This was such a joy to watch because the house and all of its contents are wonderful. I really hope someone can rescue all of the antique, vintage, retro and art deco pieces. Even the old odd n ends lol
I really enjoyed this place. Nice tour, and respectfully done. I notice the Singer treadle is the one you have at the beginnings of the tours. My dad sold them for over thirty years , and was an excellent restorer. He could make the machine go back to a perfect stitch. He brought home to me, a sewer,even as a child, to test them out. It was lots of fun! Ive refinished a hoosier cabinet, a duncan phyphe dresser and a bed, and just love the beautiful heavy carved woods. ( Then found out they were worth less than if i had left them alone!) But, we enjoyed them for over thirty years! Thank you. Sweet memories.😊
I would love that. We bought an old house and did some renovations to make it livable. We would love to know how many families lived here and their stories.
Abandoned in the 1970s or 80s. It sounds like Elsie on the greeting card lived alone there and then passed away. Why was the furniture moved around and the contents cleaned out? Maybe these pieces were pushed aside to make way for what they really wanted to take. If there was next of kin, wouldn’t they have sold the land? If it was sold, would the new landowner leave the house as it is? Elsie may have been taken to the hospital alive or dead way back then and that was that. People would have raided the house for the more portable items over the years. That bedroom with the toilet was probably for an invalid that either Elsie was caring for or was Elsie the invalid? Lots of questions. The answers lost in the distant past and it is distant. Nothing there is newer than 40 years old, apart from the VB cans left by squatters.
@@anSealgair Someone will own it. It’ll be on someone’s farm. The farmer may have built a newer home somewhere else on the farm or it may have been a farm managers house that wasn’t needed anymore. Farms used to require more workers than they do now. They’ve stacked the fireplace mantles like they were planning on selvaging them at some point. It was probably empty but liveable and slowly became empty and not liveable. Anyway, some farmer will own that and be aware of exactly what is in there.
@@outbackeddie I've seen way worse come back to life seen on tv this woman wanted to rebuild her childhood play place (never mind it was a barn) when her and her husband went to it ,it was a pile of wood when 5hey were done it was incredible
That cabinet with the green glass in middle is the old fashioned Ice box the right side had the tin or Zink lining where the block ice would have been put
Good morning Paul,I'm speechless,what a Gem ,that beautiful house had everything to live comfortable and so simple ,I'm like you born in a farm and everything was comfortable and beautiful is nothing like that in the city homes of today simplicity and cosines is the key in this beautiful homes ,I can't believe the amount of 1930s furniture and that gorgeous Singer ahhh how much treasures were left ,I hope no-one ever finds it to vandalize it ,I would love to take Brooms and dusters and clean it up just spend a day in it remanisin of all happy times ,I hope you go back ,the video wasn't long to me I could watch more ,I hope you enjoy the rest of your holidays and bring us more beautiful treasures like this ,big 🤗 from a Frenchy in Australia 🇫🇷🇦🇺 🤗💝👍👍👍
Hi Francoise :-) A real classic Gem for sure this one. very unique layout compared to other Aussie farm houses of that time which definitely suggests the farming family were quite well off and prominent for the area. So many grand old things left behind....so many memories in there no doubt too. Thanks for watching again Frenchy :-)
So much to be salvaged! All the fretwork, the stained glass doors, the round glass cabinet, the furniture with the green tiles, sewing machine, mantels and all the HARDWARE from the furniture and doors and kitchen cabinets. Many different eras in this gem. I wish you had opened the piano bench to see if there was any sheet music, and also the boxes in the storage room to see what was inside.
As someone who deals in antiques and estates and goes into a lot of old houses and barns, I noticed as you went on you kept clearing your throat and even said, "I need water". That places was covered in mold, you might not have seen it clear in person, but the furniture was covered in white powdery mold. That stuff coats your throat thick. Sometimes it can cause a couple days of a sore throat, drippy nose, etc. Just be careful stirring it up 🤪
Makes a glass eye weep - So many beautiful 'days gone by' furniture goint to ruin - I'd love to have this place renovated back to it's original glory - Even the tiled front porch is lovely, and the Singer sewing machine and fire mantles, grammaphones, wood stove, bedroom dresser, pressed tin ceilings...OMG
In the past people used to live in one house for their whole life , imagine in this house was full of life, joy some were laughing , talking, running around, mother calling Dinner is ready.. Yes mom coming all sitting around a dinner table the father saying grace all holding hands praying, all started eating you hear spoons and forks hitting plates kids giggling ..Mother stop it eat your food ..father listen to your mother ..yes dad.. All ready to go to bed Goodnight dad goodnight mom goodnight kids sweet dreams.. Where are they now, who were they ,what do they look like we don't know all they left behind is this sad old house a house with full memories some happy some sad ...
My granparents lived in their home their whole life, it was so nice to have a huge house to go to in the weekends so our parents had a break from us kids. We had to go to church and then afterwards we got 50 cents for candy which was a huge treat as we never got treats during the week days. Her oat meal was amazing.
At one time this was a glorious home! From the paneling, the trim, the doorway embellishments, the wallpaper and the size of the rooms! The builder of this home was doing well.
@@drewbarka833 Lot of farm houses like this in the states too, some of the old stuff is almost worthless, the television is worth about 100 dollars I googled, 1958. And that's all clean and probably works, this one here is probably broke
Farming had good income then, & a $, went a whole lot further, than today - there's virtually nothing but junk, for $1, or 2 even, as $2 now, was 1 unit of the old currency - the £ pound.
I love this house.. wish I could buy and renovatie it ..And I do like the man walking around to show this.**Thank you for that **. for the respect he shows for the place and the stuff in it .!..
I am always afraid you are going to find a Squirrel sized spider when you explore. This is a very lovely house full of treasures explored on a gorgeous day.
Beautiful sewing machine! I just noticed the handles on the stove are HANDS! I HAVE A 1914 Victrola. The cabinet with green tiles is Art Nouveau! Great TV! 1960s. Beautiful hoosier cabinet in kitchen. Metal lined compartment for keeping foods cold. Bakelite handles on some of the furniture! I looked up the Kelvinator. It's from 1952.
Hi Jean and awesome info you have provided here, thanks! :-) So many old things here, so want this house to be filled with life again! Thanks for watching :-)
Yes lovely art deco kitchen cabinet. I understood the tin lining was to keep bread 🍞? Also, as far as I know, coloured glass is just that, stained glass has painted pictures and is kiln fired. 😊
Omg I want to move in there and restore it to its original state, love the feeling of this home and who doesn't love a fridge with such a large bacon compartment!! Kitchen is amazing!! Will be watching this one more then once, thankyou 🙂
Happy New Year! What a fabulous house! It was so deceptive from the front as it looked fairly small, but it was huge! There was furniture ranging over many decades from the Victorian/Edwardian bedroom washstands with the marble tops (they would hold a large bowl and jug of water and the marble wouldn't get damaged like wood). There were a couple of pieces of beautiful Art Nouveau furniture, as well as the Art Deco and the kitchen appeared to be 1950s. The room with the rat - the first thing you touched was a top cover for a sewing machine. The border on some of the walls at picture rail height was original from the 20s/30s. Such an incredible find and I loved the longer video! Thank you!
Hi Lest We Forget :-) great comments again I knew you guys would know some things in there I did not :-) My fav house this one I think! haha :-) Glad you enjoyed too, thanks for watching :-)
You are killing me! You said "bench" at the begining...it was a cabinet! All those beautiful pieces of furniture ..and you don't open the drawers!!! You open a book and leave it on the floor... I hope you speed it up on your next video. You need a new adj. "Pristine" damn I wish I had a dollar for everytime you said that word!
@@debrastory9457 You are complaining about the best explorer on YT, who has probably built up quite a bit of knowledge on what he sees, but humbly allows us to tell him what we are seeing. I have watched other explorers in the past who have no respect for the properties they are looking at (something which really angers me) or are constantly advertising or asking for donations. Urbex Indigo does none of this and finances all of his videos himself, which is ironic because he is one that I would donate to - even as a once a year thanks for all of the interesting explorations that he brings to us. Another irony is that you complained about him not opening drawers, but then in the next sentence tell him to speed it up in the next video. You can't complain about attention to detail when you are not doing the same yourself! '-) I take it that you had a bad day and just wanted to 'share' your mood, instead of moving on. Odd that you picked on Urbex Indigo to do so! P.S. You also complained about what you deem to be the overuse of a word - may I just say that overuse of the exclamation mark at the end of a point that you are trying to make doesn't make it look more powerful or even valid. To me it states the opposite. I would be much richer than you if I had a dollar for rolling my eyes at every post that overuses them. Hope you have a better day and engage brain fully before commenting when in a strop. :-) Edited to add my P.P.S. I have just watched this wonderful video again (thanks for the prompt!) because I wondered about the use of the word 'pristine' and couldn't recall it. Had to laugh as the word(s) that were actually used were 'pressed tin' - an accurate description which was used twice for different ceilings (there were many and some were wooden) and once for a fire screen. Sorry again that you had a bad day and that your hearing was off kilter, too! :-)
The old singer sewing machines and gramophones remind me of a lot of the stuff that my grandparents had in their home but hardly ever used anymore. Another thing that struck me was how incredibly well preserved everything is because of the dry Australian weather. If This Were in Oklahoma everything probably would have been rotted out by mold already and the ruse would have collapsed from exposure to storms.
Don't know why for sure either. But sometimes when a person passes away, the family is just too far away or too busy to deal with the estate. When we were house shopping years ago, there was one where a lady had passed. The kitchen drawers we're still full, a piano left in the living room that had been rained on by a leaky ceiling, and her slippers were still sitting side by side by her bed. Very sad. 😥
Hi guys, so glad to found Aussie doing the exploring, I've been telling everyone that Australia isn't old enough to have very old manors. So thank you great job. Kate from Australia
Awesome thank you Kate :-) Welcome to the channel. Yes we do not have that many compared to other countries! But I know of more :-) Cheers for watching
This was both beautiful to watch and sad too. Love the way it sits like Time stood still.... But also sad that no family was around to care for the home and it's contents. This made me really think about the things I want to pass on to family,& friends before I go... thank you for taking us along.. This was so fascinating to watch..
This is exactly what people should do with their belongings. There’s always the do nothing for years that rush in at the last minute for everything. All you do is call up the worst, rotten lawyer and take it all.
This makes me want to cry. How beautiful was this place!. I love this makes me think of all the family days and nights spend there. I was born 1961 , so the 1970's was the best years of my life.
SAD, ONCE THAT HOUSE MIGHT BE A HAPPY FARM FAMILY LIVING THERE. THERE'S A LOT OF ANTIQUES, IN BIG CITIES WILL PAY A LOT OF MONEY. ESPECIALLY THE FIRE MANTELS.
What a beautiful place that must of been! I appreciate how conscientious you are about leaving things as you found them and being gentle to an old house.
No your not bad. Taking them would be rescuing them. If it was mine I would prefer it be taken. Most likely owners cannot save it. I would at least try to contact them and ask.
Well, who would have thought a piano located in a 1980’s abandoned house would be out of tune? I can’t believe it played at all. Love the stained glass in the doors. (Almost looked like plexiglass.) Btw, the Kelvinator refrigerators were made in Wisconsin until the 1980’s or so. Thanks for the tour of this once beautiful farmhouse!
Hi Kristine :-) Yeah the piano may still come up nice with a clean and tune up! :-) Gee I really enjoyed this old place, got it in the best time of day too. Photos were in great sun set lighting :-) Cheers for watching
The doors are typical late Victorian coloured glass. Usually ruby and cobalt glass often with obscured centre panel of etched glass. The green obscured glass is probably later. Those doors are still popular 😊
Most kids dont want mom and dad's old things they want new and modern these things would just be junk to them but the homestead is home and they may not want to part with home and childhood memories its a way to hold on to mom and dad after they passed
Wow wat a find!!! I was in awwww at the furniture...I found myself touching the screen to c if it was almost over lol I didn't want it to end....thnks for the tour great find...
When I was a child my grandparents lived on a farm like this. The extra rooms were for the hired help.When they got old and moved to town they didn’t take much more than clothes. All that old furniture, the antiques, were considered junk and left behind in the old summer kitchen. Gramma wanted modern stuff be cause she was “sick of old junk”.
Great house and I'm really enjoying the furniture!!! I've never seen a wood stove with little hands on the handles before. That was so cool! Surprised no one got into the house and vandalized it....perhaps people are more respectful of other people's belongings where you are from.
I'm guessing this to be a deceased estate that maybe had no-one to inherit it and the local shire has been in a battle with the national trust or the State Trustees over what to do with it ever since. Owned by members of the squattocracy I imagine.
The cupboard doors are opened, and the pattern of things on the ground suggests to me that someone did go in and loot it to a small degree, but fortunately they didn't vandalise it as such.
@@triarb5790 Happens everywhere in the world, you sound very racist against Australian 🇦🇺. Your name doesn't sound Australian Tri Arb, I wonder where you are from?
Those antiques and that house, wow ! I could close my eyes and see it when it was in its prime. What a beauty. Those rats sounded like chickens clucking lol. Thank you so much for sharing that country 'mansion' with us.
Glad you enjoyed it Laura, my pleasure. Yeah the clucking had to be from outside the wall but those initial noises were rats moving in the furniture. :-)
@@othelloferrari6942 I'm with you on this one. 😊 I have very little in the way of modern technology - I don't even have a car! Never have. I grew up with a very basic lifestyle in the late 1950s to 70s, including cooking with a wood burner, and I still enjoy a very simple life. I have no power tools for my garden or tree pruning, only a lawn mower for the lawns. Everything else I do by hand. No dishwasher, no clothes dryer, no microwave oven (by choice), I still do old fashioned preserving and jam making, cook my meals from scratch, etc etc. ❤️ Long live simplicity!
Probably grandparents home and they left it to their children and grandchildren. Since they are all well off, they are letting the house and everything in it rot away. The house was built to last several lifetimes and generations. It's very sad to see it rotting away.
Sometimes, unfortunately, there is no one in the family left. I feel like even if you dont care for houses, you could at least sell it so someone can restore it.
What a cracking little place and explore. I reckon the house is not quite as old as you're indicating, especially as there is quite a lot of bakelite around the place on the door furnishings etc and that wasn't invented until 1907. Unless it was extended upon as you mentioned I'd estimate the place to be about 1915-20. All the best and thanks for a wonderful explore. 👍🏻
I like your line of thinking Simon :-) Also power did not make it out to the country areas as quick as it did in the larger towns so more often than not these old country homes had power adapted later. But another sign of a 1915 date build is the terracotta chimney pot which were popular around that time. :-)
What a treat! As an official old person I can confirm that the orange window dressing is 1970s. Having grown up in an old farm house in the 60s, the black shiny door knob plates are very familiar to me. When my family moved in we found everything from lanterns like the ones in your video to newspapers from the 1800s and a chest full of old-timey petticoats! The border work on the walls in your house, though is, I'm guessing, 1980s. Great video thanks for sharing!
That room with the toilet was probably for someone who was bed bound. I look at some of that furniture reminds me of my grandmothers. That farm family had to be one of the wealthier farms originally, love the video, I can feel that it takes me back in time
Esse Century Cookers were English manufactured from 1958. The stand with the marble was a Wash Stand, just loved this property. I have been privileged to stay in many similar older homes and have experienced similiar vintage furniture. So many eras in this home. What a find! Brings back little girl memories of visiting aunts and uncles in the country, thank you😊
This old House was absolutely amazing. The whole layout was just very unique and just so mesmerizing. It looks like them other rooms that were falling apart seem to be like the oldest part of the house, where were they located at front or back of house? Definitely want to see the rest of them outbuildings. Great find keep on sharing!!!
Absolutely agree with you Jason, those side rooms in ruin sure did look to be the oldest and more simple, maybe there was a more humble style cottage to begin with or it was the farm hands quarters. :-)
First thing is a new roof over the entire house then all new wiring then the water system (new pipes I’m living in a house built in the 30s and it’s beginning to fall apart so much so my landlord offered me first choice to buy it for 6500.00 I don’t have the money to sad so sad I love this old house 😪
Repairs on this house would cost an estimate of 50 to 60,000.00 don’t know who would go for that kind of a loan plus there is so much repair I doubt the bank would loan enough to buy it and reconstruct it there’s something special about this “ole house” I can just feel it♥️♥️♥️
If you are concerned about any property you adress it with local council ( dept empty buildings) to have it secured and safeguarded from vandals and firebugs .also abandoned dwellings are a fire hazard because of potential wiring probs or vandalism )
@@daleleeder3534 I wish I had the money and resources to but and restore it. I know its tricky with land titles if it has been absorbed in to a new farm or still on the same farms land. A sub division is required to buy it which can be tricky apparently ive heard.
I did not realise how tricky it is, its difficult here in the uk too and we have far less space in the uk, houses and lay empty for years or if they are listed due to age, sometimes all to often they get suspiciously burnt down by unscrupulous developers or they pull them down as the fine is not harsh enough, such a shame to lose our heritage this way
What a beautiful home. It's sad that no one is able to care for it. It would be so wonderful to restore it to its original glory along with all the furnishing. The doors are stunning as well. A picker's paradise. Thanks for sharing.
I am a lover of anything old and this would be heaven to me. There is thousands of dollars in that gorgeous house. The wood work and tiles. Love it. The house looks like it's in relatively great shape. It makes me sick to see beautiful things being left to rot when someone could love them. Be safe
This was so good that I had to watch the whole video again. The 'room ' that was open, had a beautiful kitchenette (next to the bath). This was from the 20s to 40s, before they had the 50s kitchen put in. The open door at the top right was lead lined and that would keep meat cool. Below the beautiful glass part of the cabinet and above the drawer and cupboards was a pull out shelf. This would be used for rolling out pastry or as a worktop. Everything that was needed was within reach in the cabinet. The later kitchenettes of the 50s and 60s were more enamel than wood, but they too had the pull out shelf to use as a worktop. There was just so many wonderful things in there.
@@pruehardwick7951 Thank You Prue! I have seen a number of those cabinets in the UK, but the one in the video was spectacular. I almost bought a pre-war wooden one about 20 odd years ago, but it wasn't quite as nice. A few years later they became quite popular as did much many wooden antiques, but brown wood has fallen out of favour again apart from with those who appreciate it. The things in that house that will always be popular are the Art Nouveau and Art Deco items. Everything in that house was not the 'standard model' - it all had that little bit extra. Even the sewing machine in the front room had fancy additions to the drawers and sides and would have been more expensive back in the day. Forgot to mention in my earlier posts that all singers can be identified as to when and where they were made by the serial number on the front (there is a metal piece in front of the main stem on the right side of the machine that holds the side wheel). I could watch in-depth videos on so many individual items of furniture in this house, because it was so wonderful to see them!
The farm house 's floorboards seem to be original still. My grandmother owns a similar "Singer" sewing machine table...or at least I think she does. But it seems to be in decent condition and I love the design for it. Looks like the tv you found might've been from the 50's or possibly the 60's most likely. This farm-house is chockfull of everything you can find. And I love it.
Thank you for the wonderful hands on and very respectful tour. To see a find like this makes your mind go to the different centuries of joy love and trials of normal life to the people who lived there. Makes e happy and sad mixed together. Thank you again.
My Grandma (in-law) gave me hers and I made the mistake of not getting it while she she was still with us. The family didn’t let me have it and it went to a daughter. She didn’t do anything but store it in an outside building where it burned up in a fire. 😢 I’ve wished so many times I had taken it while she was living.
I would LOVE to know the history of this house! It is HUGE for late 1800s-early 1900s and in amazing condition for being abandoned in the elements for decades. This would be incredible to restore. I would LOVE to live there. Wow. Just beautiful. Thank you!
Every time I see a old fridge like that, I remember as a kid, two kids playing hide and go seek and got locked in an died.. Still brings tears in my eyes.
When my mother was around 10 Year's old her younger cousins were playing hide and seek and one of her 6 Year old cousins hid in a Trunk and closed it. The parents and neighbor's looked for hours for him. Finally the children that were playing with him told the adults, "We know where he is, but he is sleeping and won't wake up 😢😥" Obviously when the adults went to the house 🏘️ next door to the Walk up attic the boy was DEAD from suffocation.
