Inspired by Philip and Angela Traill's stunning barn conversion in Surrey, we reveal the trade secrets for creating your own piece of rural barn bliss.
Barn conversions offer a great opportunity to live large in the countryside, with all that fabulous space - open plan living at its finest. But there's a problem. We're running out of barns to convert. So what do you do?
Meet the neo-barn - the new style of home that takes its inspiration from traditional barns. This house in Sussex is the first one of its kind to be built in the UK. It has the look and feel of a barn but the high spec, technology and layout of an up-to-the-minute designer home.
The key to getting your neo-barn right is that you follow a couple of basic ideas. It needs to draw reference from its agricultural cousins. That said, a neo-barn also has to move the traditions forward, be that in terms of the design or the materials you choose to use.
With a neo-barn you get the best of both worlds. All the simple beauty and natural charm of a building of this style without the large scale structural problems of converting an original. A neo-barn allows you to design the living space to suit you.
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