Amish Homes

Look Inside The Graber Home (Video & Post)

Look Inside The Graber Home (Video & Post)

Several years ago we had a look inside the home of the Graber family, featuring photos courtesy of Don Burke (check it out here). I went ahead and made a little video out of Don’s photos with some of my additional comments on this cozy home. Don originally went on a tour via an Amish Farm Tour opportunity on their property. However, this didn’t include…

Inside a Cozy Country Amish “Getaway” Home (24 Photos)

Inside a Cozy Country Amish “Getaway” Home (24 Photos)

This Amish home is in the Crab Orchard, Kentucky community. One with more progressive notes but very cozy inside. Let’s have a look. Living room. Rustic cabin feel. That’s a serious-looking safe. Another thing I notice here is the hickory rocker. It’s something you’ll see in both plain and more materially-progressive homes. The plainer homes won’t have the stuffed furniture and recliners like this one…

Inside A Very Plain Ontario Amish Home (26 Photos)

This is the first Amish home I’ve seen listed online for sale in Canada. Amish have had a presence in Canada for nearly 200 years, the vast amount of that time only being found in Ontario. In recent years they’ve settled in three other provinces. From what I can tell this home is found in Huron County, in what would be known as the Lucknow…

Inside A Million-Dollar Amish Home (24 Photos)

Inside A Million-Dollar Amish Home (24 Photos)

Realtor Amy Burns recently alerted me to this Amish home in the Geauga County community which just sold for $1,050,000. Now as we look inside you’ll see this is probably the most “un-Amish”-looking home we’ve covered here, and I suspect this home is going to surprise some people as being Amish-inhabited given its interior appearance in particular. A lot of the design aspects you’ll see…

Inside an Amish “Barn Home” (17 Photos)

Inside an Amish “Barn Home” (17 Photos)

We’ve seen a number of examples of Amish “shop homes”, but I believe this is the first “barn home” I’ve come across online. Here’s the key bit from the listing: “The barn and house were built as one unit, having the three bedroom home on the east side of this large building.” You can see the layout from the exterior photo here, with the home…

Do Amish Homes Have Curtains & Shutters? (Video)

Do Amish Homes Have Curtains & Shutters? (Video)

One misconception that I see often enough is the idea that Amish homes don’t have curtains covering their windows. There is an idea out there that curtains signify vanity and thus Amish don’t have them. I can see the kernel of truth this may have emerged from (Amish tend to shy away from things that lead to vanity and pride), but curtains are certainly seen…

Inside A Nine-Acre Amish “Farmette” Home (27 Photos)

Inside A Nine-Acre Amish “Farmette” Home (27 Photos)

This is another home for sale in the Perry County (Somerset), Ohio community (same community as last week’s home, hat tip to John). So two things strike me right off about this property. One is that I quite like the layout of this property. It’s a sizeable though not huge piece of land (another “mini-farm” or “farmette”) at just under 9 acres. But the home…

Inside An Amish Shop Home With Storm Shelter (26 Photos)

Inside An Amish Shop Home With Storm Shelter (26 Photos)

This is a bit different than your standard Amish home. The simple box design and top-to-bottom metal siding is a clue that this is a shop home. Amish families typically build these cheaper structures, intended to be later used as workshops, as starter homes to live in for a time, until they’re able to build a proper home on the property. In the photos below…

Inside an Amish Home With Some Surprising Touches (26 Photos)

Inside an Amish Home With Some Surprising Touches (26 Photos)

This is a very neat and cozy Amish home in the Carrollton, Ohio settlement (Carroll County), with a number of fancier touches. It also contains several things that stand out as rather atypical for Amish homes, which you’ll see below. With the snow visible here we can assume the photos are quite recent – and this is a fairly new listing, having just gone up…

An Amish Farmhouse on a 100-Acre Property with Ice House (25 Photos)

An Amish Farmhouse on a 100-Acre Property with Ice House (25 Photos)

The location is Falconer, New York (Chautauqua County) and the listing has some beautiful snowy exterior shots as well as some nice interior shots showing a plain but pleasant Amish farm home. This home, built in 1910, was originally English and had relatively recent English owners, as seen most obviously by the electric switches and outlets throughout. The style of the place including the wallpaper,…