SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — Have you ever heard of a barndominium or a shouse? It’s a house that was built with a style of architecture influenced by rural America. But yet they have a modern design ...

Simply sign up to the Property myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Fashion in architecture has a tendency to move in long, slow cycles. And so it is with the much derided barn conversion.

Characterized by a simple structure and a gable roof, the traditional barnyard typology responds to its original function: sheltering farm products and livestock. In recent years, however, the barn ...