Southern Living Farmhouse Style

The editors of Southern Living Magazine presents House Plans.

Get ready to build your dream home with this collection of Southern Living house plans—designed by the South's top architects and builders. You'll find more than 50 of our best-selling plans, complete with renderings, color photographs, floor plans, and more. We'll also share ideas and advice from Southern interior designers for decorating your new home, including favorite paint colors, kitchen and bath design ideas, and tips for outdoor living spaces.

Find inspiration and ideas for living a simple life that's based on classic Southern style. Learn to arrange flowers grown in your own garden; decorate with vintage items; bake traditional Southern recipes from scratch, including cornbread and pies; cook with fresh vegetables and herbs; and more! There's no better time to slow down, breathe fresh air, and make memories that will last.

Add rustic country charm and make home your favorite place to be. This collection of classic and modern farmhouses inspire easy and comfortable living. Farmhouse style is about cultivating connection, embracing the simple life, and bringing a kick-up-your-feet, linger-a-little-longer feeling to your home. Step inside 20 beautifully-designed homes and discover how to create the cozy and practical country vibe. An intimate look inside these homes reveals how designers blend elements of old and new and add a touch of distinctive character to every room. You’ll tour a renovated New York farmhouse that pairs classic architecture with a fresh color palette for a hip yet historic look and discover how designer Lauren Leiss artfully refreshes a Virginia Colonial-style home with reclaimed floors and exposed beams. Plus, peek inside a ranch-style Texas home built from scratch which displays old-time charm inside and out. (Think: tons of textured cozy lived-in rooms featuring aged furniture and collections of time-worn books and oiled paintings.) Whether you are looking to upgrade your kitchen with an apron-front sink, add shiplap to your walls, or introduce flair to your living space with flea market finds, this expansive collection of farmhouses will inspire homeowners who plan to renovate or decorate a new home or make the perfect gift for anyone who dreams of a farmhouse of their own.

For the first time in book form, this carefully chosen compilation brings together the last 20 years of Southern Living magazines acclaimed house plans. Featuring full-color tours of finished homes, this book highlights more than 300 plans drawn by the nations leading designers and architects.

Discover design inspiration as a photographer and blogger details the story of her renovation of a 1940s cottage in the California countryside. A little, abandoned vacation house that could, set in the center of rolling fields and trees becomes the cottage home of her dreams. A French country–style cottage filled with original elements and an exquisite mix of rustic and refined. The years of renovation allowed Courtney to create a lifestyle that is fueled by inspiration and beauty, a touch of whimsy, and an abundance of everyday elegance. The journey has been shared on her popular blog French Country Cottage, and now, through the publication of her first book, her readers will experience a reveal of more of her home and property and the inspirations behind her beloved style. Courtney's inspiring photography reveals every nuance of her style and home including a muted color palette, old brassy door knobs, chippy paint, antiques, her greenhouse and garden, and an abundance of entertaining and holiday decorating style. Blurring the lines between indoor and outdoor and embracing well-worn as well loved, French Country Cottage is a style that celebrates simplicity, indulges in romance, cherishes pieces with history and believes a chandelier and fresh flowers belong in every room.

The husband and wife design team takes readers on a guided tour of their elegant farm residence in Ojai, CA—a home full of Patina Style inspiration. Brooke and Steve Gianetti offer an intimate look at their life on Patina Farm, the home they designed with an interplay of rustic and modern European charm. Beyond the gorgeously appointed farmhouse, the Giannettis readers through the sheds, outbuildings and gardens where they entertain and enjoy their miniature goats, sheep and donkeys, the chickens and ducks, and dogs. The entire residence is brimming with inspiration for a beautiful life in the popular Patina Style. “We decided to write this book to share why we decided to create this life and what we have learned along the way. We share how we decided where to live, how to design and lay out our property and how to think about the individual spaces. One of the main nuggets of wisdom that we have learned is that there is not only one way to live this life. The idea of this book is to give you some options.”

Select from more than 350 1-story home plans from top architects and designers. Complete construction blueprints/CAD files can be ordered for every house shown.