Little Sister House

My dad found this house. He calls it the little sister to ours because of the funny roof lines. It was an exciting find because this house has the exact same trim under the eaves as our house so we asked the owners and were able to take some pieces to replace some areas that were missing on our house.

Two years ago when we did this you could still comfortably walk through the house. Now all of the windows are broken out and there are many spongy places when you walk. This time I was not even comfortable going upstairs to photograph the rooms up there.

If we had known this house had existed before buying ours this one might have been a better choice. It is half way between were we work instead of minutes from where I work and a hour from where Tim works. Plus the acreage is much nicer. The out building are in much nicer shape, and it still has its grove and other mature trees (a lovely apple greets you at the front of the drive).


the west side of the house


the east side of the house


north-east side of the house


north-west side of the house


roof lines on the east side of the house


the barn


the front door of the house

The following pictures were taken standing just inside the front door

right in front of you when you enter is the house's main stair


the floor in front of the stairs is thin maple strips in a radiating pattern


this is the room to your left which appears to be the most muddled of all of them


what would have been the dining room is to the right


it has this great beadboard pantry (the kitchen is through the door next to it)


on the wall next to the pantry was this little wall nook

Next I went into the kitchen through the door in the little addition on the east side of the house.

doorway to the kitchen (the cellar stairs are next to it)


the cabinets are the other side of the set in the dining room


here's a close up of the doorway straight a head
There's a room that's kind of a little hall under the main stairs and it leads into another little room. I would guess that at sometime that little room and the muddled front room were divided.

To my right when I enter the kitchen is two little rooms,

one that looks like it was being used as a laundry room


and this little bathroom


after these is the back servants stairs


and then this long narrow room with the great beadboard

The reason I don't feel to bad about how things ended up is the floor plan to this place is a mess.
The second floor is split in two. You cannot enter the "main" rooms of the upstairs from the servants area. No problem what so ever with our place. It is set up perfectly for how we live. We couldn't have designed it better ourselves.


Oh and by the way I found this lovely flowered bush growing into the house. Does anyone have any idea what it might be?