Heritage Restorations

Ya know when you come across a new product or company and you fall fast and you fall hard?  That's how it has been for me and Heritage Restorations.  My sister sent me that link to this company and within five minutes we were on the phone ooohing and ahhing. 

This is the description from the site:

"At Heritage Restorations, we locate, dismantle, restore, and re-erect 18th and 19th century timber frame barns, hand-hewn log cabins, gristmills, and other historic buildings. These time-tested, hand-crafted structures are then finished with modern, innovative, energy-efficient designs and materials. The completed structures make beautiful and unique homes, guest houses, commercial spaces and even.....barns!"

Totally fantastic. 

Check out these before and afters:

Yeah, I know, right?

And this one.

I want to go to there.

You can find more here.

metal roofs

metal roofs: I went from not being so sure about metal roofs a few years back to really starting to dig them. My in-laws built this beautiful barn in New Mexico and they put a copper colored roof on it. It's fantastic. When people all over that town meet us they say "Oh! You're the folks in the copper-top." We're basically famous.

Metal roofs range from sheets of corrugated galvanized metal to a true cooper roof. I am focusing here on the corrugated sheet metal. I love that this material is inexpensive, long lasting, rugged and simple to install. It definitely has a specific look that would not work with a lot of projects but somehow fits into my ideal of simple, classic, modern and organic. And it's perfect for a barn. And there are so many colors to choose from that any structure can be unique to your personality. Like I said, it's really grown on me.

we're gonna need a barn

My aesthetic lies somewhere in the realm of simple/classic/modern /organic. Does anyone know what I'm talking about? Most of the design blogs that I have visited, and there have been many, lend themselves heavily to one of these categories. There must be more people out there besides me that just like a little bit of each of these, too much and it is no longer appealing. I am carving out a niche for any others out there that are saying 'amen' right now. The 4 of us can have a nice time here visiting.

But I digress.

When I think wide open space, I think farmhouse.  There are a lot that I have seen that have a certain appeal. Some lie in each of the categories listed above and some exist in a perfect blended state. I'd love to see what you have found. Here's what I've got:

{all images but last first seen at Farmhouse Modern and are from Walker|Warner, Jackson Meadow, Fornesto Despues, Backen Gillam, CCY Architects, Martha Stewart}