Beautiful Quaint Vintage Stone Cottage Tour

Sharing a home tour of our first place, a 200 hundred year old beautiful & quaint vintage stone cottage rental with pictures!

Vintage Stone Cottage Tour

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Our love of old houses has been with us from the beginning.  

Jason and my first place was a 200 year old stone cottage in Hatboro, Pa.

 It sits on a very busy road just a few short blocks from the heart of the town and across the street from the YMCA which happens to be where I got my first job at 14.  

The Y now owns the cottage and the house & has turned the property into a summer camp… Just to clarify we lived in the little stone cottage on the right. 

The one window box still up on the right Jason made & hung many years ago!

We lived there for almost 2 years as newlyweds finishing up college.  

Although small it was perfect for the 2 of us.  

With the exception of a few outside pictures I shot this morning in the rain… I don’t have too many pictures to show you.  

It had two rooms downstairs a living room with a fireplace & a kitchen.

Upstairs had two bedrooms, a bath & a walk up attic.  

I loved the wood beam ceiling (like we took down in our current farmhouse) & the deep windowsills & despite living on a very busy street the stone walls kept everything quiet!

It also had an amazingly large backyard of a couple acres and a stream with an old spring house.  

Some of these pictures are really blurry because they are over 14 years old and we did not have a good camera.

Springhouse of the Stone Cottage

We learned how to entertain and host in this house and were constantly having our friends and family over.  

It was truly amazing how many people we could pack into that little house!

We had many many BBQ’s in this stone cottage where Jason perfected his grilling skills.

I learned to really cook & bake here too.  

We didn’t have a lot of money but I found creative ways to decorate using my thrift store discount (my full time job at the time) & scouring yard sales & flea markets.

My mom taught me how to make curtains for all my windows & Jason began making furniture & collecting tools for the house he hoped to fix up some day.

We grew up a lot that first two years of marriage in this little stone cottage.

We graduated college with dance and math degrees and we both got our first “real” jobs.  

We dove into the world of puppy hood with 2 miniature schnauzers named Eric and Adam who we loved dearly for almost 13 years.

We also first became parents in this little cottage.

God blessed us with two little lives.  

One we lost through miscarriage at just 12 weeks and one beautiful healthy little boy named Bennett (now 12 1/2) who was born the last month we lived here.  

It’s hard to believe that we would still be blessed in the future with three more precious little ones:).

I have so so many SWEET memories of living in this vintage stone cottage.

Jason & I spent many a night sitting in front of the fireplace in the winter or outside with a glass of wine or beer in our hammock planning our dreams, hopes and plans for our future together.

Dreams of a big old house with a lot of land, a few kids and dogs, lots of laughter and lots of fun sharing our life with friends and family.  

It’s amazing to see where God has allowed us to go when I look back at where it all started.

by Tara Lehman