Merrily Farms

Creek Cabin

"We loved our time at the farm."
Judi J., Chicago

The First Place They Kissed

"They kept horses and hung tobacco here," the real estate agent told us, but you'll have to tear it down."

An old barn it was, leaning badly with really rusted roof. The planks in the floor were rotted through. "Plus just down that gravel road is a broken old bridge. Really just a pile of rotten old logs. That will also have to go as well." But that agent was a city slicker. I didn't know better because I was a slicker as well.

I mentioned this fact (tearing down the barn) at the local hardware store one cold winter day. (You sit around their blazing cast iron stove and talk a lot on snowy days here.) "But that bridge is where I kissed my wife for the first time," the man at the store told me. "Let me tell you what I can do."

That was the beginning of my introduction to country carpenters and an education in the art of rebuilding barns. They transformed the Creek Barn into the most wonderful studio building you may have ever seen. Pure rough cut hemlock, ceiling walls and floors, still standing at a slant. You feel like your hiking uphill getting to the kitchen sink. But every person that stayed here insists this is the only place they want when they visit again.

Two rough cut stories, it sleeps two plus a child. King size pillow top bed, arched Pella double pane windows give views of the creek and a higgledy piggledy staircase works down to the bathroom, steam bath and professional massage chair.

Tall people beware. You'll bump your head on the original log beams as you enter the bath. Chinked so tightly by craftsmen you can heat it with a candle in the dead of winter. This is a comfortable, Alice in Wonderland escape from anywhere. North Carolina spring water you pay a fortune for at the store on tap...all no extra charge.

By the way you can amble to that beat up bridge we rebuilt as well. Kiss your spouse for the first time again while you stand over the creek...You'll like it I promise! And there is no extra charge. Toboggans available (when it snows) for the hardier souls.

Ask for the Creek cabin. $79 a night...at $499 staying a seven night week saves you $54 bucks!

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