Inside A Cheery (Nearly Empty) Amish Home (18 Photos)

I usually post home photos that show a lived-in space. But sometimes it’s interesting to see what an emptied-out Amish home looks like (like this Mississippi Amish home from earlier this year).

That’s what we have again here today with these photos from the atypical Amish community at Enon Valley, PA.

According to the description, an Amish family is actually still living here. So these photos must have been taken between families moving out and moving in? First the description, and then we’ll take a look at the home:

Amish Farmette with a huge house, barn and a few small out buildings. Currently pending subdivision to the approximately 2.5 acres. House is currently occuppied by the Amish and does not have existing plumbing or electrical in it.

It’s not originally Amish built, as explained in this next bit:

At one time it was a house that had plumbing with a bathroom and electrical. Then an addition was added. Currently has 5 bedrooms upstairs and a storage room. Downstairs consists of and open dining kitchen area with an enclosed pantry and a living room and 1 bedroom on the 1st floor. Home has a full basement with a hot water tank run off of propane and a shower.

As for the other buildings – don’t get too fond of the coop, or pretty shed:

Barn has a loft for hay storage and and then a few stalled areas and parking for the buggies, walls are lined with tack for the horses. Chicken coop & colorful shed not included.

Friendly entrance sign adds to the cheeriness of this home.

This is a six-bedroom, zero-bathroom home (though, as noted, it has a shower setup in the basement). So there is an outhouse in the picture here somewhere. In fact, looks like that’s it right there, visible just over the rail in this porch view shot:

And here’s a rear view of the home. You can see better in this shot how it sits on a gentle hillside, making for a nice basement entrance.

Inside the Home

Let’s have a look inside. Beautiful kitchen area. I think you’re starting to see why I chose the adjective “cheery” for this home.

Pulling back a bit to show how this kitchen flows right into the large main room.

The light blue paint used on molding, window frames and doors, common in some Amish groups, is one of the most aesthetically pleasing aspects of Amish homes in general, in my opinion. Notice the abundant hooks for hanging hats and garments.

Both the hooks and blue continue into the closet space.

Another sizeable room, with heating stove.

And another view of the same space.

Upstairs, the color scheme changes. We can already see that previewed on the staircase walls.

In an upstairs bedroom we see the mint green, or something close to it, that we saw in this New Wilmington, PA Amish home last year.

The Enon Valley community is quite near the New Wilmington settlement, and somewhat related, so it’s no surprise to find a similar aesthetic here. Meanwhile a second bedroom has a pink-and-green color combo. This was/is no doubt a girl’s room.

Green seems to be the dominant color upstairs, with the pink room the main exception. I’m more partial to the white and light blue. But seeing a second recent home interior with this green color, I am thinking it must be more common than one might think in some Amish circles.

Back outside, we see a view of a barn building, and some of the horse-drawn transport.

I was hoping there’d be a shot of the Enon Valley covered buggies and their unusual color (unique to this group as far as I know), but there aren’t any in the collection.

And here’s an aerial view of the property, which only takes in 2.5 acres of what you see here (basically a rectangle-shaped piece of land going back a bit beyond the small light blue-roofed shed). So how much is it?

You can make yourself the owner of this property for $175,000 (price cut by $25,000 two months ago). Represented by Elizabeth Fisher of Howard Hanna Real Estate.

For comparison, here’s a look inside another home, this one fully furnished, from this same Enon Valley community. And another emptied-out Amish home in upstate New York.