This looks a bit better, but too large, not affordable to buy with cash and too costly to maintain…

Maybe it has something to do with a passion for natural living spaces, aesthetic taste and an urge for privacy and seclusion? Long ago I was deeply influenced by the beauty of a landscape-blended architecture by Frank Lloyd Wright. At that time I watched many documentaries about the unique city buildings and private homes created by him and visited Taliesin West in AZ. Architecturally, I find ranchos and homes featured in Mountain Living and Log & Timber Living magazines, aka lodge-style, pretty harmonious and blended in nature, with auspicious energy. Those who didn’t read The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand ✋before their 40’s may be missing some neural association block (no offense, I’ve irrevocably missed many others by now :)).

✋ Note: I am not a fan of Objectivism, but sure it may get you captured intellectually. The story about the mind of an architect is convincing.

Too simplistic, yet spacious and comfortable

Speaking of using natural materials, on another side of the architecture sophistication spectrum there lies an Amish community of skilled carpenters who inherited an ancient tradition of building from logs or stone as rustic and cheap as possible. These homes usually have a simplistic look with poor interior style, yet they are spacious and comfortable, because they are designed for large families and gatherings, like Native American longhouses.

Requirements#2:

2.A Spacious and comfortable
2.B Cost effective
2.C Fairly sophisticated interior design, bold outside look with “character”, resembling of Mountain / Log & Timber Living designs