Modern Farmhouse
A working farmstead for a family of seven, on a five acre citrus parcel.
A working farmstead for a family of seven, on a five acre citrus parcel.
The Bellamy family owns a five acre parcel of lemon trees in Somis. They needed a primary residence for seven (two parents, five children), a covered outdoor kitchen, a home office for the parent who runs a veterinary practice, and a detached studio for the two oldest children entering high school. The brief was a working farmhouse that would look comfortable in an agricultural landscape but meet the interior expectations of a modern family of that size.
We drew a cruciform main house with four wings meeting at a double height central hall. The east wing holds the parents suite and office. The north wing holds the five bedrooms. The west wing holds the kitchen, dining, and family room. The south wing opens to a covered outdoor kitchen and dining pavilion. A detached studio sits forty feet away connected by a covered breezeway. Exterior cladding is white board and batten with black steel windows and a standing seam metal roof. The aesthetic is farmhouse but the plan is thoroughly contemporary.
The Bellamys moved in Easter weekend 2025 after a sixteen month construction schedule that ran exactly on time. The outdoor kitchen has become the default dining room from April through October. Title 24 performance is 16 percent below baseline. The detached studio has already hosted one high school science fair team and one veterinary continuing education seminar. The project was photographed for Country Living magazine and Sunset.
We have seven people and three schedules and this house absorbs all of it. David drew a plan that works the way we actually live.Dr. Anne Bellamy · Homeowner
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