Sweating Bullets of JOY!!!

Whew...it was HOT! It was Lovely, it was Magical, it was filled to the brink with some of the best treasures around, IT WAS the fruition of our Barn House Dream coming true...and y'all, it was Texas HOT!!!! First, we have to thank the MANY die-hard customers who ventured out to the country on a day that was predicted to be 100 degrees. We love you and we thank you!!!And we MUST thank Rebekah (Little Byrd) and Mrs. French (Bliss) for bringing incredibly delicious home-made cookies and taking the most beautiful pictures of the event and our little farm house (and sending them to us since our camera was acting funny in the heat)!! These young women are amazingly talented photographers!!! They make it look like we are doing something kind of special around here! :o) Check out their blogs for more pix. Somebody should pay them BIG BUCKS for this talent. We are going to pay them with some country cookin' and Mojitos in a couple of weeks. Thanks SunshineS!!!And we can't forget the renegade parking assistants Scott and Wade. We were supposed to fill these little bottles up with water since they were out in the blazing sun all day, but forgot. Ooops! We ALWAYS have to give a special thanks to the purple flower that's in bloom!!! Our little babies seem to have left us for new homes. We wish them the best with their new families!! And we REALLY have to thank our very special friends who accepted our invitation to be part of The Barn House Experience!! We love you and thank you for all of the hard work you have put into make this dream a reality for us. From left to right...Katie, Chrissy (Couture Junquie), Me & Joe (Barn House), Sylvi (Little Cottage), Susan (Couture Junquie), Debbie & Laurie (very close to deciding their name, but we won't spoil the surprise), and those not pictured: Cindy (Queen of Tarte), Natalie (Sparrow), Toree (Narrow Gate Antiques), Kim Poloson (Kim Poloson Studios) and Rob Kennedy (Rob Kennedy Photograpghy).

Joe and Jermonne
Barn House

OH, and the first Barn House Flea Market (July 26th) is going to be SOMETHING ELSE...AND, we are getting YOU involved in a little competition between the dealers!!! HEE HAW!! More to come this week!!!!

Will you even recognize us??

Still lots to do...still making trips FROM the basement with more stuff...still making trips TO the basement with items that didn't quite make the cut...still have to borrow the neighbors tractor to extend the parking area 'cause we ran out last time (thanks to you!)...and still...and still and still!

The Barn looks soooo different, I can't even remember what it looked liked for the opening. I can't figure out where all this new stuff came from...and we have still have Cindy coming this morning to cram even more in!!! It's looking good folks...I mean REAAAALLLY GOOD!!! It makes me emotional just thinking about it all.

OK...Joe is going to wring my neck if I don't get back and move all that stuff back to the basement. Here are some very rough pix of where were are at 9:00 am today....




See you tomorrow!!!!

J & J

Gettin' There...

With only two more days to pull it all together, progress is upon us. Sylvi put in hours today getting a lot done on her space. Her husband Wade built the "big elaborate structure" for us, so it was only fair that she get this cute space. The rest of us are sure to hate her for it too!

Joe was busy getting the entrance together today...

The talented Wade also made this table out of old salvaged pillars. Joe and I were tempted to try to find a place for it somewhere, but we need another farm table like we need a hole our heads. DARN IT!!

We are also incredibly honored to have Kim Polosen as one of our featured guest!!! She too has been hauling lots goods in this week. She is an AMAZING artist/designer/collector/etc. AND, we dare not mention our favorite Tarte...the Queen of (all) Tarte...Cindy Dockins!!! She is on her way Friday with lots of treasures too!!! HEE HAW!! We are just sad she won't be staying the weekend with us again. Apparently, her other gig is prohibiting her from being the life of The Barn House After-Party this time. This is a terrible injustice!!

We have NO idea where we are going to put all this stuff, but I am sure we will find a place. :o) More to come...

J & J

Barn House Sale - This Saturday!!

We had a wonderful time this weekend at the first Flourishes Flea Market. Outside of an actual bear rolling through and knocking over some of the displays in the wee hours of the morning, it was a beautiful day. Aleta has some before and after pictures on her blogs. Fortunately for us, the Barn House booth was untouched. I don't know if it was the garlic cloves Joe hung (to ward off any vampires), or the fact that he peed around the parameter of our space to keep the deer from eating our display flowers, but whatever it was, IT WORKED! Just Kidding Aleta ...he would never-ever-EVER pee outside at your place! But, we did have a little talk with Bill, your son and son-in-law just for future reference. ;o) Here are some more pictures of our space.

The Barn House Family has been hard at work here on The Farm getting ready for Saturday!!! Everybody has been out shopping like maniacs over the past few weeks. Joe has spent ALL of our breakfast, lunch and dinner money...Sylvi (Little Cottage) is exhausted from all of the shopping/sewing she has been doing...we saw Susan & Chrissy (no-blog-having-Couture Junquie) this weekend and they told us about the truck loads of great treasures they are bringing over!! Toree (no-blog-having Narrow Gate) called today and has also found some great items she is bringing. AND, we can't leave out our favorite "Master Primitive Finder" Natalie (no-blog-having-Sparrow) and what must be her under-studies and the newest members of The Barn House Family, Debbie & Laurie (no-name-having-OR-blog having!). They (Debbie & Laurie) came over today and started on their space and it looks Fantastico so far!!
NOW, it's just time for EVERYone else in The Family to get to work while I (Jermonne) am slaving away at my other gig!!! :o) This evening after I came home, I helped Joe haul all of the completed projects and new-finds out of the basement to The Barn...and out of the basement to The Barn...over and over like a broken record.

Good thing there is always the surprise of a pretty new flower when I get home to distract me from all of the hard (and I mean HARD WORK) that still needs to get done, or I might have a spell that requires some "porch time." BUT, this family works great under pressure!! And we hope y'all are delighted by the end result!!

Keep checking on us out for more pix of the progress this week...Hope to see you on Saturday!!

J & J

Weekend Jackpot...

What a beautiful weekend to hit the "Vintage Home & Garden" Jackpot! Saturday morning, we decided to cruise through the country-side to see if we could spot any good sales on our way to the nursery. After a couple of major disappointments, we stumbled upon a "garage" sale...that was not by any means a typical garage sale. We drove down a long driveway which revealed a beautiful old house that had a few small, very cute cottage-style buildings on the property. As we began to get into that treasure-finding-zone (some of you may be familiar with this), something seemed oddly familiar. As it turns out, we were at home of Rose -- we met last year at the Willow Nest Flea Markets AND most recently at our opening!! We got a tour of her house--GORGEOUS and full of a million Linda and Ludmil creations. Rose and her friend Rosy (who showed up too) are getting ready to open a store (Rosy Rose) in one of these cute buildings on her property. We got a preview of the store AND the opportunity to shop. Then her husband came home and took us into his studio and we got to shop even more! At this point, the pickup was too full to try to go to the nursery. Look at this incredible primitive cupboard!! We are trying our best to give Natalie a run for her money in finding great primitives!! ;o)

Next we decided to go to the Battle Ground Farmer's Market to pick up some plants. "Some plants" is a huge understatement! I am not sure what got into us, but we went a little crazy and ended up spending the rest of the day planting like maniacs. Shoveling and hauling compost around is awesome! ;o) Hopefully one day soon our work in the garden will be done, but that is highly unlikely.


We are not the only ones going a little koo-koo around here. About five of our hens decided to go "broody"...and for y'all city folks, that means five of our hens have decided they want to sit on their eggs for weeks to hatch little baby chicks. This is a picture of the first born. I have no idea what we are going to do with any more chickens!! Good thing our egg selling business is steadily growing...we to have to pay for all of this chicken feed somehow.

Shopping, planting and playing with baby chicks is not all we have done this weekend. We have also been working on getting the store ready for our next sale. It's looking good!! The layout has changed quite a bit, and LOTS of great new goods are being brought in on a daily basis. We hope our next sale is even better than the first! More to come...

Joe and Jermonne
The Boys of Barn House

We are back...

Geez, we can't believe it's already been a couple of weeks since our opening. Joe has been running himself ragged shopping like a mad man. That $$$ from the first event didn't take long to start burning a hole in his pocket. I think he was out early the day after the event to get his "fix." I, on the other hand, have been sitting on the porch (recovering) with a .22 pistol hunting the bunnies that are ravaging our gardens! Not really...that would have been MUCH more productive than what I have actually been doing on the porch (in recovery). BUT, I can say that it is exhausting to watch Joe run in and out of the house with truck loads of stuff to price...hence, more recovery time was needed and no new blog could be added (sorry).

Joe has been branching out of our neck of the woods with Natalie (Sparrow) and Sylvi (Little Cottage). Sylvi has some great pictures on her brand new blog of a few items she will be bringing...I know there will be more to come! On one of the excursions with Natalie (Sparrow aka The Master Finder of Primitives), Joe stumbled upon this table full of Ironstone and other treasures. Some of the Ironstone (the largest bowls and platters I have ever seen) are not pictured as they are trying to find a place in the Barn House "Home Collection." Yes, he really has an illness.

And even though it sometimes feels like winter is still upon us, he has been finding lots of old concrete and other garden treasures too!!

Thanks for all of the wonderful comments about our opening event!! We had such a great time that we plan on doing it all over on June 28th...with our featured guests: Sylvi (Little Cottage), Cindy Dockins (Queen of Tarte), Natalie (Sparrow--and one day she will get that blog up-and-running...yes you, Natalie), and Susan & Chrissy (Couture Junquie). And the baby chicks will be there to greet you too!!

Oh, and we are VERY excited to announce we will be vendors at the very first Flourishes Flea Market at Mt. Pleasant on June 21st!! Aleta and Bill's place is truly magical...the beautiful view of the Columbia River, the Historic 1800s school house (now converted into a home) and old wood gymnasium and barn (we have serious barn envy)!! We can't wait...thanks Aleta and Bill for the invite!! :o)

J & J

Thank You, Thank You, Thank You!!!!

If you came to our first show, we hope you felt the excitement, the love, the friendship, the emotion and the sincere gratitude. We also hope you found MANY treasures you couldn't live without AND ALSO left with a feeling of what Barn House is all about! And we REALLY hope we didn't scare anyone with the hugs!! :o)

Thank You!!

The Barn House Family

Four Days Until...

Progress is upon us! And yes, we will be selling farm fresh eggs too.
Barn House in the making! Still lots of pricing to fill in the gaps, but we are getting there.
It's rustic and it's primitive...it's a farm, not a museum. We often remind ourselves of this when we are trying to perfect what is not to be perfected. It's what we like to call "country-crooked" -- that's what Barn House is all about. HEE HAW! ;o)

More to come...

J & J

Barn House is Blooming

Everything is blooming! The lilacs have come alive, the Barn received a coat of primer and will be painted tomorrow AND the merchandise is almost all priced.
This is a VERY rough shot of what we have been up to this week. Slowly but surely, we are making progress. Joe and I put up siding from an old farm house as the "back drop" to our little country store. I should really say that it will be MY back drop behind the counter as Joe has made it clear that he will be in the store "answering questions and helping customers" (aka, socializing and partying while I am sweating bullets behind the counter).
Natalie and Lynn (Sparrow) came by and brought a truck load of goods today! I don't know where they find their primitives, but Joe and I plan on stalking them (mildly, of course) and following them to their source. EVERYthing they brought we want to keep for our house!! We are sure to be broke if they bring anything else. Exhaustion is upon us from carrying everything from the Barn to the house to try to find a place for it...when we should have been doing other stuff. This old farm table they brought back from Canton, Texas is hopefully going in our office (if we can get it up our narrow staircase--old houses are not always practical for getting large pieces in and out)!! Fortunately (for our bank account), our house is pretty full already and we can honestly say that almost all of their treasures will be part of the sale. DARNIT!!!!

We must have been Gandhi-like in our former lives, because folks from all over have been reaching out to lend a helping hand to help us get ready for our opening event. Could it be the look of panic in our eyes or the shake in our voices???!!! This is Nancy Schroeder who lives all the way in Mt. Hood helping us price today...while I was walking around aimlessly wondering where to start (a "condition" I have). We met Nancy last year when we were fellow Willow Nest Flea Market vendors. She is really one of the nicest people you will ever meet. AND her husband Art (a really great guy) owns a Painting/Remodeling business...he was here also today painting for us. Thank goodness for Willow Nest (www.willownest.net) and all of the wonderful people we met last summer, or we might be in a mess of trouble! And thank you Miss Linda and Ludmil for The Willow Nest Experience. We miss you and wish you were here to share this moment with us!!!

Thanks to everyone for helping us make this dream come true! Your generosity, creativity, blogs, warm comments and friendship keep us inspired and moving in the right direction!!

We hope to see you Saturday!! It's f-r-e-e AND we are serving up one of our favorite country goodies -- BUCKLE, BUCKLE, BUCKLE (ask us if you don't know about "The Joy of Buckle")!! Someone once said, "It will make you jump up and slap yo' Mama!" Figuratively...that is.

Barn House Grand Opening
May 24th - 8 am to 3 pm

J & J
Barn House

Pricing, Pricing, Pricing...

Just a little preview of what we have been up to the past couple of days...Sorry, Joe is trying to kill me...no time to chat!!! He has been working me, Sylvi, Natalie (Sparrow) to death this week. We haven't even made it to the basement yet. YIKES!



This is a preview of what Sylvi (Little Cottage) is bringing. She probably hasn't had time to start pricing her own stuff with all of the help she has been giving us. Some people just give until it hurts. Her Barn House Angel Wings are aching. Poor thing!

On a sad/happy note, we decided to part with our guinea fowl. Our neighbors are probably jumping for joy, as well as our chickens, turkeys, sheep and goats. They have the most beautiful feathers, but are quite the drama queens ... good thing Joe got a couple of handfuls of those feathers trying to catch them last night. We will have plenty of feathers and a permanent echo in our ears as a token of appreciation of the time they spent with us. Fortunately, they went to the wonderful home of an English woman who plans to "breed" them and sell their offspring. Uh Huh.

More to come,

J / J

Such a Pretty Mess

Two weeks to go and STILL LOTS of work to get done before the opening! This weekend we spent hauling a million wheel barrel loads full of gravel into the Barn and garden entrance. Now that this is done, we can begin putting the core structures in place and start on all of the "projects" that need to get done (like painting the armour in this picture).
Our baby chicks seem to be in love with the Barn House entrance now that everything is coming together! They will most likely be there to greet you if you plan on coming on the 24th. :o) The picket fence is about 90% complete. The Barn was power-washed and is ready to be painted this week. We WILL be ready...we W-I-L-L definitely be ready!!! Light a candle for us, please. :o)
Of course, we also got a little side-tracked. Some how, we made it to the farthest place from the Barn to start on a completely different project -- the shade garden. Who knows how this happened, but we even ended up making a little creek AND digging a pond (for some unknown reason). Yes, it's crazy...we know. We WILL still be ready!
The Queen of Tarte (aka Cindy Dockins) www.queenoftarte.blogspot.com will be a featured guest at our opening!!! She is an amazing artist, designer and friend. She plans on bringing her famous dyed ribbon, lots of garden items, ironstone, french gilded mirrors and candelabras, and linen aprons/pillows (just to name a few). Please check out her blog for more pictures of items that will be part of the event.

Cindy came by a couple of weeks ago and gave Joe a lesson making slip covers. This is one that she whipped together for us that will also be part of the sale. I just hope this inspires Joe to actually use his fancy new sewing machine finally -- hint hint!! ;o)

We will also be featuring Sylvi (Little Cottage), Toree (Narrow Gate Antiques), Susan (Fancies on 4th) -- and a couple of new-comers to this crazy world, Katie Ahrens and the amazing photography of Rob Kennedy!!! You may already know these incredible women (and Rob), but if not, you don't want to miss the treasures they are bringing! Photos to come.


OMG--there are a million of these gigantic totes of "smalls" to open and price!! One down and 999,999 to go. Because these dolls scared me (Jermonne), I can't be in charge of opening anymore totes...just in case there are more lurking around (LOL). Have you started lighting candles for us yet???

J & J

Three Weeks and Counting!

Lately, we have been up to a little bit of everything. Finishing off the vegetable garden, weeding, transporting flowers here-and-there, planting 30+ trees, and a whole lot of other "really fun" stuff.

Of course, in the back of our minds we knew that we should really be focusing on the Barn (inside and out) for our opening event...but it was very easy to justify playing in the dirt now that Spring is finally here. I think we had a bit of a wake up call last week when a few friends stopped by for a visit and saw the extraordinary amount of stuff in the barn/basement/studio/porch/driveway that needed to be cleaned and priced -- not to mention all of the incomplete "projects." Toree (Narrow Gate Antiques) said, "OMG, I would be in tears if I had all of this to do!" The response from Joe was classic. Without blinking an eye he said, "I can't even go there." Meaning..."I can't go there or I might have a river of tears running through the Barn, BUT, did you see my pretty flowers??"

Soooo, after pulling our heads out of our "purple flowers," we came to the realization that there were only a few weeks left and it was time to shift gears (just a little). The gardens will be lovely and all, but the store needs some TLC too! Fortunately, we work very well under pressure. Whether it's completing a home-renovation or some other daunting task, we always pull through (without killing each other in the process).

But sometimes, we have to accept a helping hand. So in came the Barn House Angels to save the day! Katie came to help with the picket fence for the entrance, Wade came for the much needed electrical over-haul, Sylvi picked up a tote of treasures to price AND our dear friend Brenda flew in from New Mexico to lend a helping hand this week. Are y'all worried about us or something??? ;o)
Focus,Focus, Hocus-Pocus! Voila...the lighting is done, the entrance garden is planted with Poppies, Dahlias, Irises, and much more! The fencing would have been complete if we didn't run out of pickets (BUT, our picket-making process is in place). The gates are up! This week the barn will be painted (if weather permits) and the windows will be installed. The gravel will hopefully make it in this week too. Magic is upon us!
Magic AND purple flowers!

J & J

Oh, later this week we are going to post some great pictures of items from the featured guests for our opening event. Visit us again soon!

English-ish Garden Entrance In The Making

I had to travel for my other gig this week and came home to discover Joe had decided to RE-RE-landscape the Barn House entrance. I have been told time-and-time again that the “Creative Director’s” ideas flow in this manner. It’s a good thing we only have four and a half short weeks before our opening. There is plenty of time to complete a few brand new projects by May 24th! :o)

So, today we dug holes for the gates and picket fence for the entrance. We purchased the gates from our friend Toree (Narrow Gate Antiques not far from us). She picked these up on her last excursion to England. Saves us a trip! She is having a Spring Clean-Out Sale on April 26th that you probably don’t want to miss. 12404 NE 72nd Avenue in Vancouver – 360-907-5814.
Joe has been a VERY busy shopper this week. Sorry Natalie, I heard he snatched this green chair right from under your nose at the Estate Sale in Camas the other day. If it makes you feel any better, a piece of it fell off when he got it home and now he has another project. HA! At another sale he found four very cool rusty iron chairs that will get burlap or linen-covered seats.
These are some other finds…
And more…
And even more!
After all of that digging today, I think it’s time for a nice, hot bath.

Have a wonderful week!!!

J & J

Hide and Seek!

I guess I haven’t been to the basement in a while, but Joe has been “sneaking” goods into the house and hoarding them down there. From what I can see, there are baskets, linens, pillows, mirrors, frames, beds, pales, dressers, chairs, garden hats and a million unidentified objects in countless totes. No wonder I am starving to death (but somehow not losing any weight)!!!

Stuff is even on the porch! I guess I got home a little too early before these items were transported out of sight. Caught in the act!!


The barn, basement AND yard are filling up for our opening event!!! We even have a few very special featured guests that will be bringing over some amazing items for the sale (to be announced). Good thing we have more property than we know what to do with. But we guess that is what a Flea Market (or two) are good for! Now we just need a mule to haul some of this stuff around for us.

With the beautiful weather this weekend, we were able to work on the back yard a bit. The pergola we built last summer finally got a coat of much needed white paint (3rd most horrible project year-to-date – right after #1 removing the barn ceiling liner and #2 fixing the chicken coops). BUT, this area is “Wisteria Lane” in the making (five purple wisterias and counting) and home of the official Barn House After-Party!! Won’t you join us for a good old fashioned country show-down???

Just try not to stumble onto any of our favorite purple flowers. :o)

Peace, Love and Antiques!

J & J

Barn House Opening - Vintage Garden!

We have been a bit obsessed with getting our garden in order as soon as possible this year. The main reason is because our opening event will be centered on vintage garden treasures. And what better way to enhance the “Barn House Experience” than to offer our guests a garden tour and home-grown veggies!

So here we were in the rain this weekend getting the gates up and planting the first round of Bok Choy, Cabbage, Walla Walla Onions, Garlic, Brussel Sprouts, Kale, Cilantro and an enormous amount of Sweet Peas. Hopefully this week we can get to the green-leafy stuff and some of the flower beds??

Joe has also been roaming the country side looking for other treasures. This week he found some wonderful old iron beds with the original railings AND box springs.

The barn is quickly filling up with all kinds of wonderful one-of-a-kind finds! Please excuse our dust…this is just the beginning of a little “magic” in the making. :o)

If only we could stop hoarding items for ourselves!! This is a picture of one of the corner cabinets in our kitchen. Fortunately, our personal collections for the house are pretty much complete…we promise to save the best of the new finds for Barn House!

Little Did We Know...

Call us naive, but who would have expected HEAVY hail, sleet, and snow after the beautiful Spring weather last weekend??? After the looooong winter, we just knew that it was a good time to get a head start on the garden! Fortunately, we were only able to weed and start preparing the vegetable beds, or else our little seedlings and plants would have most likely not made it.

This is a picture of three, very empty, bird houses near our shade garden. We should probably take note that it's just not quite time yet to plant the veggies...maybe next week???




The crazy weather could not interfere with "Stage 2" of the barn make-over. We rented a lift, bundled up, and started removing the old/crusty ceiling liner. Joe is comfortable climbing to the top of a ladder for any needed project. I, on the other hand, get anxiety even thinking about it. So this project was my worst nightmare. Every once in a while, you just have to take one for the team!

This was not a project we would EVER ask anyone to help us with--it was terrible. We had so much "stuff" in our faces/eyes/noses/mouths...it was ridiculous! But, we had some friends/neighbors who whole-heartedly insisted. Trent, Terri, Jamie and Skylar fell from the sky -- removing debris/other barn junk...Terri even joined us on the lift to cut down the liner. Sometimes we just can't get our heads around how generous people are!!

And after THREE FULL DAYS of working non-stop, we finished...we could barely move last night, but it's done! The the rustic wood beams against the exposed metal roof adds a whole new dimension to the barn.

Joe was so inspired, he made some really cool "lamp shades" out of old picket fencing for some of the lighting, and we hung a couple of bird houses that we bought from a local farm for any little nesters who choose to join our family. This weekend's project was the one of the first major steps in bringing our vision of Barn House to fruition. We hope to please with the end results.


After almost freezing to death (OK, maybe that's a bit dramatic) working on one of our most daunting tasks to date, we were rewarded with the sun and this beautiful rainbow. It was all worth it...without a doubt.

Spring really is around the corner (it HAS to be)!!!

Joe and Jermonne

Easter Weekend Crunch

With the beautiful weather this Saturday, we felt inspired and ambitious in getting a good start on all of the MANY projects on the "Grand Opening" list. First task -- tackling the vegetable garden in hope that it would be completely established, if not producing by May 24th. Well I don't know if we are just a little out of shape after nesting this winter, but we were not moving at our normal summer pace just yet. Fortunately, we were able to weed, fill the beds with a truck load of back-breaking compost/manure, plant several rose bushes and make it to the nursery to buy a million packets of seeds and a few vegetable plants. Considering the weather forecast doesn't show another sunny day for a while, we might just be out there in the rain this week finishing up!

Next on the schedule: Barn Make-Over! After spending two years in our home doing a complete interior remodel, as well as landscaping, landscaping and more landscaping, we would have never imagined what is about to happen to the barn.
This week, we picked out four rustic barn reds to test out for the exterior. Joe's usual motto is “better dead than red,” but somehow I convinced him otherwise on this one. We found some great windows from an old house that we plan on installing to give a little more natural light -- not to mention curb appeal.
And we (finally) finished giving the chicken coops a much needed “touch up” (new fencing and a little paint to cover some awful half-done blue mess from one of the previous owners).


Did we mention the TWENTY new baby chicks (Silkies, Araucanas and Bantams) that Joe brought home this week???? YIKES!!!!

That will bring our total to OVER 40 chickens – not to mention the turkeys and guineas.

Light some candles for us…next weekend’s project is our worst nightmare – removing the old/torn ceiling liner from a 3,000+ square foot barn. Wish us luck!!

Joe and Jermonne

P.S. -- We hope you didn't have turkey for Easter! :o)

Welcome to Barn House!!!

We are on an amazing journey here in the Northwest and have found peace and harmony on our little farm here in Battle Ground (Venersborg), WA. Just a few years back, no one would have imagined we would move from the hustle- and-bustle of Los Angeles to the country…not to mention raising Shetland sheep (Shug Avery, Sophia and Odessa), Nubian goats (Celie and Nettie), a few barn cats (who really think they live on the porch) and countless chickens, turkeys and guinea fowl!! This experience has been something we could only have dreamed, and we truly love sharing it with our friends and family.

During the past couple of years, we have been deeply inspired by the incredible beauty of the NW, as well as by all of the wonderful people we have met. Our 1933 farmhouse is evolving into what we call Barn House – a unique blend of American and European country-style living. Our desire is to create a one-of-a-kind shopping experience…somewhere you come to enjoy the day finding great treasures -- lots of primitives, vintage garden items and cottage-inspired home décor.

Please join us for a beautiful day in the country…shopping, eating delicious home cooked treats and enjoying the company of friends and family!!

Joe and Jermonne