Another great small house.. Adorable stone cottage!

[catherine]

Just saw this on Inhabitat. (http://inhabitat.com/nyc/green-country-cottage-for-sale-just-north-of-nyc-in-suffern-ny/stone-cottage-suffern-ny/?extend=1). It's not that far from me (1-1/2 away), and the price tag is very reasonable for this area.

http://inhabitat.com/nyc/wp-content/blogs.dir/2/files/2011/07/stone-cottage-suffern-ny.jpg

[iris lilies]

That is too cute for it's own good! Give us the link for interior photos!

the perennial garden has primroses, dianthus, sedum, coreposis, hosta, snapdragons to name a few. Nice garden.

[catherine]

That is too cute for it's own good! Give us the link for interior photos!

the perennial garden has primroses, dianthus, sedum, coreposis, hosta, snapdragons to name a few. Nice garden.

The link is actually hyperlinked above the photo: but here it is again!

http://inhabitat.com/nyc/green-country-cottage-for-sale-just-north-of-nyc-in-suffern-ny/stone-cottage-suffern-ny/?extend=1

[Gardenarian]

Sweet!

[Float On]

Very nice. Loved everything about that cottage...except the spiral staircase in the middle of it. For some reason I get vertigo on spiral staircases.
The gardens were great - so lush. Liked all the color on the interior.

[JaneV2.0]

I love the loft bedroom and the red chairs in the leafy yard--and it's affordable! I'd have to be hauled up the staircase, but it's a cute, quirky house.

[catherine]

I agree about the spiral staircase! That, to me, is the one big drawback. But I love the outside, and the greenery, flagstone, and mulch "lawn" and the red chairs. I wish a could get DH to let me install more gardens and pathways in the back yard, but he's a golfer and he sees beauty in the fairway look.

[Float On]

but he's a golfer and he sees beauty in the fairway look.

That in a nutshell is the constant battle between me and the husband. He worked landscaping for a golf course during his college years. He wants the perfectly manicured spacious look that would take days to mow and I want the cluttered English garden with lots of paths and no grass.

[early morning]

Oh, that is indeed an adorable house! I actually like the spiral stairs, so space-saving - but then again, I love climbing lighthouse towers... Of course "affordable" is different for different folks and different places, lol - I showed DH and he about choked. I guess that's one reason we live in "flyover" country.

[ApatheticNoMore]

I'd live in it. But not a fan of the garden or the front paint job, those would change if I owned the house. Like the red chairs, the red flowers and the trees (the trees along the walkway). The trees stay, much else else goes, front yard seems completely random to me. Spiral staircase is claustrophobic.

The price wasn't bad, it's approaching reasonable (it would be a steal here).

[happystuff]

It's cute, but WAY out of my price range!!! :0!

[rodeosweetheart]

It's cute, but WAY out of my price range!!! :0!

Me, too.

I used to like those spiral stairs, but that was before I was temporarily disabled and started viewing hte world through the eyes of someone who couldn't walk.

I can walk again, but I now rule out anything with too many stairs--does anyone else see this as a limitation for this kind of house? Like it's a natural for retirement, but you have eliminated much of your market with those stairs? So I would be concerned with resale, even at that price, but I don;'t know the local market.

Like the yard and the stone fence.

[ApatheticNoMore]

It's almost in my price range :(. almost to the point that the calculations they give on how much house you can afford start to make sense. Unfortunately I doubt that's the case for any houses here.

[Aqua Blue]

It is really cute, but I agree about spiral stairs. Beside going up and down them, moving anything upstairs would be a pain.

While I love the yard, it looks like way to much work for me

[onlinemoniker]

Speaking of stairs, I'm wondering what I should do about them in the future.

I am nearly 50 and not really thinking of moving now but as soon as I retire (hopefully, 10 years) I'm outta here! Not that I hate it here, I just want something DIFFERENT!

Anyway, I have WISELY avoided all sports my entire life and have not problems with knees, back, hips or anything else muscular-skeletal? Should all old people eventually buy a house with no stairs or do some old people (hopefully many) live to a ripe old age (post 85) fully ambulatory. I have no clue.

Any hints?

[early morning]

I read somewhere - maybe an old AARP? that unless/until balance is an issue, to stop using steps is a really bad thing. If you stop doing something, you lose the ability to do it - when we are older we don't retain that muscle memory thing as well, or some such. I thought I had a copy of the article in my file for DH but I don't seem to. If I find it I'll post it. My grandmother was fully capable of stairs, including hauling up wet clothing to put on the line, and spading her garden patch by hand - at age 93. My mother is wobbly now and we have closed off her stairs (she's 95) - but well into her 80s she was still up and down the basement stairs several times a day.

[Teacher Terry]

When we moved we decided to get a one story house. My hubby has bad knees so thought as long as we were moving it did not make sense to have stairs. My Mom did steps in her 80's when she would come to visit and her laundry in her apartment building was in the basement and she had no problems.

[jp1]

The stairs as you age issue can go either way. My parents moved from a house with stairs to a condo in an elevator building when dad retired (both in their early 60s) partly out of concern about stairs as they got older. A year later mom's ankle broke due to osteoporosis and it proved to have been a good decision. Even though they could've gotten through it at that time it would've been a struggle. Now, 24 years later dad lives in an assisted living facility (no stairs of course) but is still mobile enough that he could manage stairs if he had to (he's one of the few residents that doesn't use a walker).