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Only
the upholstered furnishings are new -- everything else comes from antiques shops all across New England.
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The oldest
part of the house, formerly the stable, has an open-plan living/dining room with fireplace.
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The bright
and airy kitchen has all-new appliances and all that Cuisinart, Ice Cream Maker kind of stuff for weekend pleasures.
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The cozy Den is where we watch
our TV. Formerly the kitchen when this was a farmhouse before the Revolution.
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The ground floor Master Bedroom
has windows on three sides, overlooking the pond, and lovely fireplace for that classic "Christmas in Connecticut"
feel.
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Our one
concession to contemporary design was to put a discrete skylight over the front stairs, flooding the house with light. We
found those topographical hiking maps rolled up inside a wall.
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The upstairs Master Bedroom
is our favourite -- no fireplace, but it's warm and cozy under the eaves, with nice views up the hill to the pool and great
morning light from the windows on three sides of the room. This was the hayloft in the original building, and the trapdoor
is still there in the painted floor.
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The Guest Bedroom, also under
the eaves with windows on three sides, has an open view to the pool and our surrounding 30 acres.
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The 16' x 32'
heated pool runs on the newest chlorine-generating salt system. It's fully automated, and has no chlorine odor at all.
Located on a steep hillside overlooking the main house and pond, this is a totally private retreat where you hear nothing
but birdsong, see nothing but sky, trees and water. In summer, we only leave to pool to buy groceries at the amazing
farmers' markets.
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The
airy Pool House sports a double bed, kitchenette, and full bath. Great for guests in summer. (Closed up in winter.)
Here we store the pool floats, the Carolina rope hammock that swings between the maples on the far side of the pool,
and the umbrellas for the dining table and loungers.
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Classic
Pre-Revolutionary Connecticut What more can we say?
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In autumn,
the occasional tour bus parks outside here so people can take pictures. In spring, there are hundreds and hundreds of
daffodils, and croaking frogs. In summer, flowering shrubs and more of those frogs. In winter -- well, it's beyond
gorgeous when that once-a-year blizzard gives us two feet of snow!
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