About a month ago, Chris and I bought a farmhouse about an hour north of our actual house. Our plan is to use the farm as a vacation place; when we were looking, the fact that we wouldn't actually live full time in this house gave us the freedom to consider something we've talked about for years: getting a place that needed... a bit of love.
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| If we can't save the stone porch, I'll probably cry. |
We'd spent most of the spring and summer looking at places online and driving up to scope them out, and nothing ever seemed worth taking up the time of a realtor to actually step inside. And then we saw this on the Internet, and basically called the realtor immediately. Then we went to see it, and walked saying delighted things about the vintage light fixtures and the wide baseboards, and then we pretended like we wanted to see another house that turned out to actually be in far, far worse shape without any charm to redeem it... and then we went back to the realtor and wrote up an offer before going home for the night. It's probably one of the fastest joint decisions we've made in over ten years together.
We're putting up this blog to keep track of what we do up at the farm, and to give the people who don't live near us but keeping asking for photos a chance to see what this place is that we keep talking about. So. A small amount of basic information -- more pictures and details will definitely follow!
It's the original farmhouse from this parcel, built in about 1885. That makes it one of the oldest houses in the area, especially that's still standing. The front porch has doors into the living room/parlor and the dining room; there's a lean-to off the back of the house that has a door into the kitchen. The first floor also has a bathroom and a master bedroom. Upstairs, there are three more bedrooms and a huge attic space that could eventually be a nice bonus room. The house has an artesian well, which basically means the water is constantly flowing right through the house and into an outlet at the edge of the property (hence the name of the blog). It sits on an acre of property in the midst of farmland; you can hear the cows calling to one another across the fields.
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| This is the lean-to that leads into the kitchen. |
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| There's a small shed in the yard. |
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| One last look from the side yard. |
And that's our new (old) farmhouse!
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