"Our Way Home: Reimagining an American Farmhouse" book

"Our Way Home: Reimagining an American Farmhouse" by Heide Hendricks and Rafe Churchill the glorious Connecticut property of Heide Hendricks and Rafe Churchill (of the architecture and interior design firm Hendricks Churchill) illustrates how a late nineteenth-century farmhouse can be adapted for stylish and comfortable twenty-first-century living. Rafe and Heide discovered their true home in a late 1800s New England farmhouse after a decade of living in Brooklyn, New York the historic property, Ellsworth, is a showplace for their shared aesthetic and sensibility of designing for real life, and not for formality at the core is a house of pared-down traditionalism with references to Shaker tranquility, Arts & Crafts practicality, and bohemian chic, whimsical wallcoverings, striking colors, a mix of contemporary furniture and antiques, exciting works of art, and comfort abound—turning a workaday house from the nineteenth century into a creative laboratory of the twenty-first