It's no secret that we have a little thing for barns and we completely fell for this historic English cathedral barn, located in the Catskill Mountain Park Preserve and built in 1876. In 1977 the barn was purchased by architectural writer Ernest Burden who used the home as inspiration for his book, Living Barns: How to Find and Restore a Barn of Your Own. In the early 1990s, David Brown purchased the property and converted it from a summer home to a place his family could live for all seasons. Are we alone in lusting for this space? Do you have a thing for barns?
do I have a thing for barns??? I just drooled on my keyboard when I saw these photos!!!
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The Jewett Barn webiste states $900,000...the listing $669,000. Ouch.
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I adore that spiral staircase... and the iron work on the handrail.
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I once lived in a converted barn and loved it. It's very much like living in a loft, only in the country.
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What an evocative space. magical, both inside and out.
why white? I love the colours, and having seen some cavernous historic homes in the UK, many have rich colours on the walls (as do many of the late nineteenth-century homes in my current hometown). The space can support them in ways that many contemporary homes just can't.
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I posted the best photos here, but if you look on the website for the barn--http://jewettbarn.com/index.html--the interior is painted in the strange (in my opinion) combination of pinkish red, yellow, blue, purple and green... I'd just prefer the interior to be a little less garish... but that's just my opinion and what I'd do if I had an extra $700,000 lying around!
-Amy
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