I am in love with Granville Ohio

I have talked about Granville before.  Andy and I always talk about moving “out” there.  It is about 20 minutes from where we currently live.  It’s an old historic town nestled down in a valley, a University town with one of the best school districts in our state.

Every time we go out there we say, “why don’t we live here?”  Even our kids love it.

And did I mention it is closer to my husbands place of employment?  And since he seems to live at work at these days, every minute off of that 45 minute commute counts!

Oh and it doesn’t help when I run into Jeanie, a woman I met through Andy’s work a few years back.  I have posted pics of her house before.  Ok, well I guess I haven’t.  I thought I did but it looks like I just talked about it.  I will have to dig them up.  Very cool house!

Anyway, Jeanie always does a good job to sell me on Granville.  She has lots of cool friends, like Amy Butler, Amy Hamiliton, and Kevin Reiner. Granville is a town that is loaded with artists.

And due to above friends, Jeannie has been in Country Living Magazine a few times.  Which embarrasses her like crazy so I hope she doesn’t read my blog.

So Kevin, who is a designer- likes to buy houses and fix them up.  So when I was innocently looking online at houses for sale in Granville I stumbled on this one, and it looked familiar.

No, we aren’t going to move.  But it sure if fun to think about.  And you just never know!

How gorgeous is this house?  Have I ever mentioned how much I *adore* old farm houses??  Gravel driveway 🙂

Andy and I actually looked at the house next door to this one a few years ago.

Not only is Kevin an interior designer but he is also a landscape designer.  He also works for Country Living.  These are pictures from the spread in the magazine.

Both of these doors open up to the back- the backyard is big (1 acre)  and backs up to a wooded area

These doors make my heart go pitter patter.  I’m not kidding.

There is nothing about this house that I don’t like

Just in case you were wondering if it looked as good in the winter, it does

Love

I have always wanted to try the black trim on the windows but didn’t have the guts

Claw foot tubs make my heart sing.  Yes I would take one any day over my huge jetted tub.

The dark wood floors….  love love love

As I was laying in bed last night (after watching the Bachelor of course) I kept thinking “why old houses? what is it?”  Well besides all of the obvious coolness that comes with old houses, the trim, the built-ins, the character…  I LOVE the fact that people have lived in the house for a very long time (since 1890 for this house).  Raised their families, walked the floors with a cranky baby, did homework at the kitchen table, had good times and bad times.   Rocked on the front porch while watching their kiddos run around.  History.

This island look like barn milled wood- I bet it is

Another fave of mine- an open hallway

Clearly they didn’t realize that Eva is a girl.

Oh right, here is her room

Want to eat dinner outside?

I would be out here ALL the time.

Studio!!

Cathy, the house next door is for sale.  It’s time to move sista!  We can finally be neighbors!