Mixing modern with rural design just isn't complete until you add one of these kitchen furnishings into your home.

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One of my favorite current design trends is the idea of incorporating rural design elements into modern homes. Case in point: the modern barn?
Hupomone Ranch designed Turnbull Griffin Haesloop Architects, photo by David Wakely
Hebron Home designed by Benjamin Oliver AD, photo by Dan Dealy
Pierson’s Way home designed by Bates Masi + Architects, photo by Michael Moran
Not convinced that a modern barn house is a thing" We’ve written about them a lot and even created this round up. If you need an outside perspective, this hashtag has close to 2,000 submissions. If you?re on Redfin now in search of a patch of land to build your own modern barn house, well… join the club. A pastoral home on a picturesque hill is hard to come by though, so start with the interiors of your own instead. Fortunately with today?s market, it?s easy to mix modern with traditional design in a variety of price points. Architecture aside, we?re seeing small ways to bring these design elements into a modern home. While filling a kitchen with state-of-the-art technology and appliances can be exciting, there?s something to be said about deferring to simple furnishings that have withstood the test of time. Aft...