Our Farm
- The main farmhouse
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We live in a four-walled timber-frame farmhouse near Frankfurt, Germany. The house was built in 1834 and we have the tallest barn in town. When we bought the house it was a 3 bedroom, 1 bath. It’s now a 2/2 with a 1/1 guest house…and we hope to make it a 4/4 within the next few years by building out the attic.
The farm is built in a U formation with a gate across the front serving as the fourth wall. The barn and several other building complete the U and behind the barn we have a 1,000 sq. foot garden. We’d like to be self-sufficient here and eventually get off the grid…but we’ve got plenty of other things to complete before we worry with that.
Recent Posts about out home renovation projects
- Medium-sized aquaponics how to -- The grow bed
- Mudroom shelves make all the difference
- Finally giving the mudroom some more love
- Building a pump house for our Gardena system
- Bringing in the reinforcments to paint outside
The renovated guest bath downstairs
Projects we’re working on
- Horse Stalls Build Out – 95%
- Mud Room Build Out - 65%
- Garden – 40%
- Woodworking workshop – 40%
- Miscellaneous organizing around farm so we can find stuff – 40%
- Chicken coop conversion to outdoor kitchen & seating area – 40%
- Master bedroom closets, remodel – 95%
- Wine Cellar Build Out – 5%
- Mackenzie’s Nursery – 25%
- Climbing Wall – 0%
- Clean out long attic – 0%
- Build out attic in main house – 0%
- Wood-burning hot tub – 0%
Projects we’ve finished
- Renovate avocado bathroom
- Add a kitchen – Part 1, Part 2
- New bath upstairs
- Convert kitchen to office
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i like your blog!!! well done. good luck with all those projects. i too want to get into sustainability. we live in the outer banks, north carolina.
have a great day!!
amanda
Thanks for dropping by, Amanda! Sometimes it seems like our to do list has a to do list of its own…but we hope to get our act together in 2010 and really push through with a few important projects and start making our farm easier to take care of. There are so many items that require so much maintenance and attention…and we just don’t have that sort of time. All the best in your sustainability efforts! Remember, you can start nearly anywhere — even if it’s just making your own cleaning solutions and baking your own bread.
I smiled so hard when I clicked on the farmhouse link and saw the picture…a farmhouse in Germany is definitely nothing like what we call a “farmhouse” here in Canada–but it is beautiful! And timberframe houses are really built to last.
I laugh to myself all the time when I think about this being a “farm”…because in Texas our farms are so very different. But this place is fairly typical for a German farm in the city. We’d love to have something with a bit more land around it…but here it’s usually either hardly any land or tons of it…and you need to have millions if you want tons of land!
I love old farm houses! Great job on really bringing yours to life.