Award Winning Barn Home

This property offers a strong connection to nature, an open floor plan, a dramatic central staircase, and a spareness verging on monastic. To lend patina to the 1980's faux barn, D'Haene replaced sections of ordinary cedar siding with planks salvaged from an actual barn 200 years old. The original cedar remains on a small structure that connects to the expanded garage, which now houses a combined yoga studio and media room in front and two parking spaces in back. This division of functions is reflected on the facade: half cedar and half concrete patterned with horizontal formwork that simultaneously reflects and contrasts with the barn's silvery verticals.