted by RSS

Thanks Cary ... and indeed much better done. I'm thinking of a cross between the two ... with a plan that is more dependent upon the centerpoint of the driveway circle.

I get that. Jackson Meadow is built around communal front yards... all the driveways are very short and all the house face "backwards" so that the "neighborhood street" is the single sidewalk between the front porches of the house.

I've been through a couple of them- very open and light, but with your neighbors' homes so close, zero privacy. Now, give me one in the middle of 40 acres.

 

[NorCal]

Is that Sea Ranch?

 

[RSS]

Originally Posted by NorCal

Is that Sea Ranch?
Sure looks like it to me.

 

[SGo964]

Stephen Atkinson has done some nice rural work, that integrates very well with the surroundings. I had some preliminary discussions several years ago on building something, but we ended up finding a house that was already built.
I liked his Zachary house, in Zachary, LA

 

[CouttsClient]

Originally Posted by SGo964

Stephen Atkinson has done some nice rural work, that integrates very well with the surroundings. I had some preliminary discussions several years ago on building something, but we ended up finding a house that was already built.
I liked his Zachary house, in Zachary, LA
Very nice. Thanks