Second to Brambly Pines

1903 Farm House

Back yard

Old barn

On the way home from our Fall drive to the quilt shop, Chuck took a different way.  It brought us by this beautiful 1903 farm house.  It was going up for auction the next day.  Of course we stopped!  I just HAD to see the inside of this house!  As soon as I walked into the front door, I fell in love.  My mind started racing with how I would decorate it with all our things.  ...yes....I would sooooo live there!  Well, when I really made myself think about it, I could NEVER give up Brambly Pines and our house now but oh how I wanted to live in that house too.  As you walked in the front door, you were in a wide hallway.  On the left, was the " parlor"....with a bay window, fire place and wooden floors.  On the right of the hallway was a huge bedroom with a fire place.  ( I would have made that our TV room and the "parlor " a sitting room )  There was a formal dining room and a kitchen that had been redone with blue/white tiles.  I know...see....my stuff would have fit right in.  A laundry room off the back of the kitchen and on the side of the kitchen was a small screened porch....with a stain glass door between the two.  There was a bathroom and a small den downstairs also.  Upstairs...ya had to be care full or you would hit your head on the beam for the floor upstairs, going up the stairs.You had to duck.  As you come off the stairs, you were in a huge, wide hallway.  Big enough to be a small room.  There were 3 bedrooms and a bathroom up there.  All with beautiful windows and claw footed tubs.  My mind was " painting and decorating" each room as I stood in the middle of them.  Not only was the house beautiful but the area outside was too.  The house was sitting on 4 1/2 acres, with an old barn and a wooden garage.  The view out the back was nothing but land to the mountains in the forest.  The front view of the house was a huge field which had just been harvested.  As far as you could see...was the field.  Right off the side yard by the kitchen was a garden big enough to grow plenty of food in the summer.  Yes, if I wasn't in love with Brambly Pines so much, we would have been going to that auction the next day.  What a beautiful place to live.