Barn Looking Pool House

Barn Looking Pool House

Barn Looking Pool House

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Architecture firm Bonetti/Kozerski Studio renovated a New Paltz, New York, barn into a three-bedroom summer residence for Los Angeles–based filmmaker Shawn Levy and his family. Birch, willow, and Norway maple trees surround the stucco house.

Architect Margaret McCurry of Tigerman McCurry designed this Lake Michigan getaway. “It’s a modern interpretation of the farm structures that populate this region of Michigan,” the architect explains. The exterior is clad in red-painted tongue-and-groove cedar siding and topped with a metal standing-seam roof.

At the Connecticut property, Montoya laid out the bath with X-motif cabinetry. The tub and sink fittings are by Waterworks.

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Pitched ceilings, rustic beams, and exposed wood are all hallmarks of a barn-style house. Today’s barn homes incorporate such traditional elements but also add modern touches, like a monochromatic white palette or sleek fixtures. And some otherwise contemporary spaces add country-inspired flair, such as repurposed barn doors, for a rustic-chic feel. We scoured the archives of Architectural Digest to find our favorite barn-style houses that provide an escape from the chaos of modern life. Explore 30 of these stylishly rustic houses, from an airy retreat by India Mahdavi in Connecticut to a modern take on the classic form by architect Mark Rios in Santa Monica, California. If you aren’t already living in the countryside, these rustic barn-style homes just might persuade you to pack up.

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“They are modernists who have ended up living in old structures,” interior designer S. Russell Groves says of a hedge-fund manager and his wife, who asked him to reimagine the interiors of a 19th-century barn that had been moved from Canada to Connecticut and subsequently converted into a 15-room house.

A living area occupies one end of the open main floor of the revamped Bucks County barn. The wing chair fabric is by Cowtan & Tout, and the stool is from Yale R. Burge Antiques.

Bonetti/Kozerski Studio designed the wood-paneled dining area’s light fixtures, 14-foot-long table, and leather-padded banquette; the aluminum chairs are from Design Within Reach.

A barn serves as the poolhouse at a Connecticut home decorated by India Mahdavi; the dining table and benches are by Piet Hein Eek.

A simple exterior of the metal pole barn home An open space porch for you to enjoy the nature around. Blake decided to build his very own metal home. on his own Measuring and planning the whole building process of the metal home.

Unfinished interior layout of the building Putting the intial touches Half-way through the building process of the metal pole home Getting ready for the paint Putting it all together! Look at that ceiling! It is truly an amazingly beautiful interior.

This spiral stairs is definitely a decor of its own. A flat screen TV is attached to the wall to maximize space. The main hallway that leads to the different parts of the house. comfortable bathroom with a lavatory What a comfortable looking bed with a huge fan on the ceiling.

en-suite bathroom Enjoy dinner time in this amazing living-dining room. have yourself this elegant looking fan

To maximize views of a nearby lake at Mount Brilliant Farm, Martin created an enclosed terrace with a glass roof that suffuses the space with sunlight; the interior design is by Mona Hajj.

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On his 128-acre upstate New York property, which was formerly a dairy farm, architect Dean Marchetto rehabilitated an existing barn (it now serves as a play space for his sons) and added a separate ten-room, 4,000-square-foot weekend house for the family.

At the Connecticut poolhouse, which was decorated by John Cottrell, a large ficus tree gives the great room a forestlike air; the stone planter is from La Maison Française Antiques. Landscape studies from Dennis & Leen are displayed on the far wall; the iron sconces are by Formations, and the upholstery fabrics are by Pindler & Pindler.

In the same home, triangular chairs by Rick Owens face the living room fireplace, which features a surround of chiseled limestone; the painting at right is by Richard Prince, and the carpet is by Woven Accents.

Designers Penny Drue Baird and Irwin Weiner teamed together to transform a 19th-century barn in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, into a 4,000-square-foot space for entertaining guests. Boards from the interior replaced crumbling ones on the exterior, and expansive windows were added. John Morgan Thomas was the landscape architect.

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When a friend tells you that he will build a house with zero construction background, you will probably shake your head while giving him a pat on the shoulder. Well guess what? It is actually unbelievably possible! Who would have thought that  a man without a construction experience can build an amazing metal pole barn house? Probably no one, except this one man from Louisiana named Blake .

For a Santa Monica, California, home renovation, architect Mark Rios pared the existing structure down to simple barn-inspired forms and clad the exterior in cedar, which he stained gray to complement the slate roof.

Vincent Herbert, CEO of Le Pain Quotidien, and his wife, Laurence Verbeke, enlisted architect Francis D’Haene of D’Apostrophe Design to renovate their weekend house in Remsenburg, New York. Much of its exterior was replaced with siding salvaged from a 200-year-old Canadian barn.

African beaded kings’ and queens’ armchairs flank the entrance to Schumacher’s bedroom. “The Beacon blankets and Native American rugs are from everywhere,” he recalls. “I’ve been collecting them from flea markets, swap meets, and the like since 1971.”

For his retreat in Carpinteria, California, film director Joel Schumacher wanted a rustic look with modern comforts. He called on architect Don Nulty, who created a new residence that incorporated reclaimed barn wood.

A field house in upstate New York was conceived, in a collaborative effort, by architect Paul F. Shurtleff and landscape architect Douglas Reed. The lawn, terraced by a stone wall, echoes the divisions of the building’s living and pool areas.

He decided to build his very own metal pole barn home on his own. Zero construction experience certainly did not stop Blake from erecting a beautiful metal home with an impressive interior. The metal home may look like a simple building from the outside with nothing extraordinary, but the interior design is the complete opposite and will definitely blow you away. It is carefully crafted and built with style.

At the Herbert-Verbeke residence, Dinesen wide-plank Douglas-fir floorboards complement the pristine architecture; the lamp is by BDDW.

Wood beams and paneling line the dining room of an old carriage house turned expansive main residence at Mount Brilliant Farm in Lexington, Kentucky. The architect was Elby S. Martin, and the interior designer was Mona Hajj.

Cost: around $80,000 Plan: owners do not share it publicly, feel free to contact them.

In the same home, the double-height formal dining area, also in a former barn, is furnished with chairs designed by Hans J. Wegner for Carl Hansen & Son and a custom-made table by India Mahdavi.

An 1895 barn in Wilton, Connecticut, was restored and expanded by architect David Ling for art collectors Rhonda Brown and Tom Grotta. Ling “reused the barn vernacular but with a modernist sensibility” for the addition.

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In the Brown-Grotta entrance hall are, from left, a tapestry by Mariette Rousseau-Vermette and works by Debra Sachs and Christine Joy.

Designed by architect Gil Schafer, a Connecticut poolhouse takes the shape of a sophisticated barn with stone walls and weathered plank shutters; the custom-made windows are by Reilly Windows & Doors. The landscape design is by Deborah Nevins.

For a renovated barn that serves as the Roxbury, Connecticut, retreat of a South American diplomat and his wife, AD100 designer Juan Montoya eschewed traditional white trim. “I had the trim of this one painted barn-red, because I didn’t want anything to detract from the cleanliness and purity of the composition,” he says.

In a Hamptons compound designed by Christoff:Finio Architecture, the living room occupies a former barn; the space is furnished with midcentury armchairs from Dienst & Dotter Antikviteter, a sectional sofa and ottoman by Zanotta, and vintage Navajo rugs.

In contrast with the surrounding wooded landscape, absolute symmetry rules in the white-walled, double-height living room, from the placement of the windows to the positioning of the furniture. The cocktail table is from Ligne Roset.

“There was a lot of texture already present here,” Groves says of the dining room at the renovated Connecticut barn. “So we chose a very simple table and chairs—wood themselves, in order to relate to the surroundings—and a customized chandelier.” A flagstone fireplace topped with wood cabinets anchors the space.

One of the 150-acre property’s outbuildings was restored and turned into the games barn.

Groves also laid out the landscaping around the pool. The architecture of the barn “relates to the landscape and the surrounding structures,” says the husband, but the interiors “make it a modern house with the charm, feeling, and materials of something that’s older.”

Barn-style doors lead to the guest bath in an Atlanta home by Suzanne Kasler, where RH mirrors flank a sconce from Circa Lighting.

Blake has amazingly maximized the available space of this metal pole barn home. It has the basic facilities every home should have such as bedrooms, kitchen, living room, dining room, bathrooms, and an open space porch! It has quite a lot of rooms for a 1,680 square feet property. What is even more amazing is the fact that Blake has built this home for considerable amount of budget.