Homestead Pictures Thread..

[BobbyB]

Originally Posted by RebelDigger

You asked so here ya go LOL. Before we bought in September 2010 -- originally a two room "dog trot" (someone closed the dogtrot hallway in and put in a door in the 1960s). It was built in the late 19th Century.




Here it is after we got started working on it in the summer of 2011 (it has paint now but, I don't have a good picture yet).



Here is our latest project, the fireplace. Here it is in Nov. 2010 -- a huge mess but notice the fire? I was working doing demo and got cold LOL.



Here it is this week, not done but close, still have an antique, yellow heart pine mantel to install and the wood stove needs to be installed. The bricks are antique from our former home (same one the mantel came from) except the ones in the firebox, those are fire bricks.



Here is the room when I got done pulling down the drywall and taking out the windows in March 2011



Here is the same shot this week

Very nice. That is along the lines of what we wish we hyad.

[RebelDigger]

Waterwheel, I got done posting and saw your pics and had to come back and say WOW! What an awesome place! Beautiful! Is the wheel functional? That is too, too cool.

[RebelDigger]

Originally Posted by BobbyB

Very nice. That is along the lines of what we wish we hyad.

Thank you. I love old farmhouses but they are getting hard to find, so many folks tear them down and build new. People thought we were insane when we bought this place LOL. At times, to be honest I felt insane, this was a way different restoration than the Victorian we had before.

[BobbyB]

Originally Posted by RebelDigger

Thank you. I love old farmhouses but they are getting hard to find, so many folks tear them down and build new. People thought we were insane when we bought this place LOL. At times, to be honest I felt insane, this was a way different restoration than the Victorian we had before.

Id do it in a minute if I could. There are some old Alsatian places around that would be good projects, but, the heirs in most cases just moved over and built new and left the original home to fall in or be used as barns. ( most of the country here was settled by a group of Alsatians led by Henri Castro in the 19th century. )

I was hauling corn off a farm a few weeks ago and took pics for my wife of an old Alsatian house that is solid, just needs floors and windows and such as the original had been removed for the lumber.

Again, I like your house.

[Waterwheel Farm]

Thanks everybody. I really enjoy getting to see glimpses of other folks places. So much imagination, and I have to admit I copy alot of the ideas I see on here. Rebel, the water wheel turns, but it's currently not driving anything. The spring that drives the wheel runs too slow in late summer to do much with it, but I like watching it spin. I mainly use it for get togethers and campouts. It has three floor inside so we'll just set up some cots in there when we camp out. I'm thinking of turning it into a "power out" house. In the event of an extended power outage it would be a lot easier to heat in cold weather, and I'm also going to install a modern version of an outhouse. There's a spring above that I'm going to gravity feed water to supply a toilet and sink for washing hands. It's on my list of want-to-do's, but like everybody I also have a list of have-to-do's.

[BobbyB]

Originally Posted by Waterwheel Farm

I'm going to try a couple pics from this morning if I don't mess it up.

I love that house. The pic looks like a Christmas card.

[LisaInN.Idaho]

[quote=Waterwheel Farm;6350627]I'm going to try a couple pics from this morning if I don't mess it up.



Absolutely beautiful!

[RebelDigger]

Originally Posted by Waterwheel Farm

Thanks everybody. I really enjoy getting to see glimpses of other folks places. So much imagination, and I have to admit I copy alot of the ideas I see on here. Rebel, the water wheel turns, but it's currently not driving anything. The spring that drives the wheel runs too slow in late summer to do much with it, but I like watching it spin. I mainly use it for get togethers and campouts. It has three floor inside so we'll just set up some cots in there when we camp out. I'm thinking of turning it into a "power out" house. In the event of an extended power outage it would be a lot easier to heat in cold weather, and I'm also going to install a modern version of an outhouse. There's a spring above that I'm going to gravity feed water to supply a toilet and sink for washing hands. It's on my list of want-to-do's, but like everybody I also have a list of have-to-do's.

That is awesome that it still turns. What was it? A mill? My grandma told me stories of taking her corn to a mill with a wheel like that up in Collierville, TN back in the day to get it ground into cornmeal. I also love your log house, it looks like something out of a Currier and Ives print.

[OUVickie]

Wow, everyone's pics are so inspiring. Our place is beautiful to me, but needs alot of work. It's definitely in progress. Thanks to you all for the inspiration, it gives me renewed hope!!

[green5acres]

Love your house the best!!! My dream home!waterwheels

[CJ]

We are starting over... AGAIN, and I just recently posted on my blog about the land we bought this spring. DH had to go out of state to work this year, so progress on the road in came to a halt. We hope to start work on the road again in January, and hopefully a shop built, utilities in and our house on the market by this time in 2013 so we can start building the house!
Pictures here.

[Mattemma]

You all have beautiful homes.Thanks for posting.I found this forum when
I did a search for people who had John Seymour yards.
Turned up a thread in these forums.Enjoying the posts.

[moorethemerrier]

Love seeing how diverse the group is! I've only got links to links my FB farm and daycare pages to share:

https://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/...=photos_albums

https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-M...=photos_albums

[braggscowboy]

Waterwheel Farms, any pics of the inside?