Amazing Retreat Outdoors+Indoors

I’m Tom, a design-build professional & my wife Lindy’s background is international furniture. We’ve combined our talents to create this retreat with BEAUTIFUL interior with signature pieces of furniture from around the world and WONDERFUL outdoor amenities like the lush landscaping, salt water pool, cedar barrel sauna and hot tub. We initially had no intention of renting it since we already rent our park-like farm near Chapel Hill & our home on BH Island but have decided to also share our Winston home with other families to create wonderful FAMILY memories. (We do not rent for parties or events or to groups that will disturb our neighbors with loud noise and the maximum capacity of 13 guests has got to be honored at all times during your stay).

We’ve all heard that “old saying” in real estate that says “Location, Location, Location” and this home is perfectly located in the West End Historic Neighborhood walking distance to some great restaurants, parks and places to get a beverage. Average travel time by car to WFU is 8 minutes, Reynolda Gardens 7 minutes, WFU Baptist (now called “Atrium”) Hospital 5 minutes, Forsyth Novant Hospital 9 minutes, Old Salem Museum & Gardens 5 minutes, Stevens Center of Performing Arts 4 minutes, the 3 top rated Yadkin Valley winery tours are 35 to 45 minutes, NC Zoo is 55 minutes. In addition to restaurants within walking distance our home is located within 2 miles of over 100 other restaurants so variety of options in dining out will never be an issue…..the only issue will be having to decide which of the many good restaurants close by to visit:-).

To tell you a little more about our 100 year old plus historic home: We bought this particular home because of its great location and the fact that unlike most historic homes, it had large rooms and was not all cut up and maze-like inside and instead had a great flowing floorplan with more openness than the typical historic home and had 10 foot ceilings both downstairs and upstairs with beautiful heart-pine floors and lots of huge windows and natural light with way more openness and light on the interior than most historic homes. Lindy and I and our talented team of craftsmen have spent the last 16 months doing a total renovation of the interior of the home and also creating the oasis-like back yard with its salt-water heated pool (heated from late April until sometime in early October), 6 person cedar barrel dry heat sauna and 6 person hot tub and lush landscaping.

Unlike a lot of high end homes that are furnished in a way that make you feel like you have to be overly well behaved we welcome you to kick back and fully enjoy yourselves and put your feet up on the coffee tables and relax and restore. You won’t feel like you’re living in a museum in one of our high-end homes: We create homes for ourselves to enjoy and when we do decide to share one of our homes with other families to rent for them to enjoy we want them to be FULLY enjoyed and not treated like a museum. All of our homes have a contemporary and laid back and comfortable feel that welcome being fully “lived in”. If there is any one hallmark to the homes we create for ourselves to enjoy and then share with others to enjoy it is that they are “happy homes” that will help you feel good even if it is cloudy or rainy outdoors.

While we do want our guests to fully enjoy and create family-centered memories we also ask that they take good care of our homes by not having a party (unless it is a family centric children’s party like a birthday party:-) or consuming too much alcohol, and that is why we do not accept instant bookings and instead screen our guests to make sure they are family-centric groups and not renting our homes to have a party to have an alcohol centric vacation where too much alcohol is consumed. RESPONSIBLE consumption in a non-party family setting of course is absolutely fine and I even own a microbrewery (I bought the historic building in Wilmington NC that Front Street Brewery is located in with no intention of owning the restaurant/brewery inside the building but somehow did end up owning the restaurant/brewery:-).

We especially enjoy renting to multigenerational families and that has always been true at our other homes we also rent since we really do get a lot of satisfaction knowing that multigenerational families are making special memories together at our homes but whether you are a single generation family of just brothers and sisters or cousins or even a three or four generation family that includes grandparents or even great grandparents, we welcome you to rent our home in Winston-Salem or our 6 bedroom home on a beautiful park-like farm near Chapel Hill that also has a salt water swimming pool and accommodates 13 or our 4 bedroom home on Bald Head Island that accommodates 8 to create some wonderful family memories.