Look Inside A Kentucky Amish Home (20 Photos)

If you passed this home on the road, would you immediately know it was Amish?

Some Amish homes don’t look traditionally “Amish,” but are built in styles more reminiscent of English (non-Amish) country homes.

But if you stepped inside, you would definitely spot some Amish accents:

You can pick up on some characteristic cues looking through photos of this Kentucky home, located in the Munfordville settlement, the state’s largest.

This home was listed for sale – it looks like back in 2016 – on Zillow.

Let’s start with the kitchen:

Leftover spaghetti lunch?

Here are the bedrooms:

A young man’s room:

A Kentucky Wildcats fan lives here.

There are no photos of the bathroom.

Let’s go down in the basement. The canning corner.

I can’t quite make out what they’ve been canning, maybe you can:

And a traditional heating stove.

Here’s the entrance to the basement from outside:

There are a few elements you might be surprised to see. How about a weight room?

Here’s the sun room:

Here’s what that looks like from outside:

How about some more views from the exterior. On the front porch:

Pond:

Backyard:

Family fire pit.

Garage:

Pretty spacious inside.

You can see that overall this home has a less plain and more modern look for an Amish home – especially compared to places like this, or even this classic farmhouse.

This home has five bedrooms and two bathrooms, and is 2,560 square feet in size, on a 5-acre lot. It was listed at $169,500. It is now off the market.

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    21 Comments

    1. Maryann Sullivan

      "amish home"

      “Very nice”. “much prettier than mine”. Of coarse I have 4 “priceless” dogs running in and out (all stray at one time). Thanks for sharing photos, makes me think of how well my mom kelp house. God Bless.

      1. Glad you liked it Maryann, sounds like a busy and happy house you keep with those four.

    2. Lynn Maniscalco

      Where do you think they keep the horse and buggy? Apparently not in the garage.

      1. Lynn there is actually a small horse barn, you can see it in the photo I titled “Backyard.”

    3. Robert G BRAUN

      Not typical Amish

      These pictures do not represent a normal Amish home. Amish homes I have
      been in are not this fancy. Also Amish homes do not have curtains. I think
      these Folks are not truly Amish. They are just claiming Amish.

      1. Maureen, NY

        Kentucky Amish

        Erick,

        This might be a more progressive Amish church – several lamps that have wires. However, I know very conservative Amish that have plain, either white or blue curtains, or canvas roll-up shades on their windows.

        1. Let's define normal

          I’ve been in this community before, they have ties with the large Geauga County, Ohio settlement. You can also see a large car or marine battery on the floor in the second bedroom photo, probably for the nightstand lamp.

          These are Amish, but of a group that’s less plain than it sounds like the folks whom you are familiar with, Robert. There is a good bit of material and technological variety across the 2,500+ Amish church congregations. Some are plainer and others less plain.

          https://amishamerica.com/amish-affiliations/

      2. Mary C Harrison

        Amish home

        I have been in several Amish homes & all had curtains. During the day they are pulled back for ventilaion. I also drive for a small community & every home has curtains hanging.

      3. Maire

        I don’t think this house is Amish at all – some of the lamps have electrical cords.

        1. The nightstand lamp in the girl’s room is powered by the large battery on the floor. There is also what looks to be a 12 Volt inverter (which can be used to power small appliances and are fairly widespread among some groups of Amish) on the piece of furniture next to the tall lamp in the first bedroom picture.

          Here’s a bit more explaining inverters: https://books.google.pl/books?id=2l6CDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT102&lpg=PT102&dq=amish+inverter&source=bl&ots=Oql_Igei9L&sig=ACfU3U2aNpviQULXE9IBxjSvUXvptklvSA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiOxcTYjcjoAhVJxcQBHX5xAVgQ6AEwC3oECAoQMw#v=onepage&q=amish%20inverter&f=false

          In the kitchen and living room you can notice the traditional gas/propane lamps including the fixtures built into the wall. In the mainstream/progressive Amish churches you’ll often see a mix of lighting sources in this way. It’s interesting in that the more traditional style of lighting is visible downstairs, while the more progressive form lighting appears up in the bedrooms:)

          https://amishamerica.com/5-ways-amish-light-their-homes/

      4. Deborah

        Amish House

        This house was originally an Amish built home but converted. It was on the market for quite awhile. I took interest in it because it had 5 acres with it. As you see, the large garage is brand new. Another barm came with it with fenced in fields. The Amish no longer live in it. I am not sure way it’s being passed off as an Amish house now.

        1. Well, this is an old listing. I mentioned in the post it appears to be from 2016, and that it is off the market now. The realty site apparently doesn’t take them down, or didn’t in this case.

          Everything about the appearance of this home says “mainstream/progressive Amish”, including the propane/gas lighting, musical clock, Amish hat on the kitchen table, basement canning kitchen, basement wood stove, battery-powered lighting, style of decor, quilts, and so on. It sounds like it may have been converted after these photos were taken if that’s the case. It sounds like it was bought by someone non-Amish? I guess that is the point of listing online:)

    4. Al in Ky

      Thanks for sharing these pictures. Munfordville/Hart County is a beautiful area, especially in the spring/summer/fall. I looked on the map and realized this homestead is not far from the Interstate 65 southbound exit to Munfordville. I’ve taken that exit many times, but didn’t realize there was an Amish homestead that close to the exit. I wonder if an Amish or non-Amish person bought the place.

      Munfordville is one of the larger Amish settlements, but is pretty spread out, being geographically divided by Interstate 65 and the Green River. Several years ago I visited an Amish-owned woodworking shop which was west of I-65 and north of the Green River. While outside the shop, the owner pointed in a southward direction and said, “Just 1/2 mile south of here live several relatives, but it’s well over an hour’s drive away because I have to get to a road that crosses the river.”

      1. It could very well have been bought by a non-Amish person since it looks like the listing was several years old. These online listings of Amish places always make me curious, especially in a community that is as fast-growing as Munfordville has shown to be in recent years.

        I remember that about the river in this community – maybe you were the one who pointed it out to me. Looks like quite an obstacle especially for any Amish who wish to cross over to the other side. Unfortunate that they settled in a community with that major natural obstacle, but when the first Amish people came there 30+ years ago they probably weren’t thinking in terms of a settlement now nearly 20 church districts in size.

    5. KimH

      Looks typical Amish to me!

      Looks like several Geauga Co Amish homes I’ve been in, in Burton and Middlefield.
      Pretty typical for that area..

      I’d be willing to bet the canned goods are peaches or maybe apricots in front and berries of some sort in the back.

      1. The non-boxy homes with more modern landscaping and no buggies visible usually make me look twice 🙂 Though you’re right the design cues even in the first photo are in the Amish ballpark, especially if you know beforehand what community you’re in. Beyond that first photo, if I also had the side view with the basement entrance, and other details like the garage and barn in sight, it would be easier to tell.

        Do you know if you’ve been in any of the Geauga Amish homes from the “number twos” group? They would be the more conservative collection of churches in that community.

        1. KimH

          #2

          I dont know about #2 Amish.. most of the homes I’ve been in are Old Order Amish but I don’t believe any of them are super conservative.
          I did go to a get together at one families home that could have been a #2 but we didn’t go into their home. It was very small and base, and they had a bathroom off of the garage.

    6. J.O.B.

      motor boat in garage

      If this is a Amish house, then why is there a motor boat in the garage?

      1. Probably because the Amish who lived here owned a motor boat.

        They’re particularly popular among Amish in northern Indiana, for example, where there a number of small lakes.

        Here’s a photo of an Amish buggy pulling a motorboat in the Nappanee, Indiana community: https://amishamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/amish-boat.jpg

        Here’s a boat parked outside a home in Arthur, Illinois: https://amishamerica.com/images/motorboat.jpg

        Another from Indiana: https://amishamerica.com/images/amish-pontoon-boat.jpg

    7. J.O.B.

      Great Pictures

      Horse and buggy pulling a motor boat for fishing. Such a contrast.

      I see these contrasting images more and more among the Amish.

    8. Adrienne McGinley

      I couldn’t help but notice what appeared to be a jewelry box in the girl’s room…looked very similar to the ones my girls had, with the dancing ballerina that pops up when the lid is opened.