Inside The Home Of A “Musical” Amish Family (21 Photos)

This Amish home lies near the wonderfully-named Summer Shade, Kentucky. There is an Amish community here in Barren County (though the place called Summer Shade technically lies in a neighboring county).

These photos show us a pretty traditional Amish home, especially downstairs. Upstairs, we see signs that this is quite a musically-inclined Amish family.

The description:

What’s special: Amish built farmhouse, large 40 x 80 shop, 16 acres, horse barn. This homestead farm sits on 16 acres that has a mix of pasture and woods. Situated in rural Southern Barren County, Kentucky.

The home has 7 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, large country kitchen with custom cabinets and solid surface countertops. This home is ideal for large families. House is light and bright with lots of windows.

There is a walkout basement with 10 foot poured concrete walls with a canning area. This home includes a high-capacity well water system that provides enough water for the home and gardens. Large wraparound covered porches.

Peaceful country road with little traffic. Large multipurpose shop with 3 overhead doors that is ideal for workshop business. Horse barn opens to expansive fenced grazing fields. Abundant wildlife, nice hunting property, homestead farming, horses or livestock, unrestricted. Please note there is no electric.

The home appears to have a really nice setting among a venerable collection of trees with a nice long porch and a handy, healthy supply of wood for burning right at hand:

Another look at the property, showing the home positioned up on a nice incline, and the workshop in the background. This is on a sizable 16-acre piece of land.

And here’s that workshop while we’re at it:

Nice sized building which would probably do well for a furniture maker or something like that.

So let’s have a look inside the home.

Kitchen

Another look at the kitchen, love the coziness and classic look. Looks like a jar of jam or honey or molasses there. Feels very traditional, but also look at all the lights and battery stands lined up on the counter, and of course the one hanging from the ceiling. Also looks like a little LP stove.

A view down the kitchen table into the living room at the other end. Big open spaces connecting rooms. Notice the antler mount serves a functional purpose in this home as well 🙂

Here’s the view from the other direction back towards the kitchen table.

Living Room

Stepping into the living room, the photos give us a nice compare-and-contrast between two common style of relaxation seating in Amish living rooms – the plainer hickory rockers with a cloth/cushion covering…

…flanked by comfier-looking recliners which you won’t find in the plainer homes.

All in all a cozy-looking living room.

Bedrooms (& Musical instruments)

As mentioned, this home has quite a few bedrooms – seven of them in fact. Here’s what looks like the parents’ bedroom, no visible musical stuff in here.

But the next several bedroom photos suggest you’ve got a number of musically-inclined people in this family. This first one has both a guitar and a keyboard:

We see a bright yellow electric keyboard in this one…and not only that, look what’s up there perched on the cabinet. Is that a drone?

Finally, another keyboard…and an electric guitar. These are obviously the children’s rooms, probably teenage age range.

As far as where they get the “juice”, as we’ve covered before, in some Amish families they will use batteries plus an inverter to generate current for certain appliances and devices.

And as far as the instruments themselves, if I were to post this on Facebook or other social media, we’d no doubt get some comments along the lines of “the Amish don’t play instruments”.

Well, that’s not really a correct statement. The fact is this sort of is not unheard of when it comes to younger Amish people in more progressive communities especially (see this article on the Amish and music, or my video on the topic at the end of this post for more on that).

To give a couple examples, here are some Amish girls playing instruments at an event in Ohio back in 2012

And a musical band of Amish girls doing the same sort of thing in Pinecraft, Florida:

Rest of the home

Back to the home, here is a shot of the bathroom with the handy battery light at the ready:

Dropping down into the basement to check out the well-stocked canned goods department:

More of the basement:

And a look at that long porch.

Here we see the barn mentioned in the description. Those look like good climbing trees.

And a further view of the property. So how much is this place?

It’s available now at a price of $365,000, represented by Leeann Kiser of McIver Realty Group. Looks like a nice place!

Also a nice chance to re-visit the topic of the Amish and music. I hadn’t seen an Amish home before with so much evidence of a musically-inclined family. Neat. And here’s that video I mentioned up above, for more on that: