White Cottage Farm – The Unseen Footage Pt. 1

I shared on my Instagram stories a few days ago about how there are so many places in our  1800’s farmhouse that I never show you guys. There’s basically the whole upstairs the laundry room, the guest bedroom, our master bedroom, all of our bathrooms, and one very large hallway upstairs that I’ve really never shown on the blog because we haven’t done anything to those spaces yet and they’re just not my favorite. And let’s face it they’re mostly all a mess. So, today I thought I would start a new series here on the blog called white cottage farm ‘the unseen footage’ where I share things that you don’t usually see in my every day blog posts and social media posts whether it’s rooms that we are not currently working on, rooms that haven’t been touched since the 1980s, or just parts of the farm that you haven’t seen yet that I thought that you might enjoy. Today I thought we would start in the upstairs hallway. It may seem like an unlikely place to start or a really uneventful area of the home, but it’s actually one of my favorite places in this house for many reasons…

This hallway is what you see when you come up the stairs to the second level of our farmhouse from the front entryway and the front living room. It connects the bedrooms and the bathrooms. When you walk up the stairs you pass my favorite mora clock as you climb the carpeted stairs that are now stained & ready to be ripped up. The first thing you are greeted with when you get to the top is some windows with a beatiful view of the farm & a whole lot of wall paper. First of all, I love how long of a hallway this is. Want to know why I really love it? Because I see the potential in it. I see what it could look like. Honestly this is the one area right now that I don’t mind the wall paper. Paired with the lights I think it’s charming. I imagine the history this part of the house had since the 1840’s when it was built & I kind of wish I knew what it looked like in its original state. But one day I see it lined in shiplap or another wall treatment in a bright white with farmhouse style lights mounted to the walls. I see our kids running down the hallway from their bedroom to ours. I see it all & I love it. This area is going to be one crazy before and after project when we finally get to it.

 

 

 

 

 

The funny part about this space is when the painters were here to paint the front living room that is right at the bottom of these stairs they moved up into this space as well and painted the railings which now look totally out of place up here being bright white. As you go down the stairs you will walk into the front living room, the front entryway & the stairs lead directly towards the dining room as shown here…

So, there is today’s “unseen footage” of White Cottage Farm. It’s very floral & I can’t wait to put our touches on it. & did you catch that room at the end of the hallway with the blue carpet? That’s more unseen footage for another day…I truly hope this new series gives you a new perspective on the farm we live on, gets you excited for future projects, & let’s you know what’s beyond all those normal shots I’m sharing daily with you guys. Thank you guys for stopping by the blog today. I hope you enjoy this new series to really get behind the scenes & get a glimpse beyond the pretty footage I’m usually showing. Let me know what you think in the comments below, find me on Facebook & chat with me on Instagram. Xx

 

Come take a video tour of what our farmhouse look like before when we first moved in…

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