Old barn becomes young architect’s budget, elegant home-studio

by Kirsten Dirksen on September 8, 2019

Alfredo Vanotti wanted to recover the old barn his grandfather had built 100 years ago in his village’s now-abandoned town center.

Working on a tight budget and mostly his, and his father’s, labor, he began to turn the former cow stable and hay loft into a modern classic home for himself and his daughter, and the garage into his home-studio.

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