A Barn in New England: Making a Home on Three Acres
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.86 (938 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 081182974X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-03-22 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
The beauty of the New England countryside, the joys of forming a new family, and the adventure of renovating a nineteenth-century barn come together in Joe Monninger's warm and evocative memoir of home and hearth. While building a fence, putting in a garden, renovating the house, and exploring the land, the author finds his family's new life rooted in the area's old traditions, learning the history of covered bridges and New England's witchy past. With the charms of New England front and center, this endearing memoir captures the pleasures large and small of making a new place your own.. When the author and his black Labrador, and Wendy and her eight-year-old son, move into a 6,000-square-foot barn in New Hampshire, they fall in love with
"A different way of life" according to A Customer. This is a great book that offers to show us a different way of life than most of us live. Having grown up in the suburbs of California, the oldest house I lived in was A different way of life This is a great book that offers to show us a different way of life than most of us live. Having grown up in the suburbs of California, the oldest house I lived in was 30 years old. I never had to worry about heating, or beams falling apart things that are very real concers to Joe and his family.In addition to the general information about "barn" living, we see what it is like to integrate three lives into one new one. The stories of the deepening relationship between Joe and Pie are heartwarming and touching, as are the moments of closeness between Joe and Wendy.Mr. Monninger gives us a wonderful insight to barns, New England, an. 0 years old. I never had to worry about heating, or beams falling apart things that are very real concers to Joe and his family.In addition to the general information about "barn" living, we see what it is like to integrate three lives into one new one. The stories of the deepening relationship between Joe and Pie are heartwarming and touching, as are the moments of closeness between Joe and Wendy.Mr. Monninger gives us a wonderful insight to barns, New England, an. Creating a Life Deborah Hogan I just completed the relishing of Joseph Moninger's , A Barn. Agreeing with anothers veiwpoint of too much flowering descriptions I ignored a few choice lines and skipped to new paragraphs; yet with respect I know I would never have enjoyed the parts I did read if they had not been described with such love and experience. I am one of those "wanna be barn owners"; ever since I was eight years old and watched the people two streets over gut, renew and live in this massive building with huge windows and sturdy walls. I fell in love. Amongst all the eloquence this book offers; it is the underlying theme; the reason I did not read it, . Amazon Customer said Establishing a common home. This book documents the first year of living as a family for Monninger, his partner, and his partner's son. The book begins with the first day Monninger and his partner went to look at the barn that would become their home together and follows them for one year as they establish their new life as one family in their home in the barn. Monninger describes how each person adapted to living in the 6000 square foot living area inside the barn, how they remodeled some rooms, added heating stoves, and rebuilt the kitchen. It tells how they melded their furniture together, choosing one person's or another's best pieces, and purchased some
Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.. Generally, though, Monninger's prose, like his life, is homegrown and deceptively simple. But many are vivid and unusual, as when he relates "the storm made me feel like a cat in a room full of rocking chairs." Sometimes, too, Monninger gets overly elegiac, especially when it comes to barns, whose sacredness he compares to Saint Patrick's Cathedral. He and Wendy celebrate the news that their offer on the barn has been accepted by roasting marshmallows with Pie, their "traditional Friday-night fare." Monninger collects sleds, builds an igloo with Pie in the backyard and oozes curiosity about his environment, sharing details on everything from the history of the nearby Baker River to a wood pile that needs cobbing. As they transform the summer residence into a year-round house, the book combines the fix-it elements of the public television series This Old House with a meditation on family, as Wendy and her ei