5 Bedroom Heritage
Country View Home,   
$2,000/mo. 

COME HOME to one of the nicest homes in north Whatcom County. Located on the Canadian border in Sumas, WA -- just a little over a half hour from Bellingham, WA, and an hour from Vancouver, BC -- this gracious 100-year old heritage home is private and bucolic, yet still within easy walking distance of the school, Post Office, drug store, restaurants, border crossing, etc.

In addition to the 2,800 square-foot / 2 full Bathroom house, this rental includes use of nearly four acres of surrounding pasture, orchard and wood lot.

NOTE: This property is ideally situated for children attending the Sumas Elementary School.

THIS FINE home features:

* 5 Bedrooms (2 downstairs, 3 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 walk-in, cedar-lined closet

* Upstairs Master Bedroom features glassed-in Sun Porch which could be used as a sixth bedroom, office, art room, etc.

* 4 of 5 bedrooms are newly carpeted, as are their walk-in closets

* 2 Full Bathrooms (1 upstairs, 1 downstairs) with octogonal tile floors and pedestal stinks

* Upstairs bathroom features huge old claw foot bathtub and cast bronze light fixture

* Remodeled Kitchen with new Jenn-Air 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

* 2 acres of pasture are available for horses, cattle, etc., with an additional fee.

* Riverfront and Mt. Baker view

* Owner maintains the grounds

TERMS: $2,000 US per month for 12 month lease; $2,000 damage deposit; small pets on approval and additional damage deposit; no smoking in house; last month's rent and references required. $35 application fee for credit/background check for all adults in the household. Call (360) 927-3234 (local call in the Bellingham, WA area) and ask for Bruce and/or leave a message.

NOTE: Owner maintains an apartment in a separate building on the four acre property.

Front yard by day...

South Wing Entry at night...

The Dining Room...

New Jenn-Air natural gas range...

Downstairs Master Bedroom, looking east...

Looking down the Gallery into the
Downstairs Master Bedroom...

Looking down the Upstairs Hall through the newly carpeted Master Bedroom to the entirely glassed-in, heated and newly painted Sunporch on a snowy day in January...

Octogonal tile floor and big old claw-foot
tub in Upstairs Bathroom. Works as a
shower too!

Both Bathrooms have white porcelin pedestal sinks.

The Upstairs Bathroom...

Looking down the stairs...

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.