I have finally settled in the English countryside ... began designing the house with our architect, the brief soon became the not-very-imaginative “fake old Cotswold farmhouse.” ...

Many of us dream of retiring to southern France — or at the very least, spending a relaxing week in the beautiful French countryside ... an 18th-century farmhouse in the Périgord region ...

The Nagys gutted the farmhouse and rebuilt it with ... I don't have any romantic ideals left about the countryside and renovating an old house in the country — I'm a lot more pragmatic about ...