@veggiemanuk:
Hmm, guess there are some farmhouses where the cattle is on the ground floor.
But most farmhouses I have seen have a separted stable. Some have an own house as stable, while in others there is a a separated part of the house for the cattle.
We have different farmhouses for every county of Austria. So a Tyrolean farmhouse looks very different from an Upper Austrian farmhouse.
We have even different architecture for Western, Northern, Eastern Upper Austrian farmhouses. Well I grew up in Up. Austria.
But I will spare you the details of the architectual differences, cause I don\'t think you guys will be in interested =).