This house on the Terrace Park Home Tour had me at its gracious front porch with stained beadboard ceiling, porch swing, and ceiling fans. The home of former town mayor Chuck Rockel, this grand old house was built over a century ago with stones gathered from the nearby Little Miami River.
I had to take a picture of the original toilet that was in the half-bath. I had never seen one like this in person before.
Second-floor landing (the home has three floors)
The old claw-foot tub in the master bath.
A little girl's room.
This was a lovely old home and the current owners had done a lot of work to restore it to its former glory. On the third floor was a finished attic used as a guest room. There was a tiny windowless space off of it that we were told was used as the maid’s room “back in the day.” Without air conditioning, the third floor of the home was very warm. I can’t imagine how anyone slept in that alcove during the summer without even a little air coming in from a window!
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Hi Julia, thanks for showing such a beautiful home, that toilet tank was very different, I’ve never seen one like that before.
That is a cool toilet tank! You gotta love all of the woodwork around all of the openings. Though I’m not so sure of the decoration they did in all of the corners of the openings. It doesn’t seem to work for me.
OH my goodness, I love this house! I love your blog too! I’ve been reading for a couple weeks, and its great! I have my own blog about me and my husband searching for the perfect home, and this is the perfect inspiration!
What a great (real!) home. It looks so cozy. Thanks for posting these! I love to go on home tours but rarely have time so this is great.
This home is so beautiful! It reminds me of my grandparents’ house!
it’s beautiful! ah! really lovely.
Thanks Julia..I enjoyed the tour.
Is it just me or, compared to the rest of the home, the kids’ rooms seem like afterthoughts? The little girl’s bed looks unmade; the boy’s bed shows an exposed mattress. I just expected something nicer in a home like this.
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Oh. Again! Scrumtuous! That was sooo funny about your ping with the word yawn attached. Had me cracking up!
That potty is so interesting.
(And I’ve never said THAT in a comment before!)
I love that home. What wonderful use of color. The kitchen has me intrigued. Are the walls blue and then that set of cabs on the sink side blue, too? Pretty!
Yes, I watched TD last night. Finally, a decent challenge. They had to decorate various spaces within a business office, and their clients were workers in the company. Not quite midway through the challenge, the designers had to switch rooms, which meant they had to work with the materials the previous designers had chosen. Believe it or not, Wisit was sent home. He just wasn’t on his game in this challenge.
Love the colors used in this home. It’s so cozy.
This house is gorgeous. I love old houses. I’m probably weird, but touring this house made me feel like I was meant to live in a house like this, like I belong there. Anybody else feel like that? No? Just me then. Okay.
Swoon……….And I love that toilet! Who’d have thought the words “love” and “toilet” would appear in the same sentence together?! And Holly (last comment): I totally belong in an old house so absolutely agree with you!
I watched Design Star…I think that it was one of the better ones for sure, but I’m still not loving it. Although Mrs. Ricky Schroeder didn’t mention her husband, or show a photo of him topless, once. Progress all around. The Wisit end-of-show opera in full-on falsetto is totally worth watching it for.
I like their paint color choices. Is that a window seat in the bathroom? How odd. Um, I think I’ll sit down and relax here for ten minutes before I get in the shower.
And the placements of that little desk in front of the group of windows is driving me crazy. It’s too tall for that space, so it blocks just a bit of the view.
GORGEOUS house!! Loved all the rooms!!
For some reason I couldn’t get your page to open up yesterday, and it was well worth the wait! This home is breathtaking. It could possibly be my dream home.
Heather–
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we used all of the same paint colors in our home, but I love the way they did the stairwell.
Cool house! The details always blow me away in older homes.
This home is beautiful. THe porch, the floors, all the windows – just gorgeous!
I am loving that one! Such a beautiful house and so thoughtfully updated. reminds me s of the Inn we stay at in Seattle. Thanks for the tour.
Janet
i love this one. wow.
how fun to be able to do this home tour!!
k-
This house is so cute. I love it!
This tour is wonderful Julia, but you KNEW I’d love it
I can’t wait for the next installment. Oh and if I can get my act together I’ll try and join the tour
rue
I love this series on older homes- you just can’t beat an older home!! so pretty – love the toilet too! I have never seen one like that, in person OR in pictures.
JOni
loved this house. never seen a toliet like that before. i would move in
I love this house. Very beautiful.
I love this house, and found the details interesting. I was surprised, however, to see in the boy’s room that there was paint tape left on the bed’s footboard and no sheet or skirt covering the box spring!
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My sisters just discovered this site and sent me the link. We grew up in this house. Really, my parents purchased this house in 1955 and did the first major renovations on it. The window and door trim is original. The tiny powder room was carved from an old butler’s pantry off the kitchen, which never looked this good while we lived in the house! We didn’t have air conditioning, and the kitchen was so warm in the summer that we often ate on the back porch. The piano I learned to play on sat in the bay window of the living room, except at Christmas when the tree took that honored space. My sister was even married in that bay.
I’m curious if the attic has been converted into a master suite, as the master bath in these photos clearly shows the angle of the roof on the third floor. When I was young, that little room held a sink on the same wall, a toilet in the closet and a cot in the corner where the clawfoot tub now stands. When we were being very brave, we’d have sleepovers up there. The rest of the attic was unfinished and home to the occasional bat, so a night in the “maid’s room” was always an adventure.
I could ramble forever on the joys and trials of growing up in that house, in that village, in that time but I’ve already gone on long enough. Thank you so much for sharing these photos. These new owners have done a lovely job and I’m sure my mother would be pleased…with everything but the exterior color. That house has always been white, and will always remain so in my memories.
No kidding? Seems like a wonderful house to grow up in! Interesting that it was white, too. It’s been a few years since I toured this one, but I don’t think the attic was a master bedroom. Seems like there was a twin bed up there. I remember it was crowded and hot, so we didn’t linger long!
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