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I still like this sliding barn door trend, especially on this converted barn/home. via I woke up early after a half day of mowing yesterday and I'm almost finished with my fall cleanup. I was shocked into getting it finished after I saw photos of an early dusting of snow in Connecticut and upstate New York this week. It is unusually warm today and that's good for the trick or treaters. Happy Halloween. xo
A raging thunder storm drove me into the house today, so instead of doing laundry, I decided to blog. But then I fell asleep while my photos were uploading so I'm going to bet I don't get this post done until tomorrow when it will no longer be Thunder Storm Day. It bothers me to say "today" in a post when it's really tomorrow by the time I get around to publishing. At the moment it's still today, but by the time you read this it will be tomorrow, and the Thunder Storm Day will be yesterday. Capiche? It's been just like the movie Groundhog Day around here for the last couple weeks. With a few exceptions, every day is the same. I truly don't know how to make endless days of gardening sound even a little bit interesting, so I won't even try. Dirt, flowers, water, fertilizer, sunscreen, filthy overalls. Living the gardening dream. I'm getting close though...hopefully I'll be all done by the end of the week. It hasn't been all gardening fun and games though. I managed to sneak in a couple more photo shoots for the clothing boutique in town. This first shoot was on a gorgeous, gorgeous evening, and we were just killing time on the dock waiting for the sun to mellow out a bit. The lighting was harsh, but I still love how they turned out. (The above photos are processed with Florabella's Retro Lollipop action.) For the store, we needed to pick photos that really show off the clothes and accessories, so the following three shots are the ones that made it into the boutique. Katy was the easiest model ever. Every single shot was a keeper. It was hard to choose, but I love the combination we ended up with. This was so much fun....I could do it all day. All day, every day. But then, who would do my gardening? And put off going to the post office to return my six extra dresses? Most importantly, who would not cook dinner for my family? Happy Day After Thunderstorm Day!
This magnificent Grade I listed Tudor hall is now home to a stunning Tom Howley classic English kitchen. Delve behind the design on our blog.
The ultimate goal was to create a non-traditional horse barn. The memorable blue hue and layout was carefully thought out.
I kept moving around trying to get the horse's head out from behind the barn, but I was too far away to make a difference. Just had to wait for the horse to move and it wasn't in any hurry. Must have found a good patch of grub. So, here it is, with the horse's head behind the barn. ;o)
The details of a barn are just as important as the structure itself. Check out some beautiful barn lighting.
Are you scratching your head trying to figure out the best things to include in your barn plans to provide a safe, secure and healthy place for your horse to live? What do you really need? What a…
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40'x60' Great Plains Gambrel located in Nebraska. 12' Lean-To's
If you don't know this about me already, I could photograph sheep in barns all day.
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Clackamas County says the farm house was built in 1912. It's a good bet that the barn was built before the house, making it a century-old structure. Jason Faucera, a District conservation and information technology specialist, is also a fine photographer. We know this because he wins ribbons at
En viktig og fin plakat som passer både på barnerommet, på skolen eller i barnehagen. "Barn er som sommerfugler i vinden: noen flyr høyere enn andre, men alle flyr så godt de kan. Så hvorfor sammenligne dem. Hver av dem er forskjellige, spesielle og vidunderlige."
The national parks system has been called America's best idea.If that's true, then fracking on the doorstep of those parks might possibly be its worst. But that's exactly what the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) that controls public lands around national parks has proposed.It wants new regulations so weak they would allow oil and gas
I enjoy the the vast, open skies of the prairies. The clouds, the different colors, a storm brewing in the distance, old buildings, barns, daisies and sunflowers are just a few of my favorite things. I hope you enjoy taking a back road with me and seeing what is in my backyard. Proud to be prairie born :) I actually can't take credit for this picture! My husband just held up the camera and shot through the window as he was driving! It actually turned out pretty good. Our corner of the prairies was blessed with lots of rain this past summer and the canola crops looked beautiful! I found this helpful list of places to link some photography posts to. (when you get to this page, just hit the memes tab at top) I am new to blogging, and many of you know about some of these sites. I found the Mosaic Monday link from Lorrie and she was most helpful in giving me some starter tips. I enjoy photography and am trying to capture some shots and learn as I go. Its great finding other photography enthusiasts as well. Linking to Barn Charm
Martha Stewart’s move to Bedford, New York, an upscale hamlet in Westchester County, took place over a period of several years while her new property underwent major renovations. She purchased two contiguous lots (totaling 153-acres) in 2000 and, since then, has been gradually restoring and rebuilding, making new additions and refurbishing existing structures. Once called Sycamore Farms, Martha’s property was first settled in 1784 and is known locally, today, as Cantitoe Corners. (Cantitoe was the wife of an Indian chief named Katonah who lived in the region in the 1700s.) Its previous owner, Ruth Sharpe, was an eccentric millionaire who died in 1999 at the age of 95. When her family decided to sell the property, Martha knew it was where she wanted to be. Martha’s new home is more like a small village, with a series of houses and out-buildings dotting the expansive grounds: perfect for her plans to create what she calls "a new kind of farm". Martha resides in the 1925 farm house (the Winter House), shown above – a three-story abode fronted by a long porch and dormer windows on the third level. Adjacent to the farm house is the property's original structure: a 1770 Colonial house, known as the Summer House, which is where Ms. Sharpe lived. There is also a nearby tenant’s cottage, where her daughter, Alexis, lives with her children when she is visiting. The property also contains a guest house, known as the Maple Avenue House, and a contemporary house deeper on the property. You will see photos of these below. (All photos are from TheMarthaBlog.com.) With expansive fields and swaying sycamore trees, the property is one of the finest in the region, adjacent to the home of fashion designer Ralph Lauren. Westchester County was once famous for its Republicanism and old money. Today, however, the attitude here is decidedly casual and laid back, home to a roster of celebrities, including Richard Gere, Ryan Reynolds and wife Blake Lively, and Glenn Close. Traditional roots are still intact, however. The 1939 clock tower at Sutton Corners, for instance, is wound by hand each week by the neighbors. Many of the wealthy landowners are farmers, too, tending to their land and livestock in dirty dungarees. Old money still lives on, though: Francis Kellogg still lives in his family’s 18th Century house at Mill Pond, and Robert F. Kennedy lives there with his family, tending to the region’s pollution control and water sanitation regulations. Martha, who adores new projects, snapped up Cantitoe Farm when it went up for sale and she immediately wrote a mission statement for the property, a manifesto of dreams, as it were, outlining all of her desires and plans for what she hopes will be her main residence from now on. Borrowing design and homestead philosophies from the Shaker communities in New York and Maine, Martha envisioned a farm of unparalleled practicality and style. “I want to have a new kind of house, a smart house,” she told Vanity Fair in 2005. “This is going to be the future. That’s what I’m trying to do here.” Memrie Lewis, a long-time friend of Martha’s, elaborated on Martha’s dreams in the same Vanity Fair feature. “She’s creating a magical place,” says Memrie. “Her concept is that it’s going to be a self-sufficient American farm. You never have to leave your land. She tried to do that at Turkey Hill, but it was just too small. This is the dream she’s had for a long time: to have everything you need to eat or drink – vegetables, milk, eggs, fruit, everything you can think of – right there in those acres.” Martha is already quite close to achieving this dream. In 2001 she hired famed architect Allan Greenberg to co-design many of the new building plans, including new garages, stables, greenhouses and barns, as well as converting a tractor garage into an entertaining room off the kitchen, which are both joined to the main house by a walk-through servery. Martha constructed a large garage and converted an old barn into a building for special projects: it contains a blogging room and a homekeeping studio on the main floor and a gym on the second floor. What never came to fruition, however, was a 4,500 square foot house in the center of the adjacent farm field. Preliminary sketches showed a two-story structure with banks of small-pane windows, similar in style to Shaker architecture, at the end of a long pathway surrounded by wildflowers and hostas. According to an article in the New York Times about the property, Allan Greenberg says Martha envisioned three enormous rooms inside this building (each approximately 30' x 50') for entertaining large groups. The plans, however, were never carried out. The houses that were already on the lot at the time of purchase have been completely rebuilt on their existing foundations. Martha reconfigured the layout of the Winter House to face backwards, so that its front porch looked out over the acreage rather than the road. The exteriors of the houses were done with hand-cut clapboard siding, stained gray. In fact, the entire palette of the property is gray – Bedford Gray, which became a popular paint color sold through her Martha Stewart Living paint line at the Home Depot. The color was based on an old piece of Italian stationery that Martha had in her collection. Gray stone stables, gray fencing, gray equipment buildings and gray barns dot the landscape. The interiors have also been re-worked using shades of gray. The main kitchen in the Winter House is comprised of dyed-gray sycamore veneer cabinetry with gray lacquer trim. The cabinets and shelving were designed by architect Beth Weinstein and built by Bjork Carle Woodworking in Brooklyn. The white and gray floor was cut from stone taken from the Gordon Bunshaft house Martha once owned on Long Island. The overall effect is of serenity and monochromatic harmony. To see the interiors of the Winter House, click here. Outdoors, she has had four miles of carriage roadways built on the property and she imported 100-year-old white cedar paddock fencing from Canada to create grazing paddocks for her five Friesen horses, also from Canada: a farm called Witteveen. Courtyards on the property are paved with cobblestones that once lined the streets of Elizabeth, New Jersey (Martha's home state) and were originally used as ballast on old wooden cargo ships. There are more than 45,000 daffodil bulbs planted along the rock walls that line the property (45 different varieties) and thousands of new trees have been planted since her arrival, including lilac, pin-oak and linden allées. Japanese maple groves and a pinetum were also planted. There is a peony garden boasting 200 different plants and a 'boxwood room' next to the Summer House. In spring 2007, the host of Animal Planet's Backyard Habitat, Dave Mizejewski, designated Martha's Bedford property as a Certified Wildlife Habitat with the National Wildlife Federation. Martha encourages birds, owls and bats on the property by setting up bird houses in the woods. Enjoy the photographs of Martha's farm, below: Martha in the stables with her horses and donkeys, all from Canada. The stables were designed and built by Allan Greenberg's firm with interiors designed and built by a British company called Loddon. Martha's Friesen horses grazing outdoors. To keep their coats shiny and black, Martha rarely lets them out during the height of sunny summer days, since sunlight can turn their coats a reddish hue. Early mornings and evenings are the times you'll most likely see the horses outside. The entrance to the stables. The stone used to build the stables was quarried in Vermont. The greenhouse where Martha keeps her collection of tropical plants was designed and built by Allan Greenberg's firm, based on the designs of Crystal Palace, a large cast-iron and plate-glass Victorian greenhouse built in Hyde Park, London. Martha inside the greenhouse. Behind the greenhouse is the enormous vegetable garden. Today, the garden has been converted to Martha's cutting garden and the vegetable garden has moved closer to the chicken coops. Martha displays her tropical plants during the summer months in the sunken garden, which connects the main Winter House to the Summer House. The entrance to the Summer House. The tenant cottage in the spring. The contemporary house on the property. It is the only building that Martha has not yet renovated. The formal parterre, leading up to the porch of the Winter House.
I don't often dedicate an entire post to a book. I think I have only done it twice. Once when my design obsession Beth Webb came out with her book, An Eye
For a while now I've wanted to sell my house and move to a barn. Just kidding about moving, but a girl can dream. I'm not sure if it's the openness, the exposed beams, or the architectural details that appeal to me. If you look at the image of my home, the main section actually resembles the structure of a barn. Technically, the design of my home is called Dutch Colonial or Cottage style. I prefer calling it my cottage. I'll admit that there is that barn vibe on the outside at least. I guess the desire for this life in a barn has always been there. Here are some of my dream barns. Do you dream about living in large open space home? IMAGE SOURCES: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 9. ENJOYED THIS POST? Sign up to receive a notification every time I publish by clicking here.
Tour a 5-stall barn in the countryside with beautiful stalls from American Stalls. This space is designed for horses and entertaining.
My first effort with the Epson 4990 scanner. The original slide (taken in 1980) had two staple holes in it, after I left it on my desk next to the stapler -- not a good idea when you have small children in the house. That was in 1982, long before Photoshop!
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