This site is about my life as a farmgirl, wife, mother and grandmother. We have a beautiful granddaughter and the cutest grandson. We own two farms in Craig County Virginia, leasing one and raising beef cattle on the other.
My New Family Room
Now that the addition on the house is no longer a bedroom but a family room I’m working on creating a cozy family room. It’s not a large space but it allows us to entertain in a cooler environment away from the wood stove in the main living area. I want to keep it warm, friendly, country and “my style” and will turn the main living area into a man-cave type decor so that all of hubby’s friends that visit can sit around comfortably and admire his trophies and talk of old times. The man really is a hunter first and farmer second. The man-cave reveal will be in another post and today I’ll show what I have to work with and what I have completed so far.
It’s a long narrow room with lots of light.Exterior door that’s not used much in the winter but open a lot in warm weather.This room is right off the kitchen with a large closet on the left that will store our winter coats and outer apparel of our guests.There are two small windows on the south wall that let in lots of light.
Most all of that furniture has been removed and I’ve done the following arrangements for now. I want to add lots of seating that’s easily arranged so that when little brother comes for weekend visits I can bring out a fold away bed or futon.
Clean walk through to kitchen.Entertainment center with lots of shelving and little nooks.Seating for three so far.Shelving for our huge assortment of DVD’s.Simple and warm but wait until I add my country touch to everything.
View into room from kitchen.
Some rugs and wall decor makes a world of difference. I want to add a futon or small sleep sofa and some hassocks because when the whole family is here, we need the seating. Not too bad for a country girl using hand me downs and years of family treasures!
I am a wife, mother, and grandmother that lives on a farm in Craig County, Virginia and I am retired. I love to cook, read, quilt, craft, garden, hunt and take long walks in the woods. I have one gorgeous teen granddaughter, a wonderful little grandson and two beautiful and caring children, boy & girl.
I've been married to my farmer husband for 46 years and he's the "love of my life"!!
I love doing things the "old" way such as canning, making maple syrup & cider, handcrafts and baking. I've taught myself to crochet, embroider, and quilt with help from my paternal grandmother. I could read until the cows come home.
We live off the products we raise and hunt for the most part. We run 75 head of cattle on our farm, 30 chickens, three rabbits and one dog. I help my husband with the cattle, feeding the livestock, hauling in firewood, fence repair, and general maintenance on the farm.
I was a stay-at-home mom to my children and then went to work when they finished high school. I was a cook at a School for At-Risk Teens and part-time substitute teacher. Then I started work at our local Farm Bureau and stayed there for 17 years. I worked at Virginia Tech for almost five years and decided to take early retirement in July of 2015. NOW, I'm a full-time farmwife and loving every minute of it!
I love to read fiction and the Bible. I'm currently hooked on quilting novels and Annie's Attic mysteries.
I started this blog in 2011 and have met so many interesting bloggers and have kept up with my friends through my blog.
I love to hunt with my bow and rifle and with a camera. We hunt to fill the freezer and cellar but would never kill anything for the fun of it.
I have friends and family all over the United States. Some of my ancestry last names are Bradley, Dickson, Hylton, and Rose.
I've lost both of my parents to brain cancer and miss them very much. I have one sister and four living brothers. I was raised in Paint Bank VA and moved to New Castle VA when I married. I went to school in Waiteville, WV, Gap Mills, WV and New Castle Va with a short semester of college at Virginia Western Community College in Roanoke VA.
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6 thoughts on “My New Family Room”
It looks wonderful thus far and enjoy it as you go along! 🙂
Thanks so much! I really do enjoy decorating and making my own, even more, when I can re-purpose (love that word) something old!! I have truly enjoy your blog and look forward to your new adventures every day.
Thank you!! It’s a work in progress and I took my rug loom in there last night. I have a basket/tote with crocheting by one chair and one of cross-stitch at another. I want to make a farm themed quilt for the wall between the window and DVD case and the wall at the exterior door is going to be a family portrait wall with pictures of the kids, us, our parents and grandparents. I’ve got the frames for them and I’m ready to enlarge and print them from my computer but waiting on the mattes to come in. I’ll probably put an antique couch table or bench under the photo wall with country displays on it. I love decorating.
I wish I had it full of toys for grandchildren but Victoria has turned 16 and really hard to entertain now. I wish I had a house full of grandchildren.
This is the blog for our little farm in Skagit county. Here we have Shetland sheep and Nigerian Dwarf goats. In addition we have donkeys, cattle, pigs, chickens, geese, and peafowl. The blog describes the weekly activities here.
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It looks wonderful thus far and enjoy it as you go along! 🙂
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Thanks so much! I really do enjoy decorating and making my own, even more, when I can re-purpose (love that word) something old!! I have truly enjoy your blog and look forward to your new adventures every day.
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looks good! at my house that room turned into a toy room…but we still have a recliner and love seat in there.
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Thank you!! It’s a work in progress and I took my rug loom in there last night. I have a basket/tote with crocheting by one chair and one of cross-stitch at another. I want to make a farm themed quilt for the wall between the window and DVD case and the wall at the exterior door is going to be a family portrait wall with pictures of the kids, us, our parents and grandparents. I’ve got the frames for them and I’m ready to enlarge and print them from my computer but waiting on the mattes to come in. I’ll probably put an antique couch table or bench under the photo wall with country displays on it. I love decorating.
I wish I had it full of toys for grandchildren but Victoria has turned 16 and really hard to entertain now. I wish I had a house full of grandchildren.
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Your home looks lovely – a credit to you.
Colin
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Thank you Colin! It’s a work in progress but hope to have it completed by the end of March.
I’m glad you are following my blog. Do you have one?
Rita
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