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“Wow! I wish I could just move in here!”
“I think I’ve died and gone to heaven!”
Those are exclamations Nancy and Jim Thomasson have heard repeatedly at their lovely antiques and American handcrafts shop and charming colonial bed-and-breakfast in Washington.
Indeed, a feature on their enterprises in the Spring, 1989, issue of Country Almanac magazine opined: “George Washington should have slept here!”
The article should have asked, ‘What are they up to now?”
When that article went to press, Mrs. Thomasson was operating Country Heritage and with her husband and Mr. Thomasson ran Heritage House, the bed-and-breakfast they had restored and decorated with antiques, crafts and folk art from the shop next door.
Since it appeared they have been hard at work on a project which they think formulates “a new equation in fine country living.” Drawing on Mrs. Thomasson’s extensive experience in marketing American handcrafts and folk art, Mr. Thomasson’s expertise in collecting and restoring antique furniture, and their guests’ expressed desire to have a getaway in the country, they have begun a company called Country Turnkey Properties.
“It was a natural for us,” says Mrs. Thomasson. “So often guests at the house or shop would say that they would love a country property, but had little time to hunt for or build or restore a home.”
Since their limit was time, not money, Mrs. Thomasson and Mr. Thomasson thought they could provide an attractive service.
“Heritage House was the exam
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