Just under 6,000-square-feet, Lauri and Doug Siddoway’s home on a 290-acre barley farm in rural Squirrel, Idaho is pictured. Originally, the couple asked for a traditional, Tuscan-style home, but their architect, Mitch Blake of Jackson, Wyo.-based Ward+Blake Architects, thought a modern look would gel better with the property’s wide open farmland and mountain views. TONY DEMIN FOR THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

A couple’s contemporary retreat on their 290-acre barley farm.

When Lauri and Doug Siddoway were planning to build a home on their 290-acre barley farm in rural Squirrel, Idaho, they asked their architect to design them something in a traditional, Tuscan-style akin to their Italian-revival home in Spokane, Wash.

What they got is anything but Tuscan. Or traditional.

Just under 6,000-square-feet, the modern four-bedroom, 3½-bathroom home is divided into two pavilions connected by a covered outdoor walkway under the home’s Corten steel and sod roofs. Outside are weathered-looking cedar beams and steel columns girded by split Engelmann spruce logs.

Inside, big glass windows reveal jagged mountain peaks and gold-and- green grain fields out back. The floors are concrete; the vaulted ceilings of reclaimed wood have exposed structural beams. Standing on the back patio, Ms. Siddoway, a 60-year-old appellate court judge, said matter-of-factly: “We didn’t envision this.”...Continue Reading

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