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"May you live all the days of your life." -- Jonathan Swift |
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5 Bedroom
We are also offering this fine home in a 4 Bedroom configuration for $1500 / mo...
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| * General | * Features | * Terms | * New Pics |
* 5 Bedrooms (3 downstairs, 2 upstairs, all with walk-in closets; there are two Master Bedrooms as well, one upstairs and one downstairs)
* Downstairs Master bedroom features private balcony and cedar-lined closet
* Upstairs Master Bedroom features glassed-in Sun Porch which could be used as a sixth bedroom, office, art room, etc...
* 2 Full Bathrooms (1 upstairs, 1 downstairs)
* Upstairs bathroom features huge old claw foot bathtub
* Newly remodeled Kitchen with natural gas range, dish washer & chest freezer
* Walk-in Pantry (with swinging door)
* Formal Entry-way (with French doors)
* Formal Dining Room with window seat
* Art gallery
* Wired for 5 phone lines & cable TV
* Bay windows in Dining Room and Master Bedroom
* Many leaded glass windows, storm and double pane windows
* Natural gas furnace with hydrastatic air cleaner
* Energy efficient wood stove insert in fireplace with glass and polished brass door
* Dry Basement
* Washer / dryer
* Auxiliary electrical system with gasoline powered backup generator
* Ample private, off-street parking
* Unattached greenhouse
* Nut and fruit orchards
* Riverfront and Mt. Baker view
PLUS... a detached garage / shop with concrete floor and 1,000 sq. feet of dry storage space is available for an additional $100 per month.
| * General | * Features | * Terms | * New Pics |
TERMS: $1,600 US per month for 12 month lease; no smoking in house; small pets on approval; $1,500 damage deposit, last month's rent and references required. Call (360) 927-3234 (local call in the Bellingham, WA area) and ask for Bruce and/or leave a message.
South Wing Entry at night...
A fire crackling in the Living Room
on a snowy morning...
The Dining Room...
The Living Room...
Downstairs Master Bedroom, looking east...
Looking down the Gallery into the
Downstairs Master Bedroom...
Downstairs Master Bedroom, looking southwest...
Downstairs Master Bedroom, looking
northwest...
The upstairs Bathroom with huge old claw foot bathtub and cast brass light fixture. Now has a shower too!
The downstairs Bathroom...
Looking down the stairs...
BELOW: flowers by the back door; the house in 1916 with the original homesteader's barn and old growth timber beyond; Mt. Baker at dawn from the Gallery.
A place of rest on the Balcony off the
downstairs Master Bedroom...
And in the downstairs Master Bedroom, there is a wonderful green world all summer...
BELOW: flowers by the back door; the house in 1916 with the original homesteader's barn
and old growth timber beyond; the view of Mt. Baker at dawn from the South Wing Gallery.
| New 2008 Pics...
Last year I took a bunch of snapshots of the place and my progress getting it ready to rent. People seemed to enjoy them, so I'm doing the same thing this year too... |
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A rufous humminbord feeding in the wild flowering currant in front of the house, 4/13/2008 |
Zoie the outside cat (who comes with the place) watching hummingbirds in the wild flowering currant in front of the house, 4/10/2008 |
There are a lot of old fashioned flowers on the place -- like these daffodils -- thanks to my grandmother, 4/6/2008 |
The Battle of the Hedge 2008; this year Alex and Riley didn't just trim it (like last year), they cut the hedge's height in half, from 30 feet in places to circa 12 feet, 4/2/2008 |
Flowering wild currant in the front yard covered with wet spring snow, 3/29/2008 |
Leeks, onions and lettuce transplants in the raised bed, 3/26/2008 |
Trilliums are up by the back steps; here's what it looked like one year ago today in Sumas, 3/24/2008 |
The new raised bed nears completion, 3/15/2008 |
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Purple and white violets in bloom in the front yard, 3/13/2008 |
Dwarf apple trees are pruned, 3/12/2008 |
Raised beds are coming, 3/11/2008 |
First irises in bloom along the driveway, 3/11/2008 |
Daphne in bloom in the front yard, 3/5/2008 |
Punk raspberries; they may look a little unusual, but these berries -- some of which are free standing (the raspberry equivalent of free range chickens) -- really produce, 3/4/2008 |
The house bathed in warm sunset light; it snowed on March 1 last year, 3/1/2008 |
New front steps, 2/24/2008 |
John is amazed at the work I'm doing on the raspberries, nearly two months ahead of last year, 2/23/2008 |
Mt. Baker at dawn from Sumas, 2/19/2008 |
First buds on the quince, 2/18/2008 |
New rugs for the Living Room and Dining Room too, 2/15/2008 |
New back steps, 2/13/2008 |
New runner for the Gallery hall, 2/11/2008 |
A fire dancing in the stove in Sumas -- and other pleasures -- on a winter day, 2/8/2008 |
Red holly berries in the snow on the driveway in Sumas, 2/1/2008 |
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