Here's a picture showing the wood cookstove, looking from the base of the stairway, towards the living/TV area. The glass door on the right leads out to the attached greenhouse.
The rack suspended over the cookstove is used for drying produce. Copper pipes lead from the stove up to a hot water tank enclosed in a wooden closet on the second floor.
The TV/living room from the entry.
This picture is taken from one end of the library, in a wing of the house constructed in 1986. The futon couch folds down into a full sized bed. Floor is wide pine. Doorway straight ahead leads down two steps into the main house "great room". Bathroom is through the doorway on the left. There is a closet located behind the camera in this photo, and a door which leads out to the wood shed.
Here's the full bath/laundry. There is a 6' wide closet located behind the camera. The floor is new wide ceramic, wavy edged tile. All floors on this level of the house feature radiant heat.
This is a shot looking through the doorway from the living room into the greenhouse. The greenhouse was constructed in the fall of 2004, and was planted in January. With the radiant heat in the beds, seedlings came up fast, and we've been gathering enough for two salads a week from there for two months now.
Upstairs, there is a master bedroom, featuring pine floors, vmatch pine walls, shiplap pine ceilings, and river stone chimney. The wooden box next to the chimney contains the hot water tank that stores hot water which thermosyphons up from the wood cookstove.
Taken from same location as the last photo, but looking towards the doorway leading to the two-bed "kids' " room. The stairway features a rustic mortis and tenon-joint balcony and railing, made of peeled oak and beech, as well as a counterweighted trap door, which can be closed to keep heat downstairs if desired.
Here's the kids' room , looking west. The opening in the ceiling is a dormer window well. New window installed in west wall in 2004 for egress.
Kids' room looking east.
The outside of the house, looking east. In the middle is the original structure, moved to this lot in the early 1950's, possibly from the town of Flagstaff. Flagstaff was flooded when the Dead River was dammed in the 1950's, to generate hydroelectric power. The portion of the house to the left was built in the 1950's, the greenhouse on the right was added in 2004.
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view looking northeast, showing the greenhouse. The scaffolding to
the right was set up so that we could reside the wing. The fence in
the picture is the 7' high deer fence that we've had to install
around the garden. The deer patrol the perimeter nightly, looking for
an opening in. The apple tree gave us a few bushels of apples last
fall.
A view looking northwest. The woodshed is getting a new roof and some structural work this spring. The wing, between woodshed and the main house, was added in 1986. It contains the bathroom and library. Prior to 1986, the previous owner had a hand pump at the kitchen sink for water, and an outhouse, rather than a flush toilet. In '86, when the wing with bathroom was built, the previous owner connected to the Eustis Public Water system.
This last picture shows the two bay workshop/garage.
That's the tour!