So, remember back to the beginning of our move? Remember the reasons we bought the Airstream? All of our grand plans to build a house and buy 11 acres and live in the 'Stream while we built? Well... funny thing about plans: They Change!
They change and shift and you have to change right along with them or you get all bent out of shape! Roll with the punches, as they say. Well, after trying to buy the land and having it fall through and not really knowing where to go from there, we just sorta figured we'd just live in the Airstream where it is through the winter and then maybe move it up to my parents' property for the spring and summer and save money like crazy. We would, of course, keep our eyes open for property in the meantime but, we figured it would be spring before we really started looking again. Then, BAM! We see this house come on the market. We seriously could not believe it.
Our story with this homestead began back in 2007. We had owned our Main St. house for about a year and we were getting more into real food and fermented foods, etc... I wanted to start making kefir and so I started looking around. I found this wacky blog somehow and they were selling kefir grains. They were also selling their mini-homestead. We drove out, got the tour from the homeowners and commented on how much we would love to be able to buy their house but we just weren't in the market right then. We eventually bought the kefir grains and went on our way. Ever since then, this place has been somewhere in the back of our minds as the perfect little starter-homestead. Big enough to provide for all of our food needs and small enough to manage as newbies. It came on the market again in 2011 but, we weren't looking to move then. We had a baby and a dog and we were happy living in town.
Now, here we are, two years later and I find this house on the market again. Apparently, each time the owners went to sell (yes, the same owners we met 5 years ago) they had plans fall through. Family illness, bad financing, change-of-mind... so they just kept on living there, assuming it wasn't time to leave yet. I guess the house was being saved for us. (As long as everything continues to go smoothly.)
So, here we are. Buying a house.
It has just under 4 acres, an old barn, a milking shed, a chicken house, rabbit hutches, trees, gardens, herbs, fencing, views, privacy... it's got it all. Sure, 4 acres isn't a huge amount of land and we won't be running a large-scale farm but, I think it fits us just right.
The house is 1600+/- sqft which is almost double the size of our last house. HUGE change! It has 4 bedrooms, 1 bath and a full, dry (dry, guys, dry!) basement. It is the original farmhouse on the road and was built by the Hale family (hence, Hale Rd) in the early 40's. The house is totally outdated and will eventually need a makeover, including a new kitchen and bathroom, but for now we just plan on painting pretty much everything to freshen it all up and then live with the old stuff until we can save up some money to renovate. Lots of potential here!
There's an old, tiny cabin in the back called the "summer kitchen" where the original family lived while they built and then I guess they cooked out there in the summer sometimes after they moved into the main house. Pretty cute little place. Perfect workshop.
I could go on about all of the little gardens and everything but, I'll let you take a look at these photos instead.
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| Side of the house. The door goes into the "breezeway" (which is my favorite part!) and then into the kitchen. |
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| Front. Will need some love but, we'll be glad to give it. |
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| The "breezeway". Best thing ever. |
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| Here's the way old and outdated kitchen. One row of cabinets. I love the bay window over the sink though!! |
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| Oh, hello refrigerator! Why are you all the way on the other side of the room? No one knows. We will have to figure out how to fix this. Wood stove = awesome. |
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| Dining area (Dining area, people! A real one!), stairs to upper bedrooms, doorway to family room. There's that fridge again... |
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| Bathroom, obviously. It's not horrible... but will get an update eventually. |
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| Upper bedroom #1. That brick chimney will give off some nice warmth in the winter. Huge closets. |
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| Upper bedroom #2. Lovely views of the pasture. |
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| The pasture! |
We appreciate your prayers for everything to go smoothly as we still have to get through inspections and the appraisal before we can close. Closing is set for December 10th, as of right now. Just in time for Christmas! :-)
"Now, what in the world are you guys going to do with the Airstream??" you might ask. Well, I'll tell ya. As it stands right now, we plan to keep it. I just love it so much and I don't want to part with it. It's the perfect guest house and although the house will have a guest bedroom, they'll also have the option of a whole Airstream to themselves. We are also considering renting it out eventually for weekends and Tech games, etc... If we do that, we'll set it up somewhere more private on the property for a nice little getaway. Check out these! Rob and I have always wanted to run a bed and breakfast so, maybe this is the twist on the traditional recipe. ;-)
Anyway, I'm sure there's lots more I could say and will say in the coming months but, for now, we're excited and ready for our next adventure! Cheers!
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