Monday, January 15, 2018

Hillside Homestead




My friend Susan owns Hillside Homestead, an historic inn where she hosts farm stays and traditional meals.  She is a fascinating woman who learned her old school skills during the several years she dressed in colonial costume and worked at Greenfield Village in Detroit, cooking over a wood burning stove, etc. 


Farm cat Bina


The centerpiece of the kitchen, an enormous wood fired stove - it heated the whole first floor of the house


vintage cook books


Decorated risers of the stairs to the second floor, Susan said she has a love/hate relationship with this detail as it is not authentic or original, but nonetheless unique and pretty - I loved it


front parlor


Susan is a master canner - this is just one shelf of her work


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