Barn Turned Into Home
A barn converted to a house isn t only a perfect way to use abandoned architecture once the animals have long moved away it also allows a perfect blank canvas.
Barn turned into home. It was redesigned using simple materials and colors and some of the original features were reused as well. Originally built in the dutch style the design it s modelled after is one of the oldest and rarest. The home now a barn includes a workroom that also serves as a kitchen an apartment a bunk room and a bathroom. Barn turned into a family home by josephine interior design.
At first we thought we could use the barn for my husband s vintage cars she recalls but as we discovered the barn aisle wasn t wide enough for a 1957 chevy to turn into a stall for a while they used the barn to store other stuff. Increasingly architects are being asked to convert barns into homes with some homeowners even purchasing historic barn frames and relocating them to their land for a rustic yet contemporary feel. Re purposing buildings is a popular american past time as evidenced by the proliferation of big box lumber stores across the country. When you remove the cattle equipment and grain a barn becomes the perfect empty shell in which to create a family home.
The owners raised the roof turned the corrals into porches and converted the stalls to living spaces. This 1930s barn in durham connecticut has been converted into a three bedroom family home.