After many years in search of such a project, We found this post and beam farmhouse. Originally built in the year 1790. With a big red barn on cleared land in the fall of 1996. Just two days before the previous owner, finding it to much work to flip this one. There was a lot of work ahead of us. Basically remodeling everything, Keeping the old chestnut timbers and any wood we could reuse. It took some doing re leveling the old sagging floors. Working in the coldest of New England winters. We used an electric generator for power. The hardest part was the demolition, all hand work and all really dirty hand work. Breathing 206 years of dust was difficult to say the least. Then came the remodeling,we rebuilt everything. Plumbing,electrical,heating,flooring, siding,insulation,sheetrock,doors and windows. We poured the concrete over the dirt floor in the basement (never gonna do that again!). We added a state of the art 12x32 foot commercial kitchen, With a cathedral ceiling that the lady bugs love in autumn. Italian tile flooring and all new shiny white kitchen cabinets. Now there is a sunroom off the dining area, And a big wooden deck behind the two car garage. We had an electric generator installed that runs off propane, just in case the electricity goes out. Which it does when the pheasant eggs are incubating. We got working on a greenhouse, attaching it to the back of the house. With wild life around all the time, some times a dear or two pass through. Today there were about thirty wild turkeys in our yard.