Country Home Design

Country Home Design

Time tested ideas on how to plan and design an attractive, easy-to-build and easy-to-maintain home in the country.

Design Ideas:

Design for Your Climate	An Arbor Veranda	Your Architect
Southern Home Details	Attic Bedrooms	Country Style
Convert an Old Building	A Country Fireplace	Design Hints
Hints on House Plans	The Dining Room	Details
Design an Expandable Home	Easy Stairs	The Entry
The Value of a Simple Design	Welcome Guests	Exterior Details
Substitute Bay Window	Let Sunshine In	The Front Porch
The Advantages of a Steep Roof	A Gable Roof	A High Porch
Advantages of a Hillside Home	Don't Build Too Tall	A Dry House
Avoid North Entrances	Avoid North Entrances	Planning Ideas
Uncommon House Shapes	Build On the Square	Avoid Poor Plans
Do You Need a Parlor?	Use the Outdoors	Your Extra Room
What Shape Should a House Be?	A Small Kitchen	Old Houses
How to Choose a Home Style

Yesterday's House Plans: 1857 Country House Plan

Find inspiration and practical ideas in the photos and measured drawings of yesterday's homes from the Historic American Building Survey:

Saltbox Houses	Cape Cod Homes	Bungalows
Timber-Frame Homes	Log Cabins

Historic American Home Styles on the Old House Web Explore the design features of early country homes ranging from 17th century vernacular homes through popular early 20th century housing styles.

"All previous experience in architecture is the inherited property of America, and should be taken every advantage of. Each beautiful thought, form, and mode that is not unsuited to the climate and the people, ought to be studied, sifted, and tested, its principals elucidated, and itself improved on"

Calvert Vaux, Villas & Cottages, 1867