Inside an Amish Home

What do you find on the walls of Amish homes?  As we discussed in a previous post on Amish wall decor, these items tend toward the practical–things like decorative calendars or zip code charts. Even the ostensibly “non-practical” pieces are practical in their own, higher-purpose way–a framed inspirational saying or Biblical verse, for example, daily […]

Continue Reading Inside an Amish Home: Musical Clock

I grew up washing my hands in the kitchen sink when I came in from outdoors and often before meals. Mostly because it was the most convenient one, and for that matter, really the only one, unless you wanted to walk to one of the bathrooms in the back of the house. I just spent […]

Continue Reading Inside an Amish Home: Second Sink

Taken by reader Rose in the Kingston/Dalton, WI Amish settlement (Green Lake County) in what looks like a basement or mud room.  A spot like this, typical in Amish homes, can come in handy.  Your caption ideas welcome.

Continue Reading Inside an Amish home: Muddy pairs

Mary Brandenburg shares photos of a basement and washing machine from an Ohio Old Order Amish home. Basements in Amish homes typically have cinder block walls and cement floors.  You’ll have a sink and an area to process food.  You’ll also have a stove of some sort piping heat throughout the house in winter. Card […]

Continue Reading Inside an Amish home: Washing Machine and Basement

How do Amish folks maintain such a calm demeanor?  Well, while poking around my friend’s library, I think I came across the secret.  Attitude Adjustors: This innocent box just happened to be lying there on the shelf (within easy reach of a work desk, a stack of bills and other scary-looking papers, I might add). […]

Continue Reading Inside an Amish Home: Attitude Adjustors

From a Lancaster friend’s home: Sharpening minds and no. 2’s: Sigh.  I remember spending a bit more time with these, once: Here’s the full list of Amish home interior photos.

Continue Reading Inside an Amish home: Library and reading room

From an Andy Weaver Amish home, a quilt in frame: Zooming in: Thanks to Karen Johnson-Weiner for the photo.  Here are a few more Amish interiors: Amish Kitchen Amish Living Room Amish Wall Decor

Continue Reading Inside an Amish Home: Quilting

Over the past few weeks we’ve tried to show the diverse interiors of Amish homes, from the plainer to the more progressive. I hope you enjoy this shot today from a more conservative Swartzentruber Amish home: What do you spy on that dresser? Hanging around: Special thanks to Karen Johnson-Weiner (author of New York Amish: […]

Continue Reading Inside an Amish home: Three rockers

You might remember a photo a couple weeks back, of an Amish kitchen that some people found a bit on the fancy side? Today we have a shot of another room in the same Michigan home: This place looks like it has some nice spots for taking a nap.  Just as long as those clocks […]

Continue Reading Inside an Amish Home: Michigan Amish Relaxation Room

Another photo today, of an inspirational wall decoration from an outhouse at an Amish school (thanks again to Karen Johnson-Weiner). If there is any place that could use a little livening up, I guess it is the outhouse.  And why not include an uplifting message?  Actually I guess this is more of a lesson in […]

Continue Reading Inside an Amish…Outhouse