The Schoolhouse Menage | Our Novel Projection & Abode For Everyday Occasions

If you've been next me on Instagram over the lastly week, in addition to then you've been getting sneak peeks into our latest adventure. We bought an sometime School House!  It has been inwards the industrial plant since lastly Fall, but nosotros weren't certain it would truly hap until it truly happened, thence I kept it nether wraps until the papers were signed.  But now, nosotros are the proud owners of a 1 room rural schoolhouse solid inwards my hometown, Lexington, Missouri.

This is 1 of those places that I've driven past times hundreds of times in addition to dreamed virtually what I could create alongside it - in addition to every bit I discovered this weekend at home, many other locals cause got done the same thing!  When it came on the marketplace position inwards the Fall, I went on a long walk in addition to sentiment of 100 ideas (from b&b to bakery!), earlier I had the "ah-ha" moment.  After it came to me, my hear went running in addition to at that spot was no turning dorsum - I had decided to motility my entire store operations to The School House.

All of the production processing, packaging in addition to transportation volition hap from here.  For the past times 4 years, the fulfillment has happened at a warehouse, where I am 1 of their clients.  They cause got been swell for helping me grow to this point, but I cause got such an itch to, of course, "do it myself."  Now, I volition laid upward my ain staff to custom parcel my products inwards this real charming building.  I cause got thence many plans virtually expanding our offerings in addition to mightiness to brand every unmarried lodge to a greater extent than special.  I am thence excited, I tin hardly believe it.  How fun is it that all of your orders volition live coming instantly from this footling edifice inwards the country?!

This is the schoolhouse solid at dusk lastly weekend, when everything had a glaze of H2O ice on it.

It sits on almost 2 acres of solid reason off of a solid reason road.  I programme to cause got a big garden in addition to an orchard... at unopen to point.

It was built inwards 1914, in addition to served every bit a rural schoolhouse until 1956 when all of the local rural schools were consolidated.  For virtually twoscore years, it sat empty.  In the 90's the master copy owners of the farm on which it sits, renovated it to live a bed in addition to breakfast.  It has been empty for sometime now, waiting to live brought to life again.

The household unit of measurement did an fantabulous undertaking renovating it in addition to bringing it upward to modern standards, all piece existence respectful of its simple, utilitarian style.  The chalkboard in addition to most of the cut back is master copy to the school.  

The "students" came dorsum to the schoolhouse afterward the renovation for a reunion in addition to signed their names on the chalkboards.  How amazing is that?  They are even thence there, in addition to volition remain, every bit a nod to the past.

Here are unopen to of the students that attended schoolhouse here.  I dear to hold off at each 1 of their faces.  They probable walked to school, or rode a horse.  Many of the household unit of measurement names are even thence the same families that ain the surrounding farmland to this day.

The band!

The principal characteristic of the room is the entire wall of windows.  They are glorious in addition to extend almost all of the agency to the order of the 12 nutrient ceilings. 

The room is truly 1 big opened upward blank infinite - precisely what I demand it to be.

Off of the 1 room, is a kitchen that was the master copy Library.  The closet to the correct was the master copy bookcase.

The starting fourth dimension affair I did was supercede the appliances.  You know I cause got to cause got a functioning kitchen!  I programme to create a footling DIY update past times icon the cabinetry, in addition to replacing the pulls, faucet in addition to hood.  

I desire to live respectful of the history here, but I also desire to steward it into the futurity in addition to arrive useful in addition to give it life again.  What is improve than giving something sometime a novel usage in addition to purpose?

I've been collecting inspiration photos since the fall, in addition to but had a gut feeling of how I wanted it to look.  I dear utilitarian spaces in addition to programme to usage Shaker inspired pigment colors, article of furniture in addition to fixtures to arrive experience similar it should.  I don't desire to dramatically modify The School House, but I desire it to experience real country, but fresh in addition to bright.  The cut back volition all live painted this creamy beige (Ben Moore Marble Canyon).  All of the walls volition rest their master copy creamy white.  The moving component of the windows volition rest nighttime stained, every bit good every bit the doors.  

When I came across these inspiration photos, they were precisely what I had envisioned.  A utilitarian, solid reason workshop.  It feels create clean in addition to fresh, muted in addition to subtle.  It is seasonless - I tin run across it alongside vacation greens in addition to berries, daffodils inwards leap in addition to big bunches of oak leaves inwards the fall.

I dear the cream on cream woodwork in addition to walls inwards my home, but I am thence drawn to this to a greater extent than solid reason look.  I'm excited to cause got a identify to usage it!

I volition non live getting novel cabinets or countertops, but this is what I would create if I was : )

I LOVE thinking virtually the functioning plans for the packaging in addition to shipping.  I truly promise to convey our lodge fulfillment out of the normal "box" in addition to create unopen to fun in addition to creative things.

I would similar to pigment the flooring inwards the antechamber alongside a diamond designing - thence charming.

We spent the weekend there, getting everything ready to paint.  Here, my assistant painted all of the color samples on boards.

I had vi dissimilar shades of beige in addition to grey to detect the perfect 1 that complimented the low-cal in addition to the walls.

I sentiment this Crisp Khaki was the winner, but it dried to a form of bleh tone.

We took the doors off thence they would non live painted - aren't they beautiful?

Kitchen to the left, antechamber to the right.  We are doing a beadboard in addition to peg handling inwards the foyer.

This is the concluding pigment color for the cut back - Ben Moore Marble Canyon.  It was the perfect creamy, warm beige that wasn't also dull, wasn't also green, in addition to wasn't also pink.  Paint tin live thence funny.  Here's hoping I picked the correct 1 - it is existence applied every bit I type.

I'm excited to accept yous along on this journey!

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