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We still have a cabin for sale near the gorge. We had to list with a realtor since my husband had to move to WI ASAP, so the price is a little higher than originally quoted. However, the price listed with the realtor IS negotiable. Description is below, and you can click on the following link to see pics of the house; if you would like pics of the property, too, send me a message and I will send you pics (I promise this time, as I do have them in my possesion now).
http://www.rhr.com/Consumer/Listing/Lis ... 1&Cookies=

1-bedroom loft (1 1/2 story house) on 1.78 acre in Stanton, Kentucky, mostly wooded & semiprivate, property boundary to middle of Cat Creek, large flat area near creek with in-ground stone fire pit that we used for camp-outs and volleyball but it also has mature trees throughout, large bi-level deck with scenic view of hills, 12X16' shed for workshop and storage of riding mower, vaulted ceiling, exposed joists and posts/beams, new tile floors with stone borders throughout lower level, newer hickory hardwood flooring in loft, new wood siding & newer metal roof, loft with sliding glass door to deck, living room with sliding glass door to mountainside, new wood trim throughout, office or bedroom nook for company under loft with built-in shelves, concrete countertops in kitchen (with exposed aggregate backsplash) and bath, custom cabinets and pantry in kitchen, Vermont Castings woodstove heats entire house, newer digital window A/C cools entire house but not usually needed due to tree cover, fresh paint & varnish, kitchen appliances include Whirlpool solid-surface stove with super capacity oven, refrigerator, and 1100 watt microwave, all wood from local mill, all stone from local creek. Great getaway for vacation, retirement, first home! Call Jamee at 859-948-5492/715-342-1165 for more information or contact our realtor, Lura Justice, at Rector Hayden Reatlors (see link).

Wow! That looks beautiful! Did you build it yourself? I love the rustic decor.

I wish I had an extra $82K. I'd scoop that up real quick. It's a beautiful place.


Stupid low paying jobs........

We didn't build the original house ourselves but all the exterior and interior finish (walls, floors, cabinets, counters, railings, stairs, siding) is completely new and mostly hand-crafted by us, with the exception of some drywall, but we covered it with textured mud to allow for more light reflection in the room.

We're going to miss the house greatly! Hope someone out there will be able to enjoy it as much as we did.

Soooo, tempting. I see the lot is 1.75 acres. How close are the neighbors and what do you see when you are looking off that deck?

If you walk out of the bedroom, directly in front of you is a relatively steep mountainside that you are looking at. It ascends pretty steeply from there, but there is a flat spot right off the deck that we sort of cut into the hill and landscaped with mostly native plants to keep mud from sliding onto the deck (as it did when we first moved in); works perfectly and is a great place for a bench or self-standing swing. I'd lay in bed and watch chipmunks and birds play around out there. From there you also see the runoff come off the mountainside and cascade over a fallen mossy tree a little ways up from our house. This little "ravine" runs next to our house and under our driveway and makes a wonderful sound after it rains! (So do the tree frogs)

Once you walk out onto the deck, to the left is more mountainside (wonderful shade-loving plants like trilium and jack-in-the-pulpit on that side); if you are standing on the right side of the deck and looking out toward the front of the house you basically see mountains (hills to those out west) across the valley and I think you can see the yard of one of the houses across the creek. From the creek side of the house, you cannot really see the neighbors across the creek from the house in the summer, although you can see them in the winter.

From the "lower yard" (about 60 feet below the house) by the creek you can see the neighbors directly across the creek. We are hoping that this will be remedied somewhat by understory trees that we planted between the many large sycamores lining our side of the creek; however, we didn't want to block our view of the creek.

There are only three homes on our side of the creek, and we are the last one. The house is actually nestled back in the woods at the end of a gravel road that crosses the creek and runs behind a very small group of houses (which are all on the other side of the creek). So, it's semi-private but not completely secluded. In other words, you CAN sunbathe nude on the deck but would not want to run around buck naked by the creek (unless you like that sort of thing).

Oh, there is also a resident kingfisher and green heron that fishes our creek and a group of about 7 bats that gleen around on our trees and by our fires at dusk.

Our neighbor on our side of the creek owns 25 wooded acres behind our house, which is too steep to develop. At the top are nice short cliffs that we have bouldered around on and great flat places where we have camped; not our property, but we don't make a mess and our neighbor doesn't complain. A neighbor kittycorner to us across the creek owns the property that runs to the other side of us (opposite the entrance to our property from the gravel road), so it is unlikely to be developed since he bought the place for a natural retreat.

Hope this info helps some.

just seems kinda $$

just seems kinda $$

What do you think a fair price would be? We are willing to negotiate if you're interested in the house.

Jamee, thank you for the detailed description. I may go take a look at it this weekend.

jameehubbard wrote:

just seems kinda $$

What do you think a fair price would be? We are willing to negotiate if you're interested in the house.

don't really know...but I keep thinking that it would be hard to find a job down there....or a job that would let you be that remote without just making it your weekend house....and then $80,000+ for a weekend house seems kinda steep....but I bet there's someone out there that's lucky enough to be able to have a job that remote...but then take into affect that it looks like you guys have done a lot of nice work to it...I guess I only know the real estate around cincy and closer to lex....

have you had it appraised?