In Westhampton Beach, Arianne de Kwiatkowski turned a centuries-old barn into a family-friendly crash pad. The barn dates back to the 1800s, when it was part of a working farm and, later, a gentlemen’s club. Tour the creative abode here.
Journalist/producer Terre Blair lives in a coastal barn home built in 2005 by the late visionary designer Barbara Garfield. “It took my breath away—I knew it was going to be my house,” Blair says of her first time walking into the historic home. The structure is an 1800s reclaimed barn from New Hampshire. Tour the rest of the Rowayton property here.
One Litchfield County couple hired interior designer Philip Gorrivan to help achieve their vision. “The barn was pretty dilapidated,” says Gorrivan. “It was either tear it down or do a complete restoration.” The 1850s barn boasts quite a traditional exterior, with red shiplap siding and a cupola-topped roofline—while the interiors are anything but.
Fairfield-based artist Caroline Gantz worked with Rose Adams to restore a barn on her property. The homeowner uses her own canvases to brighten the interiors. See more of the space here.
This barn-inspired pool house sits on a 21-acre horse farm in Kent, Connecticut. The property owners hired architect Steven Kalur of F+H Architectural Design & Associates and his interior designer wife, Claudia Kalur of CFK Interiors. They decided to build a barn from scratch, inspired by a structure that was there before. “We wanted people who drove into the property to see exactly what they saw before,” Claudia says. Click here to step inside.
The existing barn on this Darien property was relocated, wrapped in antique wood and transformed by Kevin Cady of East Coast Barn Builders into a party space and garage.
