Come Inside This Old New England Beauty Built In 1802

[@anniep9323]

This was my best friends home . She passed . I was lucky to get to stay there it was so beautiful! ❤❤❤

[@susanpage8315]

It’s gorgeous!

[@carmenm.4091]

Sorry for your loss. Besties are precious.

[@cindyk4294]

If I were to guess, the bedroom doesn’t have wallpaper…it’s stenciled. Beautiful place. Love your site.

[@cathybrown]

One of the best historic homes I've ever seen! I love New England! We used to live in upstate NY, Adirondack Mountains. We spent a lot of time roaming New England. Now, in north Florida, we never see anything so beautiful. I miss the changes of the seasons. Great video. Thank you! 😊

[@debby891]

We live in upstate New York, not far from Old Forge and love the change of seasons and history of our area

[@debby891]

Looks like stenciling in the bedroom instead of wallpaper, love the home🤎

[@megharper5077]

That's an exceptionally well-integrated modern kitchen. Very tasteful. One of the most consistent elements of the best, to me, of these historic houses is that owners have resisted covering floors with polyurethane.

[@canoedoc2390]

Beautiful home. The austere furnishings and the minimal use of electric lighting make it appear more like a museum than a home that is currently being lived in.

[@TheKoolbraider]

I agree with the person below: it isn't wall paper. It's stenciled, usually 1760-1840. Because wall paper was often too expensive, the owner would grab one of many artists wandering around. My friend had a house from this same time. The entry is gorgeous: faux marble, and designs. The living room had scenery. (BTW I live in Maine. The high school I attended was 1811.)

[@anniep9323]

The back room was the keeping room and the buttery . Also there was another room that was like a smaller buttery .

[@ginasrog794]

Beautiful house!

[@shellyswt]

That’s stenciling in the first bedroom, not wallpaper. I recognize some of the stencils from an authentic early American stencil book which I used on my own walls. They were copied off the walls of homes from the 1700 & 1800s. 😊

[@elizabethcutrofello2572]

Same for me😊 I've used many of the old stencil designs in my home, and decorative painting business. Living in Connecticut, I've been fortunate to stencil in these wonderful early homes. This was just beautiful, thank you. New subscriber enjoying your channel.

[@cindyredmon7473]

Exactly!!

[@auntbarbara5696]

Love to see the interiors of these beautiful old homes. Thank you!

[@eileennielsen5165]

Loved the top floor landing. Perfect colonial paint colors (typical) throughout house. That might be stenciled and not wallpaper. I don't like painted floors either. Miss my New England, my heart actually aches for it.. Thank you.

[@luciaconn6788]

I love this, all the fireplaces & wingback chairs.

[@barbieharris8079]

This home is a dream ❤️

[@bonniemiller9197]

Because i own some of those stencils, I am also going with no wallpaper. Stenciling was often done while the plaster was damp, That gave it a long life. Nicely done and appropriate albeit a little early.

[@veronicaroach3667]

Looking at the final shot of the house in a pretty remote location, it's hard to understand how people managed to get around in those days - horse & buggy I guess if they had one, which people owning a home like this would have had, if not a proper carriage & pair of horses. But the distances they happily traveled & sometimes taking days to get to their destination, is really amazing. We take all out comforts & easy travel for granted now, but life was so much more complicated in those days !

[@Michelle-qt4dc]

A great house ❤

[@Joe-e5i1e]

Beautiful

[@susanpage8315]

My son lives in NH. I absolutely love New England!

[@crosmas]

Interesting note about painting the floors is that although natural might be preferred it's not out of the question at all that they would have painted them originally. Some may hesitate to paint them based on believing that it's not period appropriate, but they did do it and the most common colours of painted floors have been red, yellow and black. They also used to paint chairs and tables those same colours although not to match the floor. If the floor was red then they might paint the chairs black for example.

[@firecracker3911]

Love it!

[@maryenright5793]

Great home, love the beautiful fireplaces! All the rooms are so tastefully decorated!

[@brendanicolay9893]

Love how you describe these homes. They are my favorite also.

[@anneheron873]

I think the bedroom wall is stenciled too. Gorgeous home,hello from England x

[@anniep9323]

Yes it was stenciled .

[@juleereeves]

Hello from an Anglophile in Texas.

[@anniep9323]

One more thing , this is the Abner Richmond house .

[@Mytriumph650pre-unit]

Beautiful home.

[@tundrawomansays694]

I’m wondering if the bathroom sink area was built into a shifforobe type of furniture or was built to emulate one? It’s just beautiful-and I’m binging on your channel! Thanks.

[@carencassidy2359]

Yes, you can get wallpaper that has a stenciled and distressed look and feel in this pattern. The best brands are made in England.

[@gailalli8086]

Fantastic job of all the owners who have taken such good care of this gem. The current owners have done a good job in trying to maintain the period of the home. I agree with not painting original floors. I’m not a fan of that. And adding a nice period painting over the fireplace in the sitting room would be perfection. I would love to have seen a claw foot tub in the bathroom., but love the vanity area they have created.

[@juleereeves]

Y'all! I checked out the Abner Richmond house online and learned that is a cemetery on back of aerial photo, and I found this info from website Buidlings of New England! The house was documented as having 19th century stenciling on the walls, which survived underneath wallpaper (go figure). The new owners have clearly given the Richmond House some love and care, down to the perfect paint color. The house was built around 1803 for Abner Richmond (1761-1834) and his wife Eunice, who purchased 92-acres of land here one year earlier. Abner descended from John Richmond (1594-1664), one of the original white settlers of Taunton, Massachusetts in 1637. About ten years after he built his farmhouse, the town of Ashford paid the Richmond’s money for hardship caused by laying out a road right in front of the homestead. This 1812 occurrence possibly allowed the couple to invest further into the property, where they converted some of the rooms into a tavern, which was later accessible by the new Boston and Hartford Turnpike. The turnpike began in East Hartford and made its way through Ashford before winding its way to Boston.

[@BrendaOsif-zk4fp]

Beautiful home, just think the bathtub was hideous. Sorry😔

[@dellahayden5606]

I agree 😢

[@laurenmallon4963]

house is awesome, dont need commentary, though

[@debby891]

Love it🤎🤎🤎

[@12snapper43]

The second kitchen is the summer kitchen to keep heat out of the main house. Do your home work.

[@dalhousieDream]

This house is huge! Wonder if owner was a merchant - or were most houses large because they had many children?

[@michaelhudecek2778]

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[@mthivier]

The faux finish on the front hallway floor was a big mistake on the part of whomever did it. It may have worked in a period Victorian house, but it really clashes in a house of this style and period, particularly since the rest of the house is so authentic and subtle. However, I supposed it wouldn't be worth someone trying to remove it, as doing so would probably end up damaging the antique floors even more.

[@susanpage8315]

The floor was likely painted in its early days. I have seen a lot of painted floors in historic homes.

[@juleereeves]

I'd remove it. I agree it is not good with this house.

[@lesleypook5487]

Wall is stencil not paper

[@juleereeves]

That front door needs some treatment. Natchez Solution - treat the wood if you want it to last,

[@nuthinmuffins5073]

In the aerial shot at the end: is that a little graveyard to the left? If not, what is it?

[@lisamdrake5696]

I came to the comments to see if anyone else noticed the graveyard. How I would love to read those headstones! ❤😊

[@surfrat8884]

2:15 looks like drying tobacco!