The End

My friends, I've enjoyed sharing our Sunnybrook journey with you.  Jim and I sold the farmhouse today. Such a bittersweet experience for me.  It had to happen, so I'm pleased it has sold, and especially pleased that it sold to people who love it as much as I do. 

Gina and Tammy (girls, I'm sorry if I butchered the spelling of your names) are sisters and two of the ladies who will be living in the house.  I have told each of them that under different circumstances we could have been grand friends.  Both are down-to-earth ladies who know what they want and work hard to achieve it.  May God bless you, ladies, with the house and in every other aspect of your lives.

Blog friends, thank you for your compliments in regard to the work done on the house....and for hanging with me from beginning to end.

Jim, thank you for all the work you did to make me happy. I love you very much. I will remain happy as long as you are in my life.

The End.

Sunnybrook.....Just Pictures

Kitchen.

Buttery.

Buttery with part of the kitchen fireplace.

Kitchen fireplace.

Kitchen fireplace.

Kitchen.

Kitchen.

Kitchen fireplace.

Kitchen.

Ceiling in hallway between kitchen and dining room.

Dining room.

Dining room looking into sitting room with laundry room on left.

Dining room.

Dining room fireplace (painting not finished).

Sitting room.

Sitting room looking into dining room and hallway on left.

Hallway and bath.

Downstairs bedroom.

Downstairs bedroom.

Downstairs bedroom.

Downstairs bedroom.

Downstairs bedroom.

Bath.

Hallway looking into living room.

Comparison Pictures - We've come a long way baby!

There was so much we wanted to do.  These are the rooms that we played with.  The others are still as they were from the beginning. I had to share with you the work that Jim put into Sunnybrook. I'm very proud of the work that he did.  It looks super good.

This is the kitchen before

AFTER!!!!

After...

And After

After...

       

This is my dream buttery....the way I wanted it to be.

When we decided to sell, I just put a wire baker's rack inside the buttery instead of shelves.

Buttery before.

Buttery after.

This is the dinning room 

                                                                  

Before

                   AND

                  AFTER

                                                The BEFORE and AFTER of the SITTING ROOM

                  


                     BEFORE

After of the sitting room

 Finally, the before and after of the downstairs bedroom.

SO sweet and country looking!

For Sale

News of our old farmhouse....We've got her up for sale.  Yep, the decision is final....we are selling Sunnybrook.  We've made major changes, yet while keeping with the farmhouse charm.  If you know of anyone who is interested in an old historic lovely spacious two-story farmhouse with a wrap-around porch and a sleeping porch upstairs please pass this information along to them!!

The house has a fully remodeled kitchen with a new beadboard ceiling, new wide-slat board walls, newly refinished wood floors and new 8-inch wide baseboards.  It also has a brand new stove and fridge....and base cabinets/wall shelves. The kitchen has a workable woodburning fireplace with new colonial-look surround. It also has a newly remodeled dining room with the same type of fireplace surround as in the kitchen, and it is partially furnished with a dininng table and six chairs...same wonderful wide baseboards, new wood floor and same wide-plank walls on one side as in the kitchen....other dining room walls are beadboard. It has a newly painted huge hallway ceiling, walls, and refinished floor, with a hall table and a long deacon's bench. The sitting room has old oak floors which can be easily refinished...good condition...just needs sanding and staining. It has freshly painted walls and comes partially furnished with a camel back couch (country red with a cream-colored design), and I'm going to finish it in an Americana theme....I have all the stuff: rug, decor, coffee table, etc.

The house sits on a level 1 3/4 acres with mature black walnut trees and lots of other trees/bushes/flowers on the lot. There's a 3-section shed that I liked almost as much as the house. It could be used as storage, but it could also be fixed up so very nice as a cute little room for almost anything. I was going to make the grandgirls a playhouse....so cute, with windows and a little porch. I could just see window boxes with flowers!

There are no side neighbors at all and the neighbors in back are really far away and you can't see them...separated by a creek. It's located 5 miles outside of Spruce Pine, NC. It's 30 miles (pretty much) in every direction from the major tourist sites of Boone, Blowing Rock, Bannel Elk, Asheville, etc. 

We paid $60,000 for the house. We're going to have it For Sale By Owner for  two weeks for $75.000 before turning it over to a realtor.....who will add their commission...I guess, although I'm not sure how they do that.  At any rate, we're selling it as described (new, never used Kenmore appliances in the kitchen and new, never used HE washer and dryer in the laundry room, which is included in the $75,000.

I will be posting pictures of all the house renovations on my blog by the end of next week; however, if you're interested in seeing the house in person, please call us at
276-337-1577.

Sad, but true

My blog following friends, it is with a sad heart that I have to tell you this, but Jim and I have decided we have to put our beloved Sunnybrook up for sale.

As you know, I am a home-based medical transcriptionist. As such, I must have immediate and uninterrupted internet access 24/7. We have explored every means available to us and, unfortunately, although we have adequate internet access at times, it is not constant and/or reliable enough to enable me to perform my job in the manner that my company requires. I find myself in a Catch-22 situation: I have to work to pay for renovations at Sunnybrook, however I'm unable to work from there!

Although there is still work to be done, the kitchen, dining room and hallway have been lovingly and painstakingly remodeled, and in a manner befitting an old farmhouse......without compromise to its charming late 1800's integrity I might add. I do hope Sunnybrook's new owner, whomever he/she turns out to be, will love this old house as much as I do, and will continue to restore it to the beauty it surely can be.

So here's an opportunity to own a lovely two-story farmhouse on a level 1 3/4 acre lot nestled in the magnificent Blue Ridge mountains of western North Carolina. Our sad loss will definitely be someone's gain.

A long time coming....

It has indeed been a long....very long....time since I've updated my blog. However, I do have pictures that prove progress has been made.  Remember to click on the pictures and maximize them for a closer look!

Remember the Betsy Ross flag Jim and I made?

Betsy Ross flag

                                                         For this spot?

Well, look at this!

Ahhhhh....FRUITION!!!!

         And this old kitchen ceiling                 and                   these old kitchen walls?

                                                                       

                                                                         Wellllll....  NOW                                                                              
     

The new kitchen ceiling and the new kitchen walls with.....
....my new $4 antique store kitchen light fixture.  I know it looks a little crooked, but it's not.

Doesn't the ceiling look wonderful?!

 Old dining room...

                 

Here's the dining room fireplace wall before

And here is the dining room fireplace wall now (lacking trim).

The old dining room floor.

              

later....

                                                            

And now the NEW dining room floor.....BEAUTIFUL!

OK, so that's all I've got to show you for now!