What does YOUR farmhouse look like?! Post pictures here!

[ozark hen]

sunbury, I hope you can get a pic posted for us to see. sounds very nice.

 

[sunbury chick]

Thank you, I am still trying.I am a real dope about this stuff!I'll try again,bear with me....

 

[SGM]

Wow, what a depressing thread. All these huge homes and farms. Sure makes me hope someday I can have a huge farm like that. My place is small and not extravigant by even the faintest imagination. Just a wake-up call I guess.

Beautiful homes everyone!

 

[dacjohns]

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I guess you didn't see mine. It should cheer you up.

 

[Jenlyn9483]

No wonderful little 100 yr old farmhouse here, (only in my dreams) I have the Doublewide on a Large corner lot with a mini farm..Only Chickens, a couple goats, a few ducks and a few quail. Don't even know where my garden is going in the spring... However..I have pictured myself on the second floor balcony of a mississippi or South GA Southern Plantation house that is the exact replica of Ruths house since I was a little girl. Ruth if you were closer I would probably work for you for free, just to be close to all the gorgeous history. You are infinitely Lucky to have it.

 

[banter]

Here's mine before decorating for fall. Built 1850.

 

[Chick_a_dee]

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LOL don't worry, we have 8 acres of heaven, with a rundown house that we bought for it's bones, and renovation potential, for instance.... I'm sitting in my living room right now, with plywood floor, several holes in the ceiling (it's an old 2 inch thick tongue and groove ceiling) and a boarded up old door LOL.... We love it, and our house isn't huge either

it's 1300 sq. ft. which is small for a house these days, we just love the history, 1870's little old farmhouse, too cute.

 

[brandywine]

We were hunting for a hovel on acreage last year.

This is what we got instead. 112 year-old farm house on 26 acres.

It was originally a 2-down, 2-up central stairway farmhouse -- the current back door was the front door. It was probably a kit, maybe a Sears kit.

The front porch, and the living room, kitchen and second-story bedroom behind it, are later additions.

The foundation is stone as thick as my arm is long.

The barn is on a new foundation, but is made of ancient timbers from a larger barn that used to be on the same spot. The barn siding is oak. Oak!

The 'burb we just moved from is infested with hideous trophy houses and McMansions. I hate 'em. And they are crap -- won't be here in 50 years, much less 150.

I love the houses posted here. They all look like home.

Ours really is.

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Okay, who or what is changing the words in my posts?

Does BYC have a Thomas Bowdler program, or is there a moderator with absolutely no life screwing around with people's posts?

 

[PineBurrowPeeps]

Well let me see if I have a pic of my house....
Ahhh here we are:

It's a historical colonial, built in 1727. It has 4 bedrooms, dining room, the little area that sticks off the right side in the photo is the kitchen and porch that was originally a wood shed on the property that was dragged up and added onto the house at some point.
The original built to the house kitchen is now our utility room/pantry, it still has the cabinets, sink, etc.
There are two baths, one up and one down, the upstairs one was added in not that long ago (as in like the 80's, which isn't too long ago when your talking about a 280+ year old house), the downstairs bath has a claw foot tub, etc.
There are 6 fireplaces in the house which all vent out of the central chimney.
In the kitchen there is a hidden staircase that goes up to the butlers pantry on the second floor and there is also the original servant quarters still up in the attic.
We've been here since Feb. I have never loved a house like I love this place. It sat for sale for over 2 years because everyone in the area thinks it's haunted. And I am being serious lol
It's not though, unless there are ghosties having fun while I'm asleep, which I don't mind.
Here are pics of the barns:

These two barns are connected. The original 1727 barn is the brown one. It's three stories with the chicken coops up on the second floor

The first floor was the carriage house, the "basement" part is around underneath and was a run-in for cows.
There was a silo for milk (it was a dairy farm) but it's gone now and just the cement circle remains outside the original barn. I love to just stand inside the circle.

The red big barn was built in 1953 and added on. It was a cattle barn.

It needs ALOT of work. There was lead paint everywhere when we moved in, the house is extrodinarily expensive to heat (we were shelling out $1000 a month last winter for oil), it's drafty, etc. But I adore it here and it's home.
You can feel the history when you walk through the door.
The front door STILL uses the original skeleton key, which we have! The place has been eerily preserved.

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We don't have alot of acerage. 4 acres, but here in RI it's a good amount of space.
Also wanted to add that in that last pic of the old brown barn, that walkway in front that leads to it, is actually a shuffleboard court in italian marble! LOL All of the original shuffleboard equipment is still in the barn, puks, sticks, cleaning tools for the court, etc.... Someone must have REALLY loved the game!

 

[chicken stalker]

We have a silo foundation also. It is built into the hill side so you can walk right up to it and look down into it. It is almost all full of dirt except a the last foot or so. We turned it into a small firepit. It is really nice to sit around and overlook our 26 acres. I have a pic somewhere......I'll post it when I find it.