139 Meadows Ln

This house is available for immediate occupancy. Can consider 3/4/6/9/12/18 month lease scenarios. Will discount rent to $1,500 for single occupant with no pets. 2 pets should be the maximum allowed, there is a fenced area (of about 800 square feet) that can hold a dog. Occupancy limit is 4 people at most, 2 or 3 is probably more logical for what it is. This house is technically the guest house of the original house on a 4 lot plot.

There is no corporate application process. If you want to move forward, bring a printed copy of your credit score, which is available for free. Challenged credit can be overcome by increased deposit or more detailed documentation proving income.

We built this house to look like a 150 year old barn, but the house works like a new house, which it is. It has some unusual features related to a barn. You might consider this a vanity art project that also functions as a house. It does work quite well as a house for someone who enjoys and accepts the unusual, but we did not build it to suit the mass market, and the layout is a bit quirky. Folks with a bunch of furniture and whatnot are probably going to find the house is not big enough for their things. The house looks bigger than it is, it has a rather long facade but is relatively narrow. People with limited mobility especially may not want to deal with the bedrooms being on the 2nd and 3rd floors.

On the ground floor, there is a utility room that also has a toilet and a shower. That room has a closet and some extra storage, it works well as a central location for laundry. It has a very nice Kenmore washer/dryer pair. That is next to the kitchen, which abuts the main room downstairs. The kitchen has a good amount of storage space, and a newish gas stove/oven. It also has a refrigerator and microwave oven.

All levels of the house have some interesting barn wood trim which came from a local barn that was over 100 years old. This kind of effect is not for everyone. The pictures are quite accurate.

There is a spiral staircase inside the house going to the second floor. There is also a more traditional staircase on the first floor deck which leads to the second floor deck and bedrooms. There are decks on all three floors. The two second floor bedrooms are the same size and almost the same decor but different paint schemes. Both of these bedrooms have granite vanities with cabinetry, sinks and nice mirrors, as well as vintage armoires instead of closets. In between those bedrooms is the landing for the spiral stairs, plus the stairs to the third floor. That area also gives access the second floor bathroom, which has a shower/tub, and of course a sink and a toilet.

The 3rd floor was added for stylistic and climate control purposes. It has its own little deck and is a nice spot far up in the trees. You could use it as a third bedroom or an office. During hot months, it functions as a cupola, helping the house purge heat, which is the logical purpose of the construct. That room has a very nice vanity with a copper sink, a very expensive and detailed mirror and a nice light fixture. It also has a futon up there, which will stay with the house. The main rooms all have ceiling fans, as do two of the decks.

The house may especially appeal to work from home professionals. The mechanicals of the house are all new. Four routers and six hard wired connections in all the main rooms means wifi everywhere connected to the 1 GBPS internet service. Wifi runs up to about 700 MBPS, hard wired connections test out at close to 900 MBPS.

Many of the materials are repurposed, such as the barnwood from the old Travis family barn east of Dorchester, (the land that time forgot). We also have some lovely used items that came from very expensive homes that were being remodeled. The list includes mirrors, vanities, light fixtures and granite countertops. We used antique doors throughout most of the house, some came from a farm house, most of the exterior doors came out of an old school building in Healdton Oklahoma. One door originally came from India, but fits in very well with the effect. We have barn doors that lead to nowhere, kindly supplied to us from a local farm. While the house does respect standard building codes and works like a normal house, this is NOT your basic suburban home and does NOT look remarkably like most of the other homes in the U.S.

The house is well insulated and rather shaded under the trees. It is warm in the winter and cool in the summer when you run your units. Aircon units are new, and built into the walls. The house is about 10 minutes to Pottsboro, 20 minutes to Denison WalMart, and about 1/2 mile to the water (Lake Texoma). The only road is in and out, so there is not a lot of traffic. The area is quiet and safe.

The house has a few items that could be removed upon request, like the very nice stools and the second refrigerator. As already noted, the kitchen has a stove, refrigerator and microwave, and the utility room has a nice washer and dryer. All of those appliances will stay. There is some room for furniture on the first floor, you could fit in a couch and/or table downstairs. It will not take a lot of furniture to be able to move in, all you really need is your beds on the second floor. We can help move your beds to the second floor bedrooms for you.

The house has a garage and a set of storage rooms, which are integrated to the building, built in the style of barn lean-to's (see pictures). One lean to is an extra storage room with a wood floor that will be additional storage for the occupant. The south lean-to is a garage for the tenant, it has a concrete floor and you can park a vehicle there. It also includes an additional locking tool room with a work bench.

We are offering this very unique house for $1,600 per month ($1,500 in some single occupancy/no pets cases). Deposit will depend on credit and the particulars of your situation. Deposit will be at least $1,500. We will be available to fix issues that may arise with the house. We built it, we lived with it from day one, we know it intimately.

Occupant will not be allowed to make mechanical or artistic changes to this house without written approval. Glue strips can be used for pictures and wall hangings, but not nails or screws. Paint will not be altered. Armoires will not be moved without approval and assistance. Haphazard modifications will not be allowed. If there are changes to be made on this house, we will make them. As the house has many unusual features, it is NOT recommended for people looking for a generic home. The house was designed and built by and for people who accept and enjoy the unusual.