Above: The exterior of the 1835 farmhouse, with meadows and gardens left wild around it, situated at the end of a two-mile-long dirt road. Photography by Greta Rybus for Remodelista styling by Annie Quigley.
Here’s a look inside, captured on the stillest, hottest day of the summer. The result: stripped-down and striking interiors that, like the farm, are a constant work in progress. “That was part of why the price was accessible, while also affording us the opportunity to work with a mostly blank slate, to strip down the rooms to a point where the craftsmanship and history of the structure could be accentuated.” They took the walls down to the plaster, sourced extraordinary vintage finds from Craigslist and Goodwill, and added hides and bleached-white bones, relics of their butchered animals. “I was drawn to the simplicity and bare-bonedness,” Lafleur says. As they set about tilling the land-they grow vegetables, herbs, and flowers, and raise chickens and woodland hogs-they also turned their attention to the 1835 farmhouse, drawing from instinct and learning as they went. “We felt like we were suddenly in on the secret that is the midcoast of Maine,” Lafleur says. The couple found the 35-acre property on Maine FarmLink, a division of Maine Farmland Trust, when they were living in Vermont and looking to make a move.
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It might seem like an out-of-the-way place for one of the most striking interiors we’ve seen: not in Portland or one of Maine’s well-known, touristy small towns, but 24 miles inland from the seaside port of Camden, in Maine’s wooded, mountainous midcoast region, at the end of a two-mile-long dirt road, several miles from the nearest grocery. Driving north through increasingly rural backroads, past ponds and lakes, on my way to stay the night, I was grateful for GPS.īut the quietness you feel when you get out of your car at High Ridge Farm belies a thrumming level of activity: In true Maine do-it-yourself fashion, Lafleur and White run a self-sustaining farm, continually strip and update the old farmhouse, let guest rooms on Airbnb, and serve land-to-table tacos on Fridays and community dinners monthly in the restored early-19th-century barn-all with a sense of reverence for the Maine land. Meet the new Mainers: Katee Lafleur and Andrew White, the thirtysomething couple running an under-the-radar farm in the tiny town of Montville, Maine. Icon - Check Mark A check mark for checkbox buttons. Icon - Twitter Twitters brand mark for use in social sharing icons. Icon - Pinterest Pinterests brand mark for use in social sharing icons. flipboard Icon - Instagram Instagrams brand mark for use in social sharing icons. Icon - Facebook Facebooks brand mark for use in social sharing icons. Icon - Email Used to indicate an emai action. Icon - Search Used to indicate a search action. Icon - Zoom In Used to indicate a zoom in action on a map. Icon - Zoom Out Used to indicate a zoom out action on a map. Icon - Location Pin Used to showcase a location on a map. Icon - Dropdown Arrow Used to indicate a dropdown. Icon - Close Used to indicate a close action.
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