One of the reasons we moved back from North Carolina to Massachusetts was to have more land (because at 40 degrees and windy on March 24, it surely wasn't the weather--but talk to me again in July!). While our old house had more square footage, the lot it was built on was about 1/10 the size of our current lot. In NC, I looked out the window while blogging and could see 5 of my neighbors houses, practically in their windows. Here I can barely see one other house from my desk, it's pretty far back and in a few months it will be pleasantly obscured with foliage and flowering trees.
Of course we have about 10 times the yard work that we did before as well ; ).
One of the hidden gems on our 'acreage', is an old chicken coop.
At one time, my neighbor's house was the so-called manor house of a 100 acre working farm with apple orchards, migrant workers from Italy, horses and of course, chickens. The current property line runs through the chicken coop (faulty surveying tools from 50 years ago??), with most of it on our side.
Right now, the chicken coop is very, um, rustic looking...
In fact, some people might just have at it with a sledgehammer and a dumpster and be done with it.
Not me.
I want a studio out there.
Jen Bowles Design at the Coop.
There are 3 full rooms that could be renovated--and they're big rooms, about 20'x15'. There's quite a bit of work to be done--the space currently lacks a roof, electricity, running water, a heat source, a floor and windows. Details.
But the dream is there.
It could be such a cool space with just a bit of vision and a lot of hard work and of course a small pile of $$.
Ebby thinks it should be a clubhouse.
A clubhouse for artists, maybe.
Perhaps in a few years...
Or if I win the lottery.
Until then I'll just keep looking out the window and dreaming.
And cutting back brush on the weekends : )
