I enjoyed wandering our property this quiet Spring morning and captured some photographs of some beautiful spring blossoms.
April hath put a spirit of youth in everything.
~William Shakespeare
Home Sweet Home
October 6, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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| The front entry. |
Welcome to our home.
It is nestled in the hills outside of Buffalo, New York. Everyone says it reminds them of driving up to a chalet in Germany or Switzerland the way it is perched. In the winter with the snow glistening from the roof, it looks like a gingerbread house. We love our home.
It is nestled in the hills outside of Buffalo, New York. Everyone says it reminds them of driving up to a chalet in Germany or Switzerland the way it is perched. In the winter with the snow glistening from the roof, it looks like a gingerbread house. We love our home.
The house was built in 1981 and includes four bedrooms and two and a half baths. It has a living room, a sitting room (which could also be used for a dining room), kitchen overlooking the beautiful backyard and first floor laundry.
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| Our “Chateau”. |
The house sits on five and a half acres, most of which is wooded. A ravine going down to a babbling slate stream runs through the property.
We get a ton of wildlife in the backyard including deer, flocks of turkey, fox and an array of birds to name a few.
The outdoors is our haven. In the summer months we can enjoy dipping into our in-ground pool, enjoying a glass of wine and star gazing while in the hot tub, relaxing by the fire pit my husband made and enjoying entertaining on our back patio with family and friends.
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| The fire pit in at the end of the yard before heading in to the woods. Perfect place to roast marshmallows. |
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| The patio off the back. Perfect for barbecues and entertaining. |
This is certainly our dream home, and to think we almost didn’t look at this house! It was the last house we viewed when we were house hunting and I told the realtor I wasn’t interested based on the pictures I saw on the computer. What I learned was never go by what you see online if you are house hunting! When we pulled up to this house my husband and I looked at each other and said, this is it! We didn’t even need to see the inside.
The inside needed just a little TLC and basically it was just paint. The previous owners had an eclectic taste in paint color and had pretty much every room decked out with a border. They were also smokers, so the house had an intense smell of smoke. Which probably worked in our favor since we looked beyond the smell and the colors on the wall and saw the potential.
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| The view from the patio looking towards the back. |
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| The view from the back looking towards the house. The pool is enclosed off the patio. |
Within a day after moving in to our home, the smell of smoke went away, thanks to striping the curtains that were hung and washing and painting all the walls. The house now smells like fresh apple pie baking in the oven.
I look forward to you joining me on Mother Thyme at Home as well as cooking with Mother Thyme as we journey through my home including my decorating, entertaining, family time tips to name a few. Mother Thyme will be a personal journey of what I create, and time spent with my marvelous family.
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| The driveway heading down to the road. |
Welcome, come on in!
