My husband is from Florence. And he has a 15th-century barn that is completely rustic and very 'Green Acres'-like.
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I always sort of swooned at the sight of the classic barn structures in central and northern Minnesota, where everything seemed rustic and weathered and made to age gracefully.
Until the end of elementary school, I lived in a suburban area, so the type of village I used to live in is borderline between village and the city, so I'm familiar with the rustic environment.
I love antique architecture, so if I have any indulgences, I have owned and renovated and reconstructed a lot of old houses.
Americans who visit Tuscany or Umbria love the landscape: the silvery olive groves, the fields of sunflowers, the vineyards, the stone houses and barns.
I live on this nice three acres in Hollywood.
I really wanted a wonderful, traditional home for my kid.
I've built two wooden houses near Vals. I built them for my wife. Those were private projects.
I came to the plain fields of Ohio with pictures painted by Hollywood movies and the works of Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller. None of them had much to say, if at all, about Dayton, Ohio.
I want to get a farm where I am going to live for the rest of my life. I like the idea of a secluded place.
The firmest house in my fiction, probably, is the little thick-walled sandstone farmhouse of 'The Centaur' and 'Of the Farm'; I had lived in that house, and can visualize every floorboard and bit of worn molding.
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