UK farmland is at a new premium as people flock to countryside investments and the lifestyle appeal of rural home design, it has been claimed.A survey commissioned by Country Life magazine and carried out by Savills Rural Research has found that Britains top 25 per cent of arable farms outperformed all other major investment groups in both 2006 and 2007.While farming is itself exciting new demand, non-farming lifestyle investors were also shown to be behind 35 per cent of farmland transactions in 2007, highlighting the appeal of the spacious farmhouse kitchen and views of rolling fields.Old-fashioned rural homes amid British farmland will more often than not boast an open-plan cooking and eating-ready farmhouse kitchen - avoiding the need for new occupants to blast through walls and merge cooking and dining rooms. Spacious farmhouse kitchens will typically provide room for homeowners to install a generously-sized kitchen sink, with Frankes Belfast ceramic VBK 771 model providing a traditional rural look and a practical multi-bowl format.