Your new home might be a $200,000 condominium in Nolensville or a $1 million custom home in Williamson County, but there’s good chance it will look like one of the historic farmhouses dotting the Middle Tennessee countryside.

Modern farmhouse design has become one of the most popular styles of new homes in the Nashville area. Owners are even transforming the interiors of existing homes by adding sliding barn doors and other rustic elements.

“Ninety percent of the houses we build are farmhouse style,” said Daryl Walny, vice president of custom home building company Carbine & Associates.

The company is active in the Williamson County neighborhoods of Nature’s Landing, Water Leaf, Southern Preserve and others, where home prices can top $1 million.

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If that’s more than you have to spend, consider one of Regent Homes’ stacked-flat condos in the new Carothers Farms neighborhood in Nolensville.

Prices start in the mid-$200,000s for residences with 1,200 square feet of space and floor plans designed for roommates. Regent released six for sale in October.

The condo buildings are designed to resemble a farmhouse, with wrapped and center porches. They fit in with the overall design of the neighborhood, which is located off I-24 at the Old Hickory Boulevard exit. Nashville’s Cane Ridge Park is next door. Regent is also building carriage, cottage and estate homes in Carothers Farms.

Three large farm silos and a rustic-looking event barn are at the neighborhood’s entrance.

“With its three distinctive farm silos and our new community event pavilion at the entrance and traditional architecture, Carothers Farms looks like a small Southern town, but it has all the conveniences of a modern, urban neighborhood,” said David McGowan, president of Regent Homes.

Regent recently unveiled a new farmhouse design model home in Carothers Farms that “would look at home in the countryside in the late 1800s,” said Katharine Romstad, the company’s sales agent in the neighborhood.

Interior designer Sara Affonso transformed the interior of her home in Gallatin’s Fairvue Plantation into farmhouse style. The home, built in 2005 before the farmhouse trend took hold, has a traditional suburban brick exterior.

But inside, Affonso added a barnwood sliding door leading to the master suite. A mantel and the ceiling are now done with barnwood. She put in 6-foot-high wainscoting and a farmhouse sink.

“I call my house timeless elegance meets farmhouse,” said Affonso, who operates Styling Spaces Home Staging & Redesign.

Her home, located at 1196 Charles Reed Court in Gallatin, is on the market for $669,000, and Affonso believes its remodeled interior will appeal to buyers. Farmhouse redesign projects are a trend that many of her clients are asking for.

“Most want to add farmhouse style. We’re definitely mixing barnwood with elegance. I did a home in Foxland (the golf community on Old Hickory Lake) a couple of years ago. It’s very elegant, but we found a barnwood table at an antique store that was in the movie 'Driving Miss Daisy,' ” said Affonso.

“People are mixing elements. Everybody’s watching HGTV and DIY Network and Joanna Gaines,” star of “Fixer Upper” on HGTV, said Affonso.

The majority of new homes on the market in some neighborhoods are farmhouse style, including upscale neighborhoods like Fairvue Plantation and The Grove in southern Williamson County, said Peggy St. Peters, a Realtor with Coldwell Banker Lakeside in Hendersonville.

“Now you see this at every price point. This is what people are looking for. With an existing home, you have to remodel it to have what people want,” said St. Peters, who is Affonso’s real estate agent.

“The floors are wider plank, more natural looking, fireplaces, lighting. Those are things anyone can do without ripping their house apart,” she said.

Farmhouse style homes have simplified rooflines and other features that are less complicated and less expensive to build than many other architectural styles, said Walny.

“People can put their money toward things they would rather spend it on, like granite countertops,” he said.

It also adds coziness and comfort to a home, said St. Peters.

“It makes an elegant home beautiful,” she said. “You want elegance, but you want people to sit down and stay awhile.”

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