Dilemma: What do you do when your Real Estate in Lawrence, KS has a plethora of selling points? This 1982 built farm home really has all the details and is just south of Lawrence, Kansas. On more than 20 acres, there are 2 acres of woods, 18 of pasture, a pond, a creek, two barns, and multiple fruit trees. The house has three bedrooms, but extra bedrooms could easily be added to the full, partially finished basement. The kitchen countertops are quartz, from Spain! There is an extra large workshop that is heated and cooled, and the garage is plumbed for compressed air. Outside the house is a wraparound deck, beautiful landscaping and sidewalk, and also a calming sitting area next to the waterfall feature that trickles down into a fish pond. What a nice dilemma to have. Quality farm house... 08/03/2008

Looking for an interestingly unique mud room design?  While many upscale homes have a mud room that looks classy, very few of them have the practicality or the size of this design. A Lawrence couple built a working 20 acre farm with a Federal Farm number.  They needed a practical mud room and ended up building the largest "mud room" I have ever seen!  The 28' x 40' mud room was built with a double 2 x 4 stud configuration to allow for double thickness of insulation.  It is rustic in its appearance and yet has the washer, dryer, plumbed for air compressor, heating unit, hidden air conditioner unit, ceiling fan, painted floor, various shop equipment, tools, and workbenches.  The photos help to show how the multi-purpose mud room serves as a weight room/exercise room/mini-museum/shop/utili... 08/02/2008