I have a few questions, what are the dimensions of the room and what will it mostly be used for.

also are the maid quarter stairs (i assume this is what those are) and does this mean that the room is off the kitchen? I think 4 club chairs in the center of the room would be great with the bar and fireplace setting the stage but maybe not trying to force the focal point since its hard to line up any one thing in front of it.

Rl thanks for the advice! So these stairs are called winders, popular on the east coast old 1800 houses. They wrap around that huge fireplace. Then on the next level they wrap around again to the attic!

This sitting room is right off the kitchen! And has lovely views of the backyard. I don’t have the dimensions at the moment but I measured the width from the inside of the bar to the left wall and I have about 77” if I did a sofa.

I LOVE YOUR IDEA about four chairs! I’m going to try and add here a picture looking from the fireplace back towards the kitchen. You’ll see an archway that leads to kitchen. The white wall to the right of the arachway I’m doing books and records in cabinets and in front of that I’m putting my mothers kitchen table it’s a leaf table and can fold up relatively small but then can be added on for dinner. The room is quite long so I feel confident it could work! It’s just awkward spacing! I picture this room being where everyone hangs if they come over for a chat or a drink.

Thanks for the help and any chairs you see you like I’m open to suggestions!

Im in love ! that is some awesome stone work, I think that might be the ticket with a chat, bar, hang out area. Those beams are also pretty amazing! cant wait for progress pictures!

Thanks so much! It’s been quite an adventure we love it. Didn’t even know the stone was there it was covered in wood paneling! Then we discovered it and I decided I wanted big windows we have awesome masons who have hand done all this work including the archway and the bottom of the fireplace! We’re definitely exposing the beams too! I’ll keep you posted! Feel free to follow me on IG if you have it I track a lot there @themagpiefarm
Thanks for the advice!

What an amazing project and home you have! It's really going to be wonderful. I'll bet those stone masons are thrilled to be able to restore all that stone work. Thank goodness you purchased the house and not someone wanting to destroy it all. I hope you will post progress photos here, too.

RL's idea of chairs instead of a sofa is great. I saw this and thought of your room:

Circular seating

Please post pics of progress. This is an amazing space!!!! :)

Thanks everyone!! I most certainly will! Should I continue them on this thread? I’m not the most experienced houzz user haha! Should have windows in there starting Wednesday! Here’s a view of the front stoop we had rebuilt and we snagged the door from Facebook marketplace for 100! Since it had to be custom to fit, I decided to go antique and give an old
Door a second life! We’ll be restoring it so the wood will look nicer, it’s just getting adjusted to fit right now!

yes, post on this thread, so it will all be together from start to finish. Beautiful door!

That door is pretty cool! I checked out your instagram last night, very cool space!

Thanks RL! It’s coming along! :)

Hey everyone! Here’s the room cleaned up a bit and the windows went in!! Also going to show you a before and after exterior shot and interior shot!

Windows in! Ground floor are black rest of house is white windows. The plaster will be white so I think the black windows will pop and the upstairs portion of the house will be gray siding

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Oh, my goodness, is that gorgeous! Thanks for posting progress pictures.

*clapping! looks fantastic

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><md>Thanks everyone! Hard to get a good wide angle shot (maybe that’s a good excuse to get the new iPhone )

I guess emojis don’t work on here hahaha

Love your home and progress! How old was the original structure? Everything looks great!

Thank you so Much! We’ve heard conflicting reports, some 1810 and another 1850... my contractor thinks it could be even older but no clue! The add on on the left (when looking from back side of the house was done in the 1940s!

Hi everyone! We have all our doors now!! :

• I got an old Dutch door again for 100 bucks on Facebook marketplace and had my contractor make it fit (this will be refinished eventually)
• we got a solid clear panel door in the stone room to match the windows (it’s white at the moment but will be painted black to match)
• we also have a floor!! :)
  
  

So very charming! Thanks for the update!

A wonderful room! 👏 And we have emojis!

Loving the Dutch door!

Thanks all!! And yay for emojis! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 I’ll continue to post when there’s more updates still a long way to go but so pleased with this room! I’m hoping the dark stain on the beams can come off and show a more natural wood, then get the stairs to match :)

Hey everyone! It’s been a while since I posted updates and to be honest there isn’t too much to report at the moment! Trying to figure out where to put ducts for central air. I’m attaching some photos I thought you might like :) the first is what the beams look like inside the walls and what I’m hoping the ones exposed will look like when they stain is rubbed out. The second pic is the original flooring upstairs (dusty from construction). It’s called pumpkin pine flooring and that’s the flooring I want to put on the ground level kitchen and sitting room. Then a picture from the notching looking at the stone room, and vice versa! Hope everyone is healthy and safe ❤️

For some reason kitchen got autocorrected to notching lol

So charming. Love what you're doing.

Beautiful! Excited to see the progress!

love everything about it!

Here is the room finished! Hope everyone had a nice holiday weekend!

Fabulous. Nice of you to come back with the update.

Julie-you must be so excited! Well done! Love the staircase, well love everything! I know it’s been a labor of love and you guys did an amazing job!!