Amish Homes

The community is Salem, Indiana. The two words that first hit me to describe this Amish home are “spacious” and “squeaky clean”. You’ll see what I mean in the photos below. This is also a quite “low” – or, in other words, plain or traditional – Amish home. In this case that means zero bathrooms. The area of Salem has more than one Amish community…

The barndominium is a hot trend right now. And people are noticing that the Amish are doing a version of this – and have been for some time. In fact, we’ve looked at many examples of Amish shop houses here – and even a barn-and-home-in-one. This one, on the market now in Glasgow, Kentucky, is a really nice example which, when you look at it,…

When you take the spartan exterior and simple furnishings of this Michigan Amish home together, “bare bones” certainly fits the bill. But that doesn’t mean it’s not a homey place to live. This is a pure Amish shop home if I ever saw one. From the outside it is very functional looking – unpainted metal siding. Inside there is a plain but (relatively) cozy Amish…

Let’s have a look inside an Amish home in the traditional community at Ellenboro, NC. But first – the Swartzentruber Amish came to North Carolina in 2015, becoming the second Amish community in NC (not second ever, but second at that time). Since then, the community seems to have grown a bit, but not at a very fast pace. When I visited there last year,…

West Virginia has become one of the “rapid growth” Amish states. It’s gone from three to 14 communities in just eight years. So it’s no surprise to see an Amish home from the state up for sale online (I believe this is the first I’ve come across from the Mountain State). As you can see it is an interesting style – low-profiled, and very long…

Now for something a bit different – an Amish-owned modular home. It’s not the first modular or mobile home we’ve featured (by my count, it’s the third), but I’d say it’s the coziest – hence the title. This one comes to us from Princeton, Missouri (Mercer County), home to a pair of Amish communities – one a good-sized one of over 600 people. Sometimes people are…

Here’s another simple but beautiful Amish home. We’ve already seen one home from this community (Harmony, Minnesota), which was one of the most attractive Amish homes we’ve featured here. This one is similar. It’s described as a “hobby farm” in the listing – a five-bedroom home on 6.5 acres. This is a Swartzentruber Amish community, so that means the home has no bathrooms. Here’s the…

This week’s Amish home is in the wonderfully-named location of Bliss, New York (Wyoming County). The area is home to a 200-plus person Amish community that hasn’t been there too long – only since 2019. It’s a nice-looking home on a large property – over 60 acres. Like the last New York Amish home we looked at, it’s another home that’s built for a large…

This is a pleasant Amish home in upstate New York. It’s got seven bedrooms, and two bathrooms. Right off the bat that tells you it’s not the plainest Amish group. And while that bedroom-to-bathroom ratio may seem high for a non-Amish home, for the Amish it’s about par for the course. The home address is Fillmore, NY. The Amish have lived here since the 1980s…

Here we have a neat Amish home in west-central Pennsylvania (Luthersburg). There are some really nice photos here – and interesting features to check out in this large-family home. I’m calling this home “plainly” beautiful because it provides a striking visual contrast. As you’ll see below, it has an almost fancy-looking, beautiful space downstairs – and very plain upstairs rooms. This is part of a…