A Home With Room to Roam

With barns, assorted outbuildings, and dreamy gardens to boot, these picturesque farmhouses deliver the full country kit and caboodle.

- written by JENNIFER KOPF

$1,250,000 New Paltz, NY 5 BR; 3 BA; 3,176 SQ. FT.

WHY YOU'LL LOVE IT: As if the pretty white clapboard farmhouse weren't enough (how charming is that porch?), Plattekill Brook Farm's five-plus picturesque acres include multiple red barns brimming with possibility. There's also a meandering creek out back.

AGENT: This Old Hudson at Houlihan Lawrence; thisoldhudson.​com WORK REQUIRED:

< $330,000 Jonesborough, TN 3 BR; 3 BA; 2,422 SQ. FT.

WHY YOU'LL LOVE IT: Porches galore! You'll also find a beadboard-wrapped dining room and an upgraded living space anchored by a large fireplace. Upstairs, bedrooms with wood floors have lots of renovation potential-there's plenty of the good old stuff hiding under the wallboard and those ceiling tiles.

AGENT: Heather Price; pricepropertyteam.​com WORK REQUIRED: