Coastal Farmhouse Custom Home in St. Petersburg, Florida
This stunning new construction blends the timeless charm of a coastal farmhouse with sleek modern design. The exterior features crisp white stucco, a gabled roof, and a prominent central balcony with dual access. The front facade is defined by its clean lines, striking pergola, and a symmetrical layout that creates a welcoming and elegant entrance.
Coastal farmhouse can go wrong fast — the typology is one of the most over-applied residential genres of the last decade. This 1st Street NE residence avoids the trap by leading with architectural discipline rather than stylistic shorthand. The result is a new construction home that reads as genuinely coastal-farmhouse rather than as a checklist of farmhouse cues.
The exterior is anchored by crisp white stucco rather than the more familiar shiplap-and-cladding combination, giving the home a quieter material expression that lets the proportions do the work. A traditional gabled roof reads as appropriate to the typology without being over-detailed, and a prominent central balcony with dual access provides both an architectural focal point on the elevation and a usable outdoor room on the upper level.
The front facade is defined by what's been removed as much as what's been added. Clean horizontal lines replace the heavy trim packages farmhouse typology often defaults to. A striking pergola at the entry sequence frames the front door without overwhelming it. Symmetrical composition across the elevation gives the home a welcoming, balanced presence — the kind of entrance that reads confident from the curb but not formal.
This is contemporary flair worked into a coastal farmhouse vocabulary the way it should be: as architectural restraint applied to a culturally legible form, not as decoration layered on top. The project represents MTBH Studios' work in stylistically blended residential design — where typology references are starting points rather than templates, and where integrated design-build delivery ensures the design intent survives intact through construction.
