Bucks County Designer House ~ Foxwood Manor

Each year since 1975, there has been a Bucks County Designer House event to benefit Doylestown Hospital. Past Designer House homes I've shared with you have been Spring Valley Farm, The Clement Doyle House and Serendipity Farm.  Over the holiday weekend I made the trip down to PA to check out this year's fabulous designer house with my sister Kim and best girlfriend for many many moons, Christina. And there they are now...Hey ladies!!!

The designer house we toured is the historic Foxwood Manor in Jamison Pennsylvania. This gorgeous home dates back to the colonial times with a one Benjamin Hamilton listed as its first known owner.

The first building we encountered is the smokehouse which was constructed sometime during the 1830's. I love the cool etching done on the steps leading up to this quaint little building.

Inside the smoke house were so many beautiful items for sale.

Then it was onto the main building. Unfortunately photography was not allowed inside but I have to tell you that all the interiors were done beautifully!

The pool in the back of the property along with the surrounding gardens were simply breathtaking. 

At the far end of the pool was a beautiful pool house complete with a fireplace, pool table and bar area, Outside was a front porch large enough to entertain a party of 20.

There was a cute little bar area on the front porch complete with a darling bar cart.

Looking back at Foxwood Manor from the pool house.

I hope you enjoyed this mini tour of the garden and pool area of the 2016 Bucks County Designer House. Now that the tours have officially ended I may be able to find a few pics of the interior on the internet to hopefully share with you at a later time. In the meantime remember to stop by on Wednesday evening for another inspirational Share Your Style link party! 

Hope to see you there!

Have a great day!

XO  

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It is not that unusual for me to be in the middle of one project and begin to speculate and research a future project. This one however will have to wait until the spring, but it is never too early to start putting together my thoughts, ideas and a collection of pictures. 

Yesterday  the roofers arrived promptly at 8am to begin work on replacing our poor old, and I mean 23 years old, ugly tan roof. The new color is called Rustic Black from the Heritage line by Tamko roofing supplies.

Wanna see???

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So with the new roof going on you just know there are going to have to be other changes made to the exterior of our home.

One of them will be replacing the tired old 1980's heather blue shutters with classic new black shutters. I did think about painting the old ones black but in my research to see how this could be done I found that it is not recommended to paint a darker color over a lighter color with regard to vinyl shutters. This is because the lighter color shutters are not made to withstand the stress of expansion and contraction that occurs with a darker color. Eventually the result will be the paint failing. And yes I am aware that there are paints specially made with specific bonding agents that will adhere to the vinyl, but urethane resin paints are a bit on the expensive side and then there is the trouble of removing the shutters, painting and rehanging them. Since shutters are relatively inexpensive, only costing about $50 a set, I think buying new for us is the way to go.

The next thing to be done will be to paint the exterior brick white but first I have to ease Mr. Rosemary Lane into the idea. Take a look at these stunning homes with white painted brick and black shutters.

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These next two pictures are amazing before and after shots. Look at this outdated brick after it is painted white.

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It totally transforms the entire feel of the home doesn't it?

To me there is also something so very charming about painted brick.

I think this look will really work on our home.

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What do you think?

XO