A Country Farmhouse

I want to tell you a little story. It begins approximately 12 hours prior to the crashing of my laptop, around 9:00 pm on Saturday. I was holed up in Tiho's bed with a spoon, a cartoon of Rocky Road ice cream and my macbook, resigned to a comfortable evening of blog reading and movie watching, while waiting up for Tiho (who was at a soccer game with some buddies).

After exploring a few new (to me) blogs, I happened upon a blog called A Country Farmhouse. And, I ended up staying for hours, absolutely immersed in the archives.

I was instantly captivated by everything about A Country Farmhouse; from the stunning pictures to the beautiful writing, to the "theme"--the renovation of a country farmhouse by a husband and wife-team. I found myself dragging image after image onto my desktop to file away in my "home inspiration" folder.

At this point, Tiho arrived, and I retired my computer for the evening. Somewhere between then and morning, my laptop crashed.

We're still not sure exactly what happened, but it happened, and I have to live with the fact that I lost a lot of valuable data. I am disappointed with having lost my carefully organized "image folders," containing of all the pictures I find lovely and inspiring. I'd been building those files for several months.

Anyway, it's been a couple of days since all of this, and in the midst of packing up my apartment, I find myself mentally returning to A Country Farmhouse over and over again. I think the only way I can describe the blog is to say that it moved me, and now I am moved to share that feeling.

I am currently writing this on my old laptop, from 2003. I had it buried in my closet and we miraculously got it up and running--well, more like up and "chugging," but it's temporarily holding me over until my other computer gets a new hard drive.

I wanted to write this post, and share these images because they are beautiful to me. They exemplify a sort of indescribable sense of calm and peace, a sense that I hope to manifest in my own home (and a sense that puts it all in perspective, especially during frustrating moments in life, such as now). I returned to A Country Farmhouse in order to start a fresh "inspiration folder" in the form of this post. To me, this house is perfect in every way.

One day, I will have a home like this; a big farmhouse in the country, surrounded by mountains and orchards, where flowers cut fresh from my garden adorn each room and ice cold glasses of lemonade are sipped--lazily--on the wrap-around porch.

One day.


(all images via A Country Farmhouse)