Simply Elegant Home Designs
What is a Country Home or a Farmhouse Plan? Your first image of a Country Home might come from your childhood visits to your grandparents farm. A white farmhouse with a gable roof line and shed porches. White clapboard siding with a dramatic red shingle roof. A white picket fence and Apple pie. On the other hand your idea of a Country House Plan as a modest cabin in the woods.
For us at Simply Elegant Home Designs we think you could sum up the Country House Style or a Farmhouse as a home that is simple and natural. A house plan that feels comfortable in it’s surroundings. We think that a country home design or farmhouse can be modern or traditional, but above all it must be functional. Form should follow function, and ornament should be restrained. The Country House Plan or farmhouse is about a style of life that is simpler, and so the architecture should be reflective of that.
At Simply Elegant Home Designs many of our designs might qualify as a Country House Plan. All of our home designs have a degree of simplicity and feel comfortable in natural surroundings. And of course all of our Country Home and Farmhouse designs are outfitted with our well laid out and functional floor plans. All the benefits of today’s modern floor plans wrapped up in a Country exterior.
If you are looking for a Country House Plan or a Farmhouse we might suggest you start by checking out the selections shown below. If you don’t see exactly what you are looking for then contact us. We are sure we can find a way to help you find the Home Design of your dreams.
If you would like to learn more about Country Home Design, Farmhouse Plans or just plain simple elegant home design we recommend the following books:
The Farmhouse, New Inspiration for the Classic American Home; by Jean Rehkamp Larson
The Distinctive Home, A vision of Timeless Design; by Jeremiah Eck
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