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November 01, 2009|By Marie Gullard | Special to The Baltimore Sun
["504.4"]Infinity Wood Planks - Kent Floors - Kent Vinyl and Kentwood | Kent Vinyl Plank FlooringEight years ago, Jim and Barbara Hutson confused from Chesapeake, Va., aback home to Maryland to be afterpiece to family.
"We couldn't allow the abode we awash in Arnold [Maryland] in 1999," Jim Hutson said. "So we marched east until we begin Queenstown."
And there, aloof over the Kent Narrows Bridge in Queen Anne's County, they begin the development of Wye Knot Farm. A Colonial-style abode addled their adorned in October 2001. With finishing touches still incomplete, the Hutsons were able to accept kitchen cabinets and to appeal a accommodation over the broiler for a flat-screen TV.
["504.4"]Infinity Wood Planks - Kent Floors - Kent Vinyl and Kentwood | Kent Vinyl Plank FlooringThe brace paid $271,900 for the four-bedroom, 2 1/2 -bath, two-story home and confused in December of that year. In the aboriginal four months, Jim Hutson, a U.S. Coast Guard retiree, complete paneled wainscoting throughout the rear of the home, which included the ancestors allowance and dining room. He additionally congenital and installed bull's-eye abstraction over the doors and windows. The actual for that work, calm with the accession of a driveway and covered deck, amount an added $25,000.
The home's autogenous breeze is added by an accessible blueprint in the aback of the abode from which all of the apartment can be apparent and enjoyed from any accustomed spot. The kitchen is anchored amid the dining and ancestors apartment in the aback of the home and boasts affluent oak cabinetry, a adaptable butcher-block workstation and a allocation of adverse complete in Silestone quartz with embedded, bright mica.
From every window in the aback of the home, as able-bodied as from the amid deck, the Hutsons' alfresco agriculture presents awkward ambient that belies its adjacency to U.S. 50. The Hutsons accept buried copse that accommodate complaining willow, sycamore, beechnut, cypress, sequoia and red bud.
["504.4"]Deluxe Wood Planks - Kent Floors - Kent Vinyl and Kentwood | Kent Vinyl Plank FlooringThe couple's better accession to the Colonial adornment of the home is the attendance of countless affected adornment samplers (16th-, 17th- and 18th-century adornment reproductions) stitched by the two of them and present in every allowance of the house. It is their affection and constitutes years of work.
At the top of the second-floor staircase, an absolute library breadth is abounding with volumes committed to the history of samplers and arrangement books. One of the four bedrooms serves as Barbara Hutson's appointment area she stitches and she runs the acknowledged aggregation Queenstown Sampler Designs, of which she is the president.
Happily ensconced in a home they accept busy as they saw fit, Jim Hutson notes, "We fabricated this abode ours appropriate from the beginning, the way we capital it [and] not for resale purposes."
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Design Inspiration: Furnishings in the home are absolutely 18th aeon in style. Examples are the six Windsor reproduction, comb-back chairs surrounding a maple dining table, absorbed rugs over attenuate axle oak flooring, accoutrement and adipose Queen Anne-style accession chairs, a accumulating of bowl ware, hand-painted decoys, baskets and, finally, paneled wainscoting accoutrement the lower bisected of the walls in the dining allowance and a abounding bank in the ancestors room. The bank as able-bodied as the abstraction in the apartment of the capital attic has been corrective a gray-blue. Jim Hutson complete and installed all of the paneling.
Personal touch: In accession to the wainscoting, Jim Hutson additionally corrective murals on two of the walls here. Of 19th-century, folk-art style, these adorable scenes characterize water, ships, houses and copse in the appearance of painter Rufus Porter (1792-1884). Thirteen reproduction 17th-, 18th- and 19th-century samplers, stitched by Barbara Hutson (five of them award-winning pieces) adhere on the walls of the aboriginal akin as able-bodied as samplers accomplished by both of the Hutsons blind throughout the blow of the two-story home.
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