Friday, November 13, 2009

Girls Weekend on The Farm

Last weekend, I was blessed with the opportunity to join a few girlfriends for a weekend away at a beautiful cabin on some acreage just outside of Nashville. It was an open invitation to all the girls in our book club, but due to many scheduling conflicts, it ended up only being 4 of us in a gigantic 5 bedroom, 4 bath cabin/barn for 2 1/2 days. Complete and total bliss.

I'd had a rough couple weeks with all the pain from the dental surgery, roof leaking issues, HVAC quitting on us ect... I was stressed and was grateful to have a few days to recharge my batteries and do nothing but stay in my pajamas and read. And the best part about it, it was completely free. The cabin/barn belongs to a friend of one of the girls and they had offered it to her for the weekend.

I did take some pictures of The Farm (as it's referred to) so you can get an idea of this piece of heaven I was able to enjoy!
It was constructed as a barn and the right side is used for events, while the left side is the actual home.
This is what it looks like from inside the barn, you can see the stables on the right.


Here are some shots of the surrounding acreage and ponds.







We would take walks in the afternoon around the property to look at the creek, ponds, cows and this lovely little duck. It took me a couple days before I realized it was plastic. Awesome I know.
Here is the entrance to the cabin side of the barn. Aren't those rocking chairs just precious?

Once inside you see the great room that includes the dining table, living room, kitchen and pool table.
But my favorite aspect of the house was the breathtaking 20 ft fireplace surrounded by comfy leather chairs.
And can you believe I had this room all to myself? It was almost too quiet to sleep, but I'm not complaining! Gorgeous!
A huge thank you to my dear friend Julie for hooking us up that weekend and to the family that was so generous by sharing The Farm with us!

3 comments:

Holli said...

Wow!! What a neat place!! I'm glad you got to have some much needed girl time... that's always fun :)

Katrina Hope said...

and you spent the whole weekend thinking 'bout your youngest sister's wedding... and wishing she'd just listen to your 'proposal' so she could finally have her barn-venue ;)

Katrina Hope said...

shouldn't we have heard about your thanksgiving by now? get on the blogg'n sis!