Our Home
Years of service as a soldier and A teacher brought us here…
Our beautiful twenty-eight hundred square foot country home sits on 30 deeded acres, with an additional nine plus-acre parcel available. This charming country home was constructed in 2008 using Structured Insulated Panels (SIPs). SIPs integrate structure and continuous insulation in one panel — reducing thermal bridging, simplifying construction, and delivering measurable performance gains over traditional stud framing. Then the home was sided in high rib steel that matches the detached Morton Building. This combination makes the home stronger and more energy efficient than most any other form of normal residential home construction.
To further insulate and make the home more energy efficient, the current owners replaced the failing doors and windows with top-of-the-line fully insulated, secure, and energy efficient doors and windows. Finally in March of 2026, a new shingle roof was done using one of the best shingles on the market - TruDefinition by Owens Corning.
It has three full length porches. The front porch is the full length of the home and is where the current owners spend almost every morning. The second porch is just off the kitchen at the back of the home and has full shade in the afternoon. It overlooks the neighbors’ horse farm and, on many days, you can watch them train their competitive racehorses while you drink your tea. The last porch is concrete and is a walk out from the finished basement.
The house was designed to have three bedrooms and two full baths. The original great room has been fully remodeled into a six hundred plus square foot eat-in kitchen. The master suite is on the main level adjacent to the kitchen. It has a bedroom, a walk-in closet, a full bath, and a laundry.
Downstairs there is one bedroom, a family room, a full bath, a walk-in closet, and a storage room that is also plumbed for laundry. The current owners use the basement as a game room, bar, office, and the storage room as a physical fitness area.
The Morton Building measures forty-five feet by thirty-six feet. It has a concrete floor, three electric garage doors and a walk-through door on the front, and one fifteen-foot sliding door on the rear. The current owners added additional overhead shelving around three sides that significantly improves storage space. On the east side of the Morton Building is an RV pad that is wired and plumbed for immediate use. The current owners use the RV pad as a recreational area. They have a fire pit with Adirondack chairs, a galvanized tub they use for soaking, a putting green, and a stainless-steel table to clean game and fish. The driving range mat allows the owners to chip into one orchard out to seventy yards, a second orchard out to ninety yards, and a mowed area for irons and woods one-fifty to two-hundred yards. All items on the RV pad will convey.
The deeded thirty acres is a mixture of mowed living space, pasture, and hardwoods. Originally, there were approximately twenty acres that were rented out for row crops to a local farmer. At the time the farm was purchased it produced approximately two thousand dollars a year for that rent. The current owners are not farmers, but hunter-fisher-conservationists. Upon discovering a single covey of native bobwhite quail in 2019, they ended the crop rental and paid Roundstone Seed to drill in native warm season grasses and native and heirloom wildflowers. The native grasses and wildflowers have increased the numbers of all types of native wildlife and songbirds that use the farm. There are now multiple coveys of quail and hundreds of rabbits residing on the farm. The owners do not hunt quail, rabbits, or turkey on the farm. They have also planted multiple hybrid chestnuts and persimmon trees throughout.
In 2024, an above ground garden was added. It consistently produces vegetables, fruit, and herbs to the delight of the owners.
There are four tree stands in the deeded wooded area and one box blind the current owners use to hunt deer. The box blind has a shooting bench and a woodstove inside. There is also a one-hundred-yard rifle range in the bottoms on the southern boundary and a seventy-yard archery range in the mulberry orchard.
The additional parcel of nine plus acres was purchased from the neighbors after discovering it routinely held ducks. Wood ducks use the temporal pond throughout most of the season. Migratory waterfowl including mallards, black ducks, green winged teal, blue bills, ring necked ducks, hooded mergansers, Canada geese, and sandhill cranes also use the pond and the adjacent flooded timber when the pond is at winter pool.
The two orchard areas have approximately two-hundred feet of cultivated thornless blackberries that were purchased from an Amish nursery in 2019. In the best summer they produce approximately five pounds of berries per day. There are mulberries, chestnuts, hazelnuts, and persimmons that round out the orchards.
The solitude is coupled with the hillside location of the home and Morton Building. As you walk out onto the porch with your coffee you are often greeted with incredible views.
The farm has a Magnolia, Kentucky mailing address, however it is physically located near the neighborhood of Hudgins or the town of Summersville. It is forty minutes to Elizabethtown and twenty-five minutes to Campbellsville. Here is the original Zillow for the property.
Here are some comparables in the same area for reference.
All appliances are conveyed. They include a new dishwasher, and a new convection oven with an induction cook top. Also included are twin refrigerator freezers, stand-up and chest freezers, and the clothes washer and dryer.
The home has excellent water pressure and quality city water provided by the Green River Valley Water District. The average monthly water bill is less than $50. The home has a septic system.
The electric is provided by Taylor County RECC. The home and the Mortan Building are on separate electric meters and bills. The average monthly electric bill is less than $200 total for both meters.
The home originally had split units installed to heat and cool the home. The original units needed to be replaced when the current owners bought the home. The plan was to replace them after the windows and doors were done to “tighten up” the home’s energy efficiency. The current owners realized the house was so “tight” and energy efficient they have not replaced the split units.
The heating system includes two gas stoves, which cost less than $700 annually to run from late fall through early spring. The cooling system is composed of two window units and one portable unit. They are normally installed in May and removed in September. Many months of the year it is only necessary to open the windows at night to cool the home.
The current owners are the second owners and purchased the farm in July of 2018.
The property is for sale by owner for $510,000.00. All prospective buyers must provide a copy of their mortgage pre-approval to schedule a showing. For more information or to schedule a showing please email michaelabell71@gmail.com