is White house farm being preserved as it was?

[tyler]

Hahaha Brilliant Tyler, was just going to post it for and you beat me to it. 

Still very much the same.  There is a comment made by AE in her COLP statement, something about "Jeremy wanted to keep the house as shrine and would not allow any changes to the house inside and he still wont budge to this day" or something like that? ....I've never been sure about what she meant....

Yeah,realised I just had to save photo to my pc and repost  idiot that I am lol.
I vaguely remember reading AE staing that,but it doesn't ring true at all. The Eatons did not move in to whf until the early 90's so Jeremy was obviously long convicted and would have had no say in the matter at all. Especially since whf and most of its land belongs to the Henry Smith Trust anyway. I guess farming families are too busy to be concerned with decor and AE doesnt appear to be the sentimental emotional type. If she were,she would never have agreed to move in in the first place.

[scipio_usmc]

Yeah,realised I just had to save photo to my pc and repost  idiot that I am lol.
I vaguely remember reading AE staing that,but it doesn't ring true at all. The Eatons did not move in to whf until the early 90's so Jeremy was obviously long convicted and would have had no say in the matter at all. Especially since whf and most of its land belongs to the Henry Smith Trust anyway. I guess farming families are too busy to be concerned with decor and AE doesnt appear to be the sentimental emotional type. If she were,she would never have agreed to move in in the first place.

Some people who are sentimental would want to move in on purpose for that reason rather than let strangers take over.

There are also different levels of shrines.

There are shrines because one is upset and shrines because one wants to remember what they have done.  Murderers often keep trophys and that can end up biting them in the arse.


Jeremy initially told the family he would never step foot in WHF again and wanted to keep it as a shrine to the victims.  Not long after he went inside and ended up helping clean it out.  Did he mean this and rapidly change his mind or was it just an act because he thought that is how a grieving son should behave?  Did he want a shrine to help him relive his glorious crime?  y own sense is he was putting on an act playing the grieving son so said he would never step foot inside again and make it a shrine to the victims. The speed with which he changed course along with other acts he put on all fall into place.

[Alias]

Yeah,realised I just had to save photo to my pc and repost  idiot that I am lol.
I vaguely remember reading AE staing that,but it doesn't ring true at all. The Eatons did not move in to whf until the early 90's so Jeremy was obviously long convicted and would have had no say in the matter at all. Especially since whf and most of its land belongs to the Henry Smith Trust anyway. I guess farming families are too busy to be concerned with decor and AE doesnt appear to be the sentimental emotional type. If she were,she would never have agreed to move in in the first place.

You can just right click on any picture online, copy the image address, paste it here and "wrap" it in "insert image" (one of the "buttons" above - second row number two). It is much faster that way. But good job - and as long as it works, all is good!! 

[guest154]

Clearly a different rug.

[David1819]

There are people who turn things into a shrine, they will leave things exactly as it was as if the victims still live there.  She didn't do that though she moved in and changed what she wanted to. Obviously for a historical place you are not going to do significant renovation changes just decor/furniture changes o suit your own taste.

I much prefer life going on to the kind of crap they did in SandyHook Connecticut.  They decided to demolish the school where Adam Lanza went on his rampage and to build a new one.  What a waste to demolish a perfectly fine building to put up another jkust because peopel have mental problems over the tragedy.  Demolishing the building is not going to heal their mental problems they should be dealt with through counseling etc.

They also plan to demolish the mansion the Lanza's lived in which is another waste to me.  I have to laugh at people who are supposedly so environmental conscious that they waste resources so readily for emotional problems.

I think demolishing a historical place because there was a tragedy would be another tragedy and huge waste so am glad WHF was not demolished.

I did not suggest it should be demolished. But I would certainly want a place redecorated if I was in that situation. I never knew sandy hook was demolished that's is a waste, However what they done at columbine was perfectly reasonable just by redecorating it removing the library floor making a large open space unrecognizable to what it was.

[scipio_usmc]

I did not suggest it should be demolished. But I would certainly want a place redecorated if I was in that situation. I never knew sandy hook was demolished that's is a waste, However what they done at columbine was perfectly reasonable just by redecorating it removing the library floor making a large open space unrecognizable to what it was.

How much to redecorate something is always a matter of taste though wanting to keep something as a momento can come into play as well when the place you take over was owned by a relative who died no matter how they died.

I personally hate the farm style so would have changed everything tremendously.

[Jane]

How much to redecorate something is always a matter of taste though wanting to keep something as a momento can come into play as well when the place you take over was owned by a relative who died no matter how they died.

I personally hate the farm style so would have changed everything tremendously.

I think there are parameters which have to be adhered to in period houses.

[scipio_usmc]

I think there are parameters which have to be adhered to in period houses.

Mainly that is on the outside. In a historical home they even control what color paints you can use on the outside of your own home. The inside limitations are usually more structural as opposed to decor like you can't rip down walls to create an open floor plan.

If someone else owns the home like WHF then you it doesn't matter whether it is historical or not you are stuck with any limitation the owner decides to place and we obviously don't know what those limitations are so that is a fair point. 

If I wanted to live in some old place it would be a castle not a farmhouse.   

[Patti]

Mainly that is on the outside. In a historical home they even control what color paints you can use on the outside of your own home. The inside limitations are usually more structural as opposed to decor like you can't rip down walls to create an open floor plan.

If someone else owns the home like WHF then you it doesn't matter whether it is historical or not you are stuck with any limitation the owner decides to place and we obviously don't know what those limitations are so that is a fair point. 

If I wanted to live in some old place it would be a castle not a farmhouse.

I take it you don't like ducks then or Moo Cow's. 

[lookout]

I shouldn't imagine there are many castles in the States.

[Jane]

Mainly that is on the outside. In a historical home they even control what color paints you can use on the outside of your own home. The inside limitations are usually more structural as opposed to decor like you can't rip down walls to create an open floor plan.

If someone else owns the home like WHF then you it doesn't matter whether it is historical or not you are stuck with any limitation the owner decides to place and we obviously don't know what those limitations are so that is a fair point. 

If I wanted to live in some old place it would be a castle not a farmhouse.

I was thinking more about balance. Don't think anyone would do a retro interior in a Georgian house, for instance. Our farmhouses come in very different sizes and periods. I have friends who live in a magnificent Tudor farmhouse. I've known others who have lived in ghastly modern new builds. Ya pays ya money and takes ya choice.

[scipio_usmc]

I shouldn't imagine there are many castles in the States.

Just mansions styled like them but you need a lot of money to afford one. Most of the nice old mansions have been torn down though.  After the death of the original owner they were usually donated for institutional use, ran into the ground then abandoned, vandals swoop in stealing/burning and then what was left would be demolished to make way condos or smaller homes.

In my younger days I enjoyed visiting abandoned places and exploring them.