Collection by Diana Budds
Creative and Cozy Countryside Homes
Paul McCartney sang it best on Ram: "I look high, I look low // I'm lookin' everywhere I go // lookin' for a home in the heart of the country." In honor of the epic search for that idyllic rural abode, we've corralled 10 modern spaces that are sure to get you house hunting.
Adding 290 square feet to this already small (just 566 square feet) black A-frame in Brecht, Belgium, was all the local building ordinances allowed, but the architects at dmvA found that a single wing extended out to the side gave resident Rini van Beek all the storage and living space that she needs.
The kids, Archie, Linus, and Olive, stand in the kitchen, beneath the strand board–clad stairwell that leads to the bedrooms. Kerr and Ritchie initially envisaged rich materials for the interior, but changed their minds in favor of what they call a “cartoony” approach with cheaper, hard-wearing elements. “We didn’t want the space to feel too grown-up,” Kerr says.