If It Were Mine

I did a little selective editing to the house portrait above. As cute as a button as that little house is, the whole picture includes a breezeway that connects it to a timber-framed, barn-inspired addition.  It instantly reminded me of the inn and barn from the movie  White Christmas . They even have similar windows.... Instead of being near the ski slopes in fictional Pine Tree, Vermont, though, the Tenney house is near Mount Monadnock in New Hampshire. Like White Christmas , Tenney House is also similar to the movie Holiday Inn, in that a simple farmhouse got a heaping helping of expansion in the name of hospitality. Let's start in the 1795 portion. Fittingly for a Christmas movie house, the red front door opens to a view of the piano. That bright living room is in front of the cozy family room: If it were mine, I'd bring in plenty of old-fashioned Christmas charm, like this: { source } My scheme is little more like  The Holiday than White Christmas, but it's still som...