Briar Hill Road, Hopkinton, New Hampshire
This 1785 Hopkinton home is just meant to showcase collections. Books, plants, furniture -- everything looks good with this classic house as its backdrop.
Surrounded by 200 year old stone walls and nineteen acres of hills and woods, the property has its own collection of fruit trees and gardens.
When researching the house, I learned that the most recent owners are avid fine furniture collectors.
The library is perfect for your book collection, but notice how well it also showcases a coffee table by furniture maker Garrett Hack that has splay legs and inlaid details.
So, probably because I'm deep into miniature crafting right now, I really started noticing the furniture in this house, and appreciating how skillfully it was made.
Take the living room coffee table, crafted from fiddleback mahogany...
The artisan even made a few in miniature for another project. So cool!
The breakfast nook table may or may not be the commissioned tilt-top table in popcorn ash that I read about. This room and the kitchen clearly were meant to show off collections, though.
This pretty screened-in porch rounds out the listing's downstairs photos:
There are six bedrooms upstairs. The house has three bathrooms and 4,080 square feet.
It's nice to see how well hand-painted furniture works in this house too.
There are also three outbuildings to house collections of cars or guests.
Apparently one of these buildings is an indoor spa with a resistance pool (not pictured).
I'm more interested in the "fully carpeted cottage with workout space."
If it were mine, my workout would be collecting furniture to fill the cottage.
There appears to be enough room for a sleeping/sitting area upstairs...
to be furnished like this...
It also has this conservatory area with plant propagation tables and a seating area.
I'm pairing the spaces with similar rooms by designer Bunny Williams:
Everything about this house and gardens encourages you to collect the very best.
