Comments on: southern comfort : the big house

By: Anna

Anna

In reply to Anna. And maybe I don't mean "languish", but possibly, lingers sweetly. Though languish could also be an element, as these houses can be sort of sunset boxes holding the dimming spectrums of evening on the walls and in the air for the quieting evening... which I have to say, then can turn sparkling, as the activities take on a restful enjoyment after dinner, into the late night.

By: Anna

Anna

This house is very striking. It seems like a truly “handmade home”!

It reminds me of all the best of a section of houses in Portland, Oregon, which is so much where all the modern, upbeat young people like to live, that I forget about the old grace that it all has. Spending time in those structures, whether a house or a restaurant in an old house puts you in touch with all those details from 100+ years ago that silently hold in the background. Old doorknobs and wood-on-wood meeting spots… Seems like the skeleton of the place is visible, in a transparency sense. Old Robin’s Egg Blue interspersed and the way the light languishes in those old spaces – as if to show a relic of when that *was* the main light, or even only light possibly, when the house was first inhabited. Those houses are made of real wood, warbily glass, cotton trimmings (especially flour sack cotton), and light gently moving through. Time seeps through, and the grass outside and any surrounding trees show the up and then down pattern of a repeating summer-winter continuum it cannot escape. The main notion these houses seem to radiate is evidence of a pace that gives a kind of peace.

Thanks for posting about this house and reminding me of these things!

By: Linda

Linda

omgosh !! I LOVE this post ! The home is awesome, the story behind it, everything !!!! Thanks for sharing !!

By: Rose L.

Rose L.

I can remember my grandma’s old house in Missouri. She had a claw foot tub in a small room off the “master” bedroom (small) but no running water in the house! She would heat water on her old stove to slowly fill the tub. She bathed once a week, standing in it to use a pot of warmed water, washcloth and soap to clean the rest of the time; It drained outside through a pipe. She had an outhouse, or at night used the chamber pot on the screen in back porch. No A/C, old wood burning stove for heat. Propane gas operated her “new: stove. Her indoor plumbing was the old pump (which you had to prime) moved from outside to the huge kitchen sink indoors one year! We grandchildren always felt like we had stepped back in time because we had all modern things in our home in Calif.
This was in the 60’s! I always felt that the outhouse moved even further away from the house at night! We 4 kids all slept on the fold out couch in the living room, mom and dad sharing a double bed in the one “guest” room (dad is 6 ft. 6 in). The house had planked ceilings like this one, and wood floors, and wallpaper.
It has long since collapsed, as is most of the buildings in the little town, Triplett, Mo.

By: Megan

Megan

I love old homes too. We have a few in our family, but maybe not that old. Close, but not quite. As for the table in the middle of the kitchen – I’d love it, if my kitchen were a bit bigger. I’ve noticed with old homes that they use tables more for food prep than counter tops. Some old kitchens barely had counters. They had stoves and sinks but sometimes as stand alone options only. And then the fridge came in and took up more space once people could have electricity.

I love history like this house. I hope they can provide the needed upkeep so that it can withstand the elements for future generations!

By: Deborah Moss

Deborah Moss

I have got a picture just like the one on the mantle above the spot where the fireplace was.I love the house in the picture .My husband declared he is going to build me a dogtrot house and I want it to be exactly like the one in the picture.Thank you for bringing back memories of my fathers childhood dogtrot home.

By: John Johnston

John Johnston

I’d love to know where this house is. A friend is working on a movie in Greenwood and they may need a location similar to this. Can you forward my contact info on to your friend?

John Johnston
Location Manager
Jackson, MS
New Orleans, LA
Los Angeles, CA

By: Rhoda @ Southern Hospitality

Rhoda @ Southern Hospitality

Oh how totally fascinating this house is! I have been known to stop and photograph old houses too. Nothing like them!

By: Kyle McGinnis

Kyle McGinnis

In reply to Mary Lil West. Ashley, while these pictures are amazing. I agree with mary lil that you must experience the weekend for yourself. Oh and the red shed is an old chicken coop that has been converted to two showers with a curtain seperating them. Its not paint but red shingle like paper covering the side. Still an amazing and wonderful place we of the baker family call home. 5b1 Kyle

By: ashley @ the handmade home

ashley @ the handmade home

In reply to Ginger. Oh wow Ginger. How sweet. Seriously a lovely story. And I feel your pain on wishing you could keep certain places tucked away. I recently saw a photo of my grandmother's home. It's the place where I grew up visiting...the place where Jamin proposed to me. It has changed, and I desperately have the same wishes.