I about died when I saw this...



Our vacuum died, and my wife brought home one with ZOMBIE GREEN accents. (insert gag icon here)

Now all you need is a full length porch across the front of your house, and a couple rockin chairs for "Relaxing evenings" Oh and banjo would probably help.

Actually seeing the pic, I like the layout of your place. Our old pastor's house is set up like that, and he heats it with a wood burning stove, and a small one at that!

We supplement forced air heat with a wood burner (its off the to the right). We love having a house that is a simple rectangle with a 1328sf foot print (plus the loft shown above..which is our "winter bedroom". Gets too hot up there in the summer so we sleep down on the main floor).

ETA: We also cook on our woodstove when we're using it, and it is sized to heat the entire main level to comfortable levels. If we heat to "main level comfort" (which is 62F) the loft is a toasty 70F. I can get the back of the hall (shown in the picture) to 78F with the stove (running it at about 450F).

It has a full length covered porch across the front, and two swivel rockers. LOL.

Part of "downshifting". We have sold our custom built McMasion and bought this little place. It only took 9 months of my wife working 10 hours a day, me working 3 per night through the week and all day Friday, Saturday, Sunday to complete the remodel and make it liveable.

I love having our "Living Room", "Dining Room", "Foyer" and "Kitchen" as one space. It eliminates wasted overlaps and circulation. Since we can't have kids, the open loft works for us too.

Gary, ours has a flour sifter in it and an enameled table top.

You have a nice home.

That is really nice Gary. I remember the old Ice box, NOT a fridge, that my Grandma had. She did use it for that at one time but by the time I came along it wasn't anything more than an old (but in GREAT shape) storage box. It had one smaller door for the ice block and a couple of other doors, one tall and narrow and the other rather square.

Gary showed (I THINK) a few pics of the work in progress. They've done good.

Thanks Adam and Randy.

We really "downshifted" when we bought this place. It was in DESPERATE need of remodeling. Here's a few pictures of the Great Room that is pictured above while we were remodeling...







Here's a little further along...




(the Woodstove is under the moving blanket)



Here's after we finished the repairs, installed fireboard backing, painted, installed the floor and tile, and just finished setting the woodstove...

The bathrooms were fun to remodel...

We did almost all of the work on our little country home by ourselves.

Here's the subdivision house we sold to buy our rural downshifted self-reliant little cabinesque place....