This is my Cresthaven. It was winter when we viewed the place with the owners.
The million dollar view. This area along the Saint John River in New Brunswick is called Islandview for this very reason.
Dianna Checking out the view.
The back of the house. There is a field directly behind about ten acres large. Beyond that is the woodlot. To the left of this shot, but outside the frame is a separate "shed" that is connected via the porch in the shadow. This shed is two stories, well built, and matches the house. There is only one other building on the premises, a cattle barn, about a hundred yards to the left and slightly up the hill.
The bay windows on the front have been replaced in modern times. I believe the originals were much larger, hence all the white in their frames.
The front of the shed is on the right in this shot.
Inside the front door. This door is actually on the side. There is no door on the front. I did not get a picture of the beautiful double door porch that leads into this wide, windowed door.
The first thing you see coming into the house (besides the main stairs I mysteriously have no picture of) is this beautiful round wall. It forms a wide space in front of the parlour and the entryway.
Looking in the parlour. That is a side window. There were two in this room. Both large.
The bay in the dining room.
Wainscoting in the dining room. There are two doors in this room. One from the hall, the other on this side wall that leads into the kitchen.
Standing in the HUGE kitchen looking at the door to the dining room on the left and to the hall on the right.
Still in the middle of the kitchen, now facing the back wall where there is a small wet pantry to the left, the door to the cellar in the middle and a large arch to another wet pantry and the back door which leads out to the back porch.
Standing in the large pantry looking into the kitchen. Note the tin ceiling.
The front corner of the kitchen. There are all kinds of windows in this house. Was bright in here.
The second floor landing. This was another room in my view. You could put a couch and chair here. On this floor there are six bedrooms and a bathroom. The ceiling here, like below, is ten feet.
These are the two rooms on the house's left. The top of the landing is just to the right.
The two central rooms. Disappointingly, they split the bay.
From the right side room toward the left side room. That's the owner's wife and daughter who came to show us around the place. I think she wanted to explore, herself. They had never been in it. They only bought the property for the woodlot.
That left side room looking to the side and back.
The right side room, looking toward the front.
I think this is the left front room.
A detail of a doorknob. These were all through the house. The white spooge could be a processing error.
The back stairs. The door at the bottom to the right goes into the larger wet pantry. The stairs to the cellar are directly below here.
The top floor landing. It was not as bright up here, but it was sweet beyond words. I could picture low Ikea furniture and lots of pillows…and a fluffy cat. There were two rooms at either end, one in the front and a dormer at the back which made a little extra space fit for curling up with a book.
The dormer. That's a tiny window. I think the other was larger. The railing is around the stairwell.
The left room. Looking back to the stairs and the door beyond to the other main room. One of the two chimneys is beside the door. Some water damage is visible.
The room at the front. It was tiny. The dormer made it much better.
The door to the shed. Those are sixteen inch planks running at an angle on the floor.
Standing in the front, finished room of the shed looking toward the back. The door on the left goes out into the tractor bay. The door on the left goes to a large pantry (okay, kitchen).
In the tractor bay. This is an old thresher. One of several old pieces we noticed.
