Featuring the homes of Kelly and Travis Fliehman, Ann Willis and Fran and Richard Nord, tickets are now on sale for $10.00 at Ann’s gifts, Brenda’s Beanery, Montage, The Bistro off Broadway, The Coffee Pot, The Flower Patch, The Ivy League, and Tropical Isle. On the day of the tour, tickets will be on sale for $12.00 at the door of the first home visited. Children under 5 are admitted free.
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The Fliehman Home,8314 121 St. Rt. 121 North, combines a contempory feeling inside to a home with over a hundred years of history. An inviting fireplace is the focal point of the Fleihman great room. |
The great room opens into an airy kitchen and a dining room with crown molding. From the kitchen window the landscaped lawn, pool and pool house are clearly visible, making it easy to imagine children at play. A lovely year-round sunroom and patio give even more access to outdoor living.
In the great room is a staircase that goes up to a balcony leading to two large bedrooms, including the Master, which has his and her walk-in closets and an attached bath with a Jacuzzi. There are three additional bedrooms in the business area of the home. Tastefully decorated throughout, this home also has Italian-tiles that extend from a hallway into a laundry room, which is larger than most kitchens.
From the first-floor rooms where she lives to the second-floor area where tourists stay, her entire home has been refurbished and redecorated to take advantage of every inch of space, including a unique tiled shower on the first floor that has been cleverly constructed and concealed beneath a staircase. There is also a claw-foot tub in the upper bathroom that invites a leisurely bath..
Other outstanding features of this home are one open and one enclosed porch, where guests can sit and enjoy the rural countryside. A short distance from the home is a barn which Anne has converted into a studio “get away” for guests who want more privacy. A bedroom loft overlooks the living room and kitchenette with Ann’s artistic influence everywhere in the décor. The barn sets next to the stone foundation of what was once a larger bank barn. Although the area is already used for parties, Ann, whose hobby is country-western dancing, has a long-term plan for a dance floor to be installed where hay wagons and tractors once stood.
Descending the stairs to the lower level of the home is like entering a vacation resort with over 5000square feet of most everything a family needs for fun and entertainment. In fact, the Nords call it their Florida House in Ohio. From a large family room complete with its own kitchenette and large-screen TV to two guest bedrooms and a fully equipped exercise room, it extends to other rooms that offer everything from a pool table, dart board, table tennis, and music Best of all is an indoor, heated pool with an automatic pool cover and walls that are a hand-painted mural of the coast of Maine completely surrounding it. The mural depicts the ocean and the rocky shore where the Portland Lighthouse stands - - all reminding Fran of Maine, where she grew up. Built at ground level to take advantage of the natural slope of the land to the north, it has its own entrance and exit onto a slate-tile patio and a beautiful waterfall area.
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Visitors will be well rewarded by the styles, decors and personal touches that make each of these homes offers for the LWV 2012 Tour of Homes.