The house has an attached utility room on the back side, that was originally a back entryway to the house portion of the building. The stationmaster and his family lived in the building, partly upstairs and partly downstairs. The utility room now holds a large chest deep freezer, clothes washer and electric drier, food pantry, natural gas 150 litre hot water heater and several shelves for dry food, all of our wine making equipment, etc. and the 100A 120/240v electrical panel.
The south end of the house was originally a waiting room the width of the building, which has been changed into a kitchen with a narrower bathroom and shower behind, accessed from the living room. There is a wide open entry from the kitchen to the living room, which ends with a stone fireplace and mantle. Large beams across the living room support the secondfloor, and behind the fireplace is the master bedroom, originally part of the warehouse. There are some large diameter arcs worn into the solid maple living room floor from when the baggage cart was brought into the warehouse. We have chosen to leave those marks.
The fireplace gets its combusion air from outside, so it adds heat to the house instead of stealing it when the fireplace is running. I keep extra firewood under the front deck. The house is heated with a natural gas forced air furnace located in the north half of the building, beside the water pressure tank. We use the fireplace for effect when we have friends over on a cold night or for a great backdrop behind a couple of glasses of wine.
The dining room uses the bay window area, where the station master originally had his table with telegraph key, and at one point there were handles to run cables outside to change the position of the "flags" that told the train to stop or not. The kitchen, below right, uses a peninsula to separate it from the entryway, and we eat most of our meals across from each other here. Late model natural gas stove/oven and late model "French Doors" refrigerator with freezer compartment on the bottom. Narrower maple flooring in the dining room and kitchen.
The downstairs bathroom is somewhat narrow but works fine. When renovating I dropped the ceiling down 3 ft (about 1 m) to give it better perspective. The medicine cabinet is sunk half way into the wall so the mirrors are about the right distance from your face when standing at the counter. Mirrors on inside of the doors as well. The shower stall at the end takes up the entire room width. The shower curtain is not see-through, so I mounted some LED lights in the 'ceiling' of the shower stall. There's a heat lamp above where you stand when out of the shower, and it includes an external venting fan. Maple flooring.
The upstairs bathroom, below left, shows the existing tub, which will soon be replaced with an antique clawfoot tub. The rooms upstairs all have dormer windows, which add lots of character to the walls and ceilings. Below center is the same upstairs bathroom taken from a lower angle so you can see the dormer, window trim and angles. The height of all the upstairs walls is lower than normal but the ceilings slant upwards/inwards and it not only works well, but is part of the charm. My favourite room in the house is the upstairs bathroom. Original detailed wood trim on all the upstairs doors and windows, and all rooms have fir flooring. The one large room converted from 2 bedrooms has carpet on the fir floor, and it also has a built-in fireplace. This is my wife's sewing room.
The upstairs single bedroom, below right, has the dormer window just outside your view to the left of the photo.
We are selling our home and acreage because we are moving out of the country, ideally in about a year. This would allow me time to finish painting the outside of the house and completing the wine cellar in the basement. You have probably noticed some of the photos include our 2 dogs and we previously had a cat, but none of them ever smoked and we don't either.
I hope these pages of information and photos show you a bit about living in our home, on our property, and in this area of the country. If you have any questions please feel free to email me.... al@flyinghigh.net
Thanks, Diane and Al.