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House Share --
5 Room View Suite
for $500 /mo.

* General * Features * Terms * New Pics

COME HOME to one of the nicest homes in north Whatcom County. Located on the Canadian border in Sumas, WA -- just a half hour from Bellingham, WA, and an hour from Vancouver, BC -- this gracious heritage home is private and bucolic, surrounded by corn fields with a view of Mt. Baker from the Gallery and Sumas River frontage.


* General * Features * Terms * New Pics

THIS HOUSE SHARE offers these private features:

* You get the complete second floor 

* Total of 5 Rooms, including 3 Bedrooms, all with walk-in closets 

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

* Full Bathroom features huge old claw foot bathtub and shower 

* Private Formal Entrance 

In addition, there are these shared features:

* Newly remodeled Kitchen with natural gas range, dish washer & chest freezer 

* Walk-in Pantry (with swinging door) 

* Formal Dining Room with window seat

* Leaded glass and bay windows in Dining Room

* Natural gas furnace with hydrastatic air cleaner

* 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

* Owner maintains the grounds

PLUS... dry on-site storage space is available for an additional monthly fee.


* General * Features * Terms * New Pics

TERMS: $500 US per month, including utilities; $500 damage deposit; Wi-Fi High Speed Internet is free. Small pets on approval and additional depsoit; no smoking in house; 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.

Looking up at the Sunporch...

Your private entrance...

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Dining Room and Kitchen...

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Bay windows in the Dining Room...

More pics of the second floor suite
are available below...


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New steps for your private entrance...

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Looking down the stairs up to
the second floor...

Looking up the stairs at the South Bedroom door...

The East Bedroom with exposed
brick chimney...

Looking out the Sunporch windows...

The Sunporch with insulated blinds
closed for winter use...

The upstairs Bathroom with huge old claw foot bathtub and cast brass light fixture. Now has a shower too!

The view from the upstairs Bathroom...

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New Pic...

I haven't produced a Sumas Photo Journal this year, but here is a recent snapshot showing two young deer browsing in the front orchard along the driveway (before I chased them away for the sixth time)...


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...

A rufous hummingbird 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

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


2007 Pics...

Here are some recent snapshots I took while I was getting the house ready to rent in 2007. Click to view a larger version..

More ripe raspberies for the picking, 7/1/2007

Daylillies and apple trees along the driveway, 6/30/2007

Mock orange blooming by the house; my grandmother planted the mock orange, 6/28/2007

Blueberries are coming too (but still green); I ate my fill of raspberries off the bush again today, 6/27/2007

I ate several dozen ripe raspberries off the bushes in the front yard today, 6/26/2007

Wood Ducks on the Garage chimney with wild flowering cherry behind, 4/18/2007

Rhododendron from the downstairs Master Bedroom, 4/15/2007

Rasperries all tied up and ready to bear fruit, 4/14/2007

Wild, unruly raspberry canes, 4/13/2007

Alex and Riley trimming the front hedge (so you don;t have to), 4/11/2007

Flowers by the back porch, 4/10/2007

Pheasant in the front yard, 4/7/2007

Sunset over Sumas, viewed from the head of the driveway, 3/24/2007

Zoie the kitty examining late snow from under the back steps (Zoie is an outside cat who comes with the place), 3/1/2007


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