Homebuilders are turning the siding industry on its head. Contractors and architects are breathing new life into vertical board-and-batten siding. Long a staple on old farmhouses and some niche styles ...

Drive through any American suburb and odds are you’ll spot a modern farmhouse in its natural habitat. The style is hard to miss: white board and batten vertical siding, large black frame windows and ...

New homes borrow classic farmhouse characteristics of shiplap siding and hardwood floors, and the invented idea of interior barn doors. Old farmhouses didn't have towering fireplaces in giant great ...

Chauncey grew up on a farm in rural northern California. At 18 he ran away and saw the world with a backpack and a credit card, discovering that the true value of any point or mile is the experience ...