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The Stone House

Main Entrance

The main entrance to the home features brick sidewalks, a traditional split stone stairs, double doors in Charleston Green, custom lighting and an antique Swiss fountain from 1825 grace the main entrance. Stone is from the Shenandoah Valley. A team of stonemasons worked almost two months to do the stonework on the stone house, stone bridge, and extensive stone retaining wall between the house and pastures.

Foyer

The spacious foyer creates an elegant environment for welcoming guests. It features:

  • Raised paneled walls
  • Large art niche with custom lighting
  • Custom circular staircase to lower floor
  • Customizable lighting from Home Works
  • Elevator 
  • Wide plank reclaimed oak flooring
  • Antique European bronze chandelier and sconces 
  • Coat closet

Gallery

A gallery runs the length of the main house providing access to both the cottage (i.e. master bedroom wing) and the garages, powder room, octagon, and main floor garages. It features:

  • Customizable lighting system by Home Works that incorporates adjustable hidden uplights in the cove molding, ambient lighting, and wall washers enabling saved “views” for daytime, evening, parties etc. Art work can be meticulously lit.
  • House includes a humidity control system to protect art and antiques.
  • All walls above the wainscoting are backed with plywood to allow maximum flexibility in hanging art of different sizes precisely where you want it.
  • Raised paneled wainscoting
  • Wide plank reclaimed oak flooring

Living Room

 The Main House features an open design with living room, dining room, and kitchen taking advantage of the views over pastures and ponds out to the South Mountains. The living room features:

  •  Tall clerestory ceilings bring in extra light and expansive views of the ponds, pastures, and South Mountains
  • Hand crafted floor to ceiling Shenandoah Valley stone fireplace with oversized, high-output gas fireplace that conveniently ignites and turns off via a wall switch
  • Custom draperies featuring Robert Allen fabric with Brimar bullion fringe. The draperies flanking the fireplace are also Robert Allen fabric.
  • Wide board reclaimed oak floors

 

Dining Room

The Dining Room is distinguished from the kitchen and living room areas by a tray ceiling. The living room features:

  • Built in china hutches connected to the Homeworks Lighting system
  • Antique European bronze chandelier 
  • Custom draperies featuring Pindler & Pindler fabric with Kasmir Gimp trim and Pindler & Pindler sheers.  
  • Wide board reclaimed oak floors

 

Kitchen

A chef’s dream, the kitchen features every amenity a family could want including:

  • Viking system with commercial hood that includes warming lights, a high-octane wok burner, four burners,  griddle and two ovens.  Custom marble stove backsplash
  • Subzero refrigerator
  • Viking warming oven
  • Miele Dishwasher
  • Custom Cabinetry by Jaeger & Ernst
  • Farmhouse sink
  • Center island with marble top
  • Custom London shade valences featuring World linen fabric with Kravet banding.  
  • Stone floors
  • Homeworks Custom Lighting

 

Butlers Pantry

Across the gallery from the kitchen is easy access to a Butlers Pantry featuring extensive storage for:

  • Bosch dishwasher
  • Jaeger & Ernst custom cabinetry providing extensive storage for glassware, cookbooks, serving platters, and hollow ware
  • Coffee bar built-in coffee mug display
  • Deep sink
  • Extensive storage
  • Homeworks Lighting System
  • Reclaimed Wood Flooring

 

Main Pantry

Next to the a Butlers Pantry is the main pantry featuring:

  • Second Refrigerator Freezer
  • Jaeger & Ernst custom cabinetry providing extensive storage for linens, china and dishware collections, pantry items and cleaning supplies
  • Custom linen storage so tablecloths may store wrinkle-free over rolls
  • Extensive storage 
  • Build it, locked silver cupboard lined with tarnish resisting cloth
  • Cleaning cupboard
  • Reclaimed Wood Flooring

 

Sunporch

Next to the kitchen the sun porch offers convenience and the delight of al fresco dining with roll-down screens on demand. The grist mill fountain in the pocket garden below the sunporch provides a gentle background to the sound of birds and bull frogs.

  • Two-story windows overlooking ponds, pastures, and barns also provide natural light for the attic that runs the full length of the stone house.
  • Built-in corner fir corner cupboard to provide storage and complement the fir trim on the custom windows and exposed beams
  • High-output gas fireplace with country French mantle
  • Custom Scalamadre dress panels with sheers
  • Antique Terra Cotta floor tiles from France
  • Hose bib to make watering indoor plants convenient.

 

Powder Room

Just off the gallery and convenient to the great room is a charming powder room. The room is papered in Stroheim & Romann ‘Pastoral Symphony 7542E-0038. Toto toilet. 

Wine Cellar

Just off the Gallery is the wine cellar featuring built in cooling, antique terra cotta floors, and light blocking curtains. The wine cellar also offers access to the attic via a “winder” staircase.

 

     

    Carnotzet/Family Room

    Carnotzet is a Swiss word referring to a cozy, interior room with a fire and often, raclette or fondue is served. At Someday Farm this room serves large groups for seated meals and is one of the most striking in the entire project:

    • Tulikivi fireplace in soapstone that runs through all three floors in the heart of the home. This gentle wood heat only needs to be fed twice per twenty four hours. It also features a pizza/wood-firec oven for those who love baking.
    • Breathtaking custom circular staircase connecting the guest rooms, home office/bedroom, and family room to the main entry.
    • Handmade “cobble-oak” flooring similar to that seen in European outbuildings. Each square was painstakingly crafted and stained by hand from oak cut in the Graves Mill valley. The floor is dry-laid and very easy maintenance and makes a striking complement to the custom circular staircase.

     

    Guest Suites

    There are two guest suites off the Carnotzet offering everything your visitors could wish:

    • Shared kitchenette and laundry facilities
    • Shared family room with TV and computer hookup
    • Private flagstone patio with Medici marble fountain and retractable awnings. The patio also offers direct line propane for grilling and is frequently used for outdoor dining even when guests aren’t in residence. The patio is separated from pastures by an invisible (from the patio) stone wall or “hâ-hâ” and offers an unobstructed view of the main pond and south mountains.
    • Each bedroom has an ensuite bathroom and closet.

    Bedroom/Office with Powder Room

    Off the Carnotzet is a large home office featuring:

    • High-output fireplace
    • Computer hookup
    • Private flagstone patio with a view over the pond to the south mountains.  Patio has a retractable awning.
    • Powder room featuring pewter sink
    • Anti-room sized for file cabinets

    Attic

    Off the wine cellar and accessible by elevator is a finished attic.

    • Linoleum flooring
    • Climatized
    • Windows looking over sunporch allow natural light into the space