Spectacular!

congratulations

fantastic! Happy moving.

What a beautiful place! Congratulations!

Congratulations! It is a beautiful place!

We can be at your house to party, then go to Moni's to continue those who have new digs. We missed it when Robin moved!

I'm speechless. "Awesome" is over-used, but that is truly awesome!! Congratulations. I wish you many happy years in your little bit of heaven.

It's a beautiful property. Charlottesville is pretty country. The town has grown a lot since we lived there many years ago. Congratulations.

Oh, my goodness, what a FANTASTIC house and property! I love, love, love, the wrap-around veranda on the ground floor, and the covered balconies on the upper floor.

Huge congratulations to you!

Really beautiful.

quite a fixer upper!!! LOL, gorgeous! Love it. Sure is a long driveway though.

Moni

Oh, that's lovely! Horse paradise. I love your beams, windows, and a bunch of other things. Just drop me off at the pond. :-)

wow it's beautiful! I'm very happy for you!

A beauty! Congratulations.

Your heart must be singing! I can't imagine waking up to that every morning. I would never leave. Spectacular!

Magnificent! Wishing you and your bride many happy years in your beautiful home!!!!

You had me at "Sugarday". How old is the original house?

Oh Bob, that is undoubtedly the most beautiful place - total, not just the house - that I have seen in a long time. Your wife's horses will think that they have really moved up to the tip top of the equine world!! Enjoy your diamond of a find. I'll take well designed and built barns, a pond, wrap around porches on the house, good fences and beautiful pastures over 30 super-duper houses in town any day of the week.

I don't dare show DH a picture of your wrap around porch - he would volunteer to be your porch sweeper just to be able to set out on them of an evening...HA. And, I have 10 or so head of Beefalos that have signed up to come out there and check out your pastures (yeah I know you call them paddocks) to make sure the grass is safe for the lucky horses... If Jim can make it up to your place, I can pick him up there and we can circle back through OKC to see Moni, put Jim on a plane to Fla. and I can come on home to the Tx. Panhandle. What day next week would be best for us to arrive?(ducking quickly!!)

Gmatx...please pick me up on your way..123 jealous lane.

Bob, your new home and surroundings are absolutely XONGILA ( exquisitely beautiful).

Absolutely stunning. I am just pea green with envy! Congratulations! May you have many years of bliss in your new home!

Congratulations on your closing! It all looks so lovely, but if you should plan on remodeling that kitchen, I can be there to pick up the range, get that out of your way ;0)

Stunning! I am so glad for you!

OMG what a beautiful property. Congratulations!

Bob,

It appears that there are some crops along the drive. Wheat?

Oh my goodness. Wonderful property, and that house - a fixer upper you say? Wow it looks really fine to me!

It's beautiful!!! You said fixer upper? What will you be changing?

I am envious of the lovely house, but not of the work to keep that acreage looking so picture perfect. Wonderful find.

OhMY! Too, too beautiful. Lucy, lucky you and most happy wishes for a long and happy time there.

That is spectacular. I wish you many years of happiness and contentment in your new home. When is moving day?

I only said "fixer upper" because of the two other recent posts with fixer upper in the title. There are definitely some minor issues that need fixing, dents and nail holes in the drywall, rooms that need painting, and a large riding ring in the pasture.

Bob, Wishing you and yours nothing but happiness in your new digs! It is positively magnificent!

Congratulations on getting a piece of Heaven on earth. It is gorgeous, and that area is so beautiful. Enjoy!!

Oh my that is just gorgeous!! Congratulations, I am sure you all will really enjoy living there. Lucky horses. Lovely country side.

Bob, thanks so much for showing us your spectacular property. Congratulations!! It's right out of a movie. I see many more horses in your wife's future :-)

There sure is little to do, isn't there? The only thing that I would do is remove the black and white island in the kitchen. The house is so bright and sunny.

Does Virginia get snow? Do you have a tractor to mow and blow? I'm so excited to see your future journeys on the property. Flower gardens, pictures of you on the tractor, your wife's horses.......the list is endless?

I can just imagine the cookouts and entertaining you'll be doing. I'd better apply for a passport for the KT Shindig!

Thanks to everyone for the kind comments. I'm still a little dazed.

Portions of the house were originally built around 1901, and that portion was located on a different part of the property, but VDOT decided they wanted to put a bypass through the living room of that house, so the previous owners moved that portion and then added on significantly trying to preserve the original style, including using beams reclaimed from old barns. Through the last couple of decades the bypass was on-again-off-again, and then about 3 years ago after a flurry of activity when the bypass project was really definitely going to happen, a new governor came in and killed the project once and for all.

Jim, I don't think are any crops along the driveway, except maybe hay.

We may end up deciding that the kitchen need to be redone. I'm not fond of tile countertops, nor the hanging pot rack, and there seem to be too few drawers. Plus although everyone seems to love the giant Viking gas stove, I've never really been fond of cooking with gas. Maybe I'll learn to like it.

We've already been moving some stuff over, and may start living there this week, but we will likely leave much of our furniture at the old place for a while so that it shows better.

What a gorgeous property! Fixer upper huh? Looks mighty nice to me but I'm sure you will want make it your own.

Give the gas stove a chance. It took me a while to learn to cook on one years ago. Once I got use to it I loved it. Moved to another state & have not had one since & I miss it.

Agree, please give the gas a chance. I've never had it in my own kitchen, but enjoy it in those kitchens belonging to others where I've helped cook.

A few years before we bought this house (built 1955), someone had redone the kitchen. And its fine, light, bright, plenty of storage, great for cooking with friends here and not bumping into each other. But I have natural gas heat (radiant in the ceilings) that is not extended to the appliances which are electric. A glass topped range I tolerate but don't love. And I zeroed in on your double ovens. I have one oven even though there was room for two.

What an exciting time for you. I know the staging of a home to sell can be more or less important depending on your area and what local buyers expect. When I sold 3 years ago, I didn't particularly stage other than I left lamps, lamp tables (evening showings), a couple of comfortable chairs so potential buyers could sit down and discuss how much they loved the house, write an offer while there ;0). And they did, first week.

Oh that big Viking gas stove was the first thing I zeroed in on in the kitchen. It's a dream stove! Please allow yourself to utilize that beauty. I finally got to get gas here after the flood and I have been so happy with it. I have had to tolerate electric and the prior one was a glass top which I hope to never ever have again I detest it.

Should you decide to get rid of the viking there's a long list of folks on the kitchen forum and here that would be in line to buy it lol. It won't fit in mine.

I agree with you that the kitchen countertops being that tile and grout combo is not a desirable thing. For such a big house the kitchen is small. Is there more storage or a pantry?

You have what many dream of!

Keep the gas range. Electric is a shade more even for baking, but gas is king for stovetop. Spend a little time on the Kitchen Forum here, giving them the layout.

I really like the old part of the house -- the board and batten. The narrow and arched-top windows on the second floor look original and appropriate.

Do you have 'help' lined up?

What many of us wouldn't give for a big Viking gas range! If you get rid of it, please don't tell us.

Beautiful property. Love the setting for the house. By the way, that is really a long driveway!

The driveway shown in the video is less than half the total length. The rest is a narrow pipestem continuing on to the road.

Absolutely a gorgeous house and property.

Well, if you go through with it, you will be living a fantasy lifestyle. It is beautiful!

I think your house is the one of my dreams, I wish you much happiness in this amazing abode.

Thanks again for all the kind comments. Last night was the first night we spent in the new place. We still have much to move from the old place, and lots of minor maintenance on both places.

I'll definitely give the Viking a chance before deciding to make a change. One thing in its favor is that the induction cooktop in the old house has recently developed a problem where it flashes an error code and turns itself off.

I've barely used the new kitchen yet, but I'm already finding it frustrating. Upper cabinets that aren't deep enough, lower cabinets with just a door and a dark cavernous space, skinny cabinets with face frames that prevent you from putting anything large into the cabinet.

I don't know how I missed this post originally, but congratulations on your new place! It's beautiful! I love that stove, but empathize with your cabinet frustration. Newer set-ups with pull-outs are so much more efficient than the old style reach-in boxes.

Bob, that's a lovely place. So what's to fix up? It looks great to me. Just keep it painted and the roof in good repair. Its perfect.

It's beautiful!! Congratulations!