Southern farmhouses have a specific kind of quiet room that adults still talk about decades later: the one with the good chair, the closed door, and a lock the kids never figured out. The Willowbrook is built around that idea, with a bonus room parents can actually claim, a wraparound porch for slow Sunday mornings, an open main floor that absorbs the dinner-hour noise, and a layout that keeps family life running without everyone ending up in the same room.
Specifications
- Sq. Ft.: 2,426
- Bedrooms: 4
- Bathrooms: 3
Floor Plan
Single-story layout with the master suite split from the second bedroom. The kitchen anchors the center, with a rear porch, front porch, and garage filling out the rest of the plan.
Floor Plan
The upper level holds the master suite, three additional bedrooms, the bonus room, and a shared bath, with the staircase dropping down to the kitchen and living areas below.
Sunlight Does the Heavy Lifting in This Open-Concept Farmhouse Great Room
Floor-to-ceiling windows pour afternoon light across wide-plank hardwood floors, and the brass wagon-wheel chandelier anchors the dining area without competing with the built-in bookcase and cabinet unit nearby. Open sightlines run straight through to the kitchen’s farmhouse sink — the whole main floor reads as one connected space rather than a series of rooms you pass through.
Common Mistake: Homeowners often center a ceiling fan on the geometry of a great room rather than on the seating zone, which in vaulted open-concept spaces puts the airflow nowhere near where people sit. Mount it over the furniture, not over the middle of the floor. You’ll feel the difference immediately.
Brass Drum Pendants and Bleached Oak Make a Case for Warm Minimalism
Two oversized brass drum pendants hang low over the island, and they earn their scale. The cabinetry runs lighter toward the island and deepens slightly toward the range wall, giving the wood tones some variation to work with rather than reading as a flat wash of color. White quartz keeps the counters clean. Unfussy. Grounded.
Pendant height matters more than pendant size
- Hang pendants so the bottom clears seated eye level by several inches
- Match pendant metal to cabinet hardware for visual continuity
- In kitchens with warm wood tones, cool-metal fixtures read as contrast, not complement
Built-Ins Flanking a Fireplace Still Work. Here’s Proof.
Warm oak cabinetry wraps a tile-surround fireplace between two bookcase alcoves, while the vaulted ceiling and exposed beam keep the whole thing from feeling heavy or overdone.
Why the Beam Placement Matters Here
That single exposed wood beam running perpendicular to the ridge does more than add texture. It visually anchors the high point of the vault and gives the eye somewhere to land before the ceiling gets away from you — without it, a vault this tall tends to feel unfinished rather than dramatic. Paired with the warm tone of the built-ins below, it connects the upper third of the room to the lower millwork without requiring any additional material to do it.
Crown Molding and a Candle-Style Chandelier Make Empty Feel Intentional
A brass chandelier with six candle arms anchors the room above light gray walls and wood-look plank flooring. Nothing else in here yet — and it doesn’t need anything else.
The Psychology Behind This: Empty rooms reveal what a space is actually made of. Buyers often make up their minds in unfurnished rooms, and crown molding with a quality light fixture does more persuasive work here than any sofa or staging prop could.
Double Vanities, a Soaking Tub, and a Frameless Shower All in One Room
Gold-toned hardware ties together the white cabinetry and quartz counters without overpowering either. The frameless glass shower enclosure uses large-format tile, which reads calmer than anything with a lot of grout lines breaking it up.
Trend Alert: Separate vanity stations are showing up more often in primary baths, even in rooms where square footage is tight. Individual sink zones kill the morning bottleneck without requiring a full his-and-hers layout. Designers are pulling this off with one long run of cabinetry split by a visual break — a change in finish, a gap, a different mirror — rather than two entirely separate pieces.
Horizontal Cable Rail at the Stair Opening Earns Its Place Up Here
Black horizontal cable railing frames the stairwell opening without closing off the landing. Wide-plank wood-look flooring runs throughout, the black ceiling fan keeps the palette consistent, and the whole landing manages to feel deliberate rather than like a leftover space.
History Corner: Cable railing systems moved into residential construction during the early 2000s, borrowed largely from commercial and marine architecture where unobstructed sightlines mattered more than ornament. The horizontal cable style shown here was a coastal staple long before it spread inland into modern farmhouse design — which is part of why it holds up. It reads current without being pinned to a single moment.
Patterned Cement Tile Earns Its Keep in a Laundry Room Built for Real Use
The encaustic-style floor tile pulls in gray tones that keep the white shaker cabinets from reading clinical. Brass hardware and a pull-down faucet do actual work here rather than just accessorizing, and open shelving above the sink leaves hanging space right where you need it instead of behind a cabinet door.
Budget Tip: Shaker cabinet doors are among the least expensive profiles a cabinetmaker offers, which means you can redirect budget toward hardware upgrades instead. Swapping standard pulls for solid brass bar handles costs far less than changing the door style entirely — and in a room like this, the hardware is what you actually notice.
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Exterior photo of a white modern farmhouse paired with its single-level floor plan showing two bedrooms, open living areas, and a rear porch.
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