Grandmas House A Florida Cracker House Built in 1925.

04/04/2024

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02/13/2022

I just realized I never introduced you to the new owners of Grandmas House...and yes! They are grandparents too! May they make many wonderful memories with their grands in this home like the generations before them! They already have it looking so homey🙃♥️
Please welcome Dave and Suzanne Malone if you run into them. They are new to our neck of the woods!

02/13/2022

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Charley Belcher visited Sparacia Witherell Family Winery and Vineyards in Brooksville.

12/07/2021

How awesome is this? This is a wooden carved fish by a local talent placed on a piece of the metal roof from the house he bought from us. Can’t believe the talent some people are blessed with♥️ So detailed!

10/13/2021

Took a walk to the back of the property yesterday. Not sure if I ever shared pictures from back there...maybe once with my grandkids. The cool thing about this spring is that at one time it brought water to five homes up here on the hill. They would pump it up into an tank in the giant oak tree in the back and then gravity feed to the houses. Way up into the 70’s and I think some were even in the 80’s before they put a well in. Love history! Thought I’d share that😁

10/08/2021

Warning: Long Post😳
When we first purchased this house we thought we’d fix a few things and make it a rental. It was our friends grandparents house and we hoped to make it something to be proud of. We knew we had our work cut out for us and it would take a bit...boy did it! After awhile I was spending more time at this little house than my own. I fell in love with its charm, character, how quaint and unique it is and also the neighborhood. By that time we decided if we made it a rental we’d be risking all the hard work and money we put into it. So then we decided to make it an air bnb so we could keep it and possibly retire here one day. Here we are almost 2 years later and we have finally accomplished everything I had set out to do to bring this little place back to it’s former glory. Over the past several months I had been setting it up for an air bnb and put a lot of thought into what that meant. Something I always wanted to do. But what would that entail?
My husband has been saying that it’s just one more thing on our to do list each week, one extra yard to mow, one extra house to look after, more responsibilities to tend to. We weren’t even going to get to use and enjoy it ourselves because it’s just down the road from home. But stubborn me just kept chugging forward with decorating and trying to make it as welcoming and homey as I had envisioned. It takes a lot to change my mind once it’s set on something but one day I was working over there and thinking about life and how short it is. So many people whose lives have been cut short lately. Thinking...What’s important to us? How is our time best spent? Is being this busy all the time how we want to continue?
Here we are at a crossroads... Do we continue on this venture or turn and go right.. after much thought, prayer and consideration we have decided to sell our place here on Snow Hill. A lot has changed for us in the past 2 years. Just like everyone else, we had a crazy year in 2020. 2021 has been a little better but still not what 2019 was. We have both had some health issues which the doctors tell us are stress related LOL. (I’m sure most of us have too much stress in our lives these days)
Having this house here as an air bnb for me would mean a distraction from family and my home and the things that are important to me. Yes! I would love it! Welcoming people with warm cookies and lemonade. Yes! This is a difficult decision! But having taken the time to re-evaluate things and prioritize our lives and our health and our family we’ve decided this is the right choice for us. We will reinvest the sale of this house into a place we can go away to unwind, de-stress and make memories with our children and grands that isn’t just down the road.
This isn’t what we had planned to begin with or even just a few months ago but it is part of our new plans for our future and I feel the Lord is directing our path. I feel good about it and a month ago I wouldn’t have said that.
I feel so blessed to have been able to spend the past 2 years renovating this old house with good bones. Not everyone has the means and time to do this, I know this. My husband knew I always dreamed of renovating an old historic home and he saw to it that that dream came true! I am thankful I can put a check by it on my bucket list because I don’t believe I would have the energy to do it all over again lol! I cherish the memories I made here with my grands helping me along the way. There were more dreams I had for this place but for now they will have to be enjoyed by another! I know a lot of people feel tied to this home because they also have made memories here with their families. I hope you all can understand our decision and value the stamp we have now put on this home restoring it and loving it also.
Thanks to all my followers on this page that were rooting me on and encouraging me the whole way! Y’all were great!.

10/08/2021

Master and Master Bath

10/08/2021

10/04/2021

Front Porch

10/03/2021

So excited to see the front fence going in! Lil’ David and his crew always build a nice fence😁

10/03/2021

Laundry Room

10/03/2021

We put new siding on the shed and painted it this weekend. So glad that’s done!

10/02/2021

Hall Bath

10/02/2021

Master Bath

10/01/2021

Front Bedroom

10/01/2021

Master Bedroom

09/30/2021

Kitchen

09/30/2021

Dining Room

09/30/2021

Living Room

09/30/2021

I know it’s been a while since I’ve posted. I am planning on posting a video in the next Few days. But here are some before and after pictures Until then. I’ve been trying to post these for two days so I had to cut a bunch of them down hopefully this time it’ll post.

07/07/2021

Interesting History of the Ederingtons, Snows and Mckowens (sp?)

Blake Edrington Bell and Andrea Hedick Read are inspired by the rich history of the Chinsegut Hill Manor House and rightfully so. Both Bell and Read are desc...

06/07/2021

Look what my sweet and thoughtful daughter brought me! She bought it first her house and decided it would be perfect for mine. Can’t wait to get it hung as decor! I have the perfect wall for it. Of course now I have to build a table to go under it lol. Thank you Shelbie!
I’ve recovered from COVID (Finally😩) and getting this place done! Trying to wrap things up over the next week or two! Excited to have it checked off my bucket list for sure!

04/09/2021

So I picked this up this morning at an estate sale. They said the grandfather was a furniture maker years ago and made it and hand carved it and it’s very old. I passed it up at first but couldn’t stop going back to it. It’s not really the farmhouse style that I have going on but yet it was such a conversation piece. I ended up buying it to see if it would work in this house. I know I am going to add pictures above it if I keep it.
4 people messaged the lady about it in the time I was there so I’m sure I could sell it if I needed to. Thumbs up or down...just curious what y’all think.

04/08/2021

Finishing touches...master closet Chelsea almost complete. So ready to be done! Lol!

04/05/2021

Finally finished this project. Well....I think it’s going to need a little sanding on top to smooth it a bit more, feeling rough....but close to finished!!

04/02/2021

Painting chairs and refinishing a table on this beautiful day!

03/27/2021

Thrilled with how this turned out😁😁♥️ By the way this is the 100 year old tin we salvaged from the porch from before we redid the roof.

03/11/2021

Can’t wait to see it all complete and clean❤️ Royal Pavers always does great work for us!

02/18/2021

While the flooring man was taking care of laying an underpayment to further prepare for the flooring I decided to take advantage of this beautiful sunny day and power wash the house and deck. If the weather holds out I would like to paint the deck tomorrow...no more pink and blue....we shall see!