Modern cottage is being heralded as the next great design style. (If you need an explainer on what modern farmhouse *really* is, read this design style guide first and then come back here.

Call it the vernacular of 2020. The ubiquitousness of the modern farmhouse is in part due to trend-hungry builders, says architect Jim Rill of his namesake Bethesda, Maryland, firm.

On a stately Delaware County lane, past the Tuscan, Spanish mission and French chateau replicas, lies Chris and Carole Meyers’ farmhouse. This is no 100-year-old relic but a fully modern take on ...

advertisement 06-26-2009 Modern Farmhouse Design, Done Right A Norwegian farmhouse manages to be utterly modern and totally familiar at the same time.