Inside An 8-Bedroom Amish Home With Just 1 Bathroom (29 Photos)

This week’s Amish home, in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, is a family home sitting on a 10-acre lot.

And true to Amish form, the family is a big one – the house has a whopping eight bedrooms –  but just one bathroom. More on that below.

Here’s the full description:

Discover the perfect blend of craftsmanship, privacy, and land stewardship with this new custom Amish-built home, thoughtfully constructed and ready for your vision.

The home is already equipped with water and septic, providing a solid foundation for comfortable country living. The home features 8 Bedrooms, 1 Full Bath Area, Full Basement, Canning Room, Custom Freezer, Beautiful Wrap Around Porch capturing neighboring views, Large Kitchen and Dining Area, and Superior Built Walls and Foundation.

The property is ideally suited for a farmette, featuring an established garden and a fully fenced pasture already in placeperfect for livestock, horses, or hobby farming. A large barn adds versatility for equipment storage, animals, or future agricultural use.

Outdoor enthusiasts will appreciate the secluded food plot with discreet access, designed to minimize disturbance. A 10′ scent-proof hunting blind overlooks the area and is supported by an excellent trail camera photo history, highlighting strong and consistent wildlife activity.

Whether you’re looking to start a small farm, enjoy private recreational land, or simply embrace a quieter rural lifestyle, this unique property offers a rare, well-rounded opportunity.

24 Hour notice for showings. Custom Amish built home (well/septic).

Let’s have a look inside.

The Bedrooms

Here’s Bedroom #1, likely the parents’ room. In two-story Amish homes, the parents’ bedroom is typically on the ground floor, while the children’s rooms occupy the second floor.

Same room from opposite angle. Great quilt.

Next, Bedroom #2 is clearly a girl’s room with a lavender color scheme.

Going by the decor, Bedroom #3 probably is as well. Some Amish homes can be quite plain, even austere. Yet you still often see vibrant splashes of color and pieces of decor in the bedrooms.

Now in Bedroom #4 we come to what is clearly a boy’s room. Hunting, hockey (this is a Pittsburgh Penguins fan, no surprise given the location of this community in western PA), and weightlifting are some favorite activities.

Not unlike a non-Amish youth’s interests. Even though they might seem mysterious to people who only view them at a distance, in many ways the Amish are not that unlike the rest of us.

Bedroom #5 has a simpler setup…no bedframe here. Personally, when it comes to comfort, I like this setup for sleeping – mattress directly on the floor. If you’re taller, you don’t have a footboard cramping you, and no risk of rolling off the bed.

Bedroom #6 is another boy’s room. This surprises some folks, but the Native American-style dreamcatcher ornament you see here is popular in Amish youth rooms.

Bedroom #7 has a pretty cool suspended seat (I realize there is probably a better name for it). I wouldn’t fit too comfortably in there, but for a younger and smaller person, probably cozy. Another girl’s room.

Finally, Bedroom #8 has one as well. And notice the fun sign by the window: “Beach Days are the Best Days”.

The Bathroom

So, a home with eight bedrooms likely means at least nine people live in this Amish home. And so now we come to the single bathroom:

You’re going to see this sort of ratio more often in Amish homes that are a bit on the plainer side. The more “modern” homes typically have a bit larger bedroom-to-bathroom, ratio, such as this one.

But this isn’t the plainest of all Amish homes. In those groups, they don’t even have in-house bathrooms, opting instead for outhouses.

And it’s not that unusual to have a ratio this large. Out of necessity, people are not camped out in the bathroom for long in these homes, given how many people might need access at any one time.

There is also a very basic shower, which appears to be housed in a different space:

The Amish sell their homes to non-Amish people all the time. There is a certain appeal of a traditional Amish home to the right kind of non-Amish buyer, who will understand they need to make some changes if they want to modernize it (the most obvious one usually being electricity). In this case, a buyer would probably want to add at least another bathroom.

Rest of the Home

Let’s take a look at the other rooms in this large home. A bit strangely, they do not give a square footage number for this place. But it must be several thousand square feet, going by the photos and specs.

The home is simple and plain, but very clean and pristine. It has a lot of the classic notes of an Amish home – spacious, with simple furniture, and gas lighting built into the home, which you might have noticed already.

Here’s the kitchen area and long kitchen table also attesting to a large family. Very clean and spacious.

This next shot shows you how the Amish typically build their homes – large spaces with ground floor rooms only semi-divided. This is good for light dispersion and to have more room for larger gatherings. On the right we see the living room area, let’s look at that next.

A look at the living room area from multiple angles.

A combination of hickory rockers with coverings, sofa and other seats make for a selection of cozy places to sit and gather with family.

As mentioned, you’ll notice the lighting in this home – a lot of built-in gas fixtures. These have woven mantles which are lit. They burn with a soothing hiss sound, and generate a decent amount of heat. In this home, they are even doubled up in some places, as you see in this next photo, for even more illumination.

This is common in some Amish homes, while others use battery lighting, and more conservative Amish would opt for kerosene or other fossil fuels such as “mineral spirits”.

Here’s a look inside the pantry room. Looks like they keep the refrigerator in here. This is probably also running on gas/propane.

This area feels like it would be ideal for sewing or other crafts. Lot of light thanks to four windows all in a row.

Here’s a standard room in many Amish homes, the wash room. Many, though not all, Amish use the wringer washers that were once commonplace in general society decades ago.

Here’s an entryway room, with boots very neatly arranged. This is where muddy, wet and mucky stuff goes so you don’t track anything into the house and get in trouble with Mom.

A spacious basement is typical of Amish homes. This is where you store canned goods, your ping pong table or exercise equipment (in some Amish homes), and most likely where this family holds church service, when it’s their turn.

Outside

Let’s take a look at some of the outside features, before we reveal the price on this property. First, the wraparound porch needs to be mentioned. A very nice feature on this home. You could fit a big family in this space.

Here’s the barn with parking for the family’s buggies.

An aerial view of the same structure.

The description emphasizes the hunting appeal of this property. The full listing even shares a number of photos of deer captured by a night camera. Here’s the hunting stand.

Another view, better showing the wraparound porch. Looks like the place comes with some nice views as well.

And another aerial shot giving a better sense of the size of the property. So, how much is this eight-bedroom, one-bathroom home with large barn on 10 acres?

The home is currently on the market at $582,500, listed by Paul Baker of Keller Williams Advantage Realty. Very nice place!

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