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Meadow Green
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side of the hall, a formal dining room is furnished with traditional pieces. Off this dining room is a walkway to the original fireplace of the summer kitchen. A head of a wild boar is mounted over the fireplace, and presides over a delightful outdoor area for eating and relaxing.
Pam and John Kiser have filled the interior spaces of their home with an eclectic mix of furnishings, seamlessly melding styles and eras, but always with an emphasis on beauty and taste. Nature, in the form of stuffed birds, feathers, reptile shells, antlers of all kinds, and dramatic arrangements of greenery and twisted branches, is ever present. Large mirrors over original mantels reflect silver pieces, family crests, hunting prints, and other fascinating finds from all over the world.
The main entrance to the home is up a broad staircase to a decorated porch that feels like a tree house, leafy and cool. Inside the main hall, visitors see the three story curved staircase, with a banister made of strips of chestnut in one continuous piece. On the right side of the center hallway is a formal living room. The golden hue of the walls shows off the many portraits, formal drapery, and soft furnishings which recall a bygone age. Across the hall is John Kiser’s office, leading to a bath and dressing area. The hallway is lined with oil portraits of dogs, paintings both old and new.
The staircase to the third level features family photos, and leads to the master bedroom suite, son Pierce’s room, and a guest bedroom. Pierce’s room is hung with old school maps, charts, and school posters, and continues the nature theme. In the master bedroom, dramatic black and white curtains, and black frames around mirrors and old maps provide splashes of color against the light colored walls and bedding. Pam’s dressing area is off the master bedroom, and is filled with fascinating artifacts, books, and more souvenirs of nature.
Outside the home, a pool and pool house have been added. Murals, painted by Steve Kenny, completely fill the walls of the pool house. Perennial plantings, bams, a small kitchen garden, a tree house, and other outbuildings contribute to the feeling of a life lived in nature, and with nature in Rappahannock County.
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