Hi everyone, I am Jen and I live in Orange County, New York. Our area is also called The Hudson Valley. We are located about an hour and a half north of New York City and South of Albany. I have lived in this area all my life, in fact I have lived on the same piece of land! About me…I am married to my high school sweet heart Jerry, we have been married for 23 years and together for 31 years. We have two wonderful children, Courtney is 16 and Kyle is 12. We also have two dogs, a doberman/greyhound mixed named Harley and a long haired dachshund named Eddie. I am a stay at home mom and my husband is a high school teacher and track coach. Just this past year I have opened up my own online business selling primitive and country home décor items. It is called Hickory Hill Primitives. My husband and I make some of the wood items featured and we enjoy working together as a team!
About my home, as I said, I have lived on the same property my whole life. We live in the property behind my parent’s house. We cleared the land ourselves and had a modular home built here six years ago. Our home was pretty much builder grade everything and we have worked hard together to make it into the home of our dreams. Just last summer we put in rustic oak floors ourselves and we have redone two bathrooms, putting in tile and making it more towards our liking. We make many of the wood items in our house- we made a bowl rack, quilt rack, peg rail, shelves, a faux fireplace and so on. We so enjoy making each item and enjoy the fact that we made it together. Our home is our sanctuary and we love spending all our time here, together as a family.
Thanks to every one of The Primitive Pantry for welcoming me to the forum with open arms, I have known many of you for a while and it was like coming home when I joined the forum. Hope you enjoy the tour of my home!