Down A Gravel Road

Down A Gravel Road
Finding Curry Road

Welcome to the Adventures of Living On Curry Road

Rye, Arkansas is located eleven miles north of Warren, AR, fifteen miles west of Monticello, AR and approximately thirty miles south of Pine Bluff, AR. Rye has been the home of the Curry family for over five generations. This family has farmed this land producing cattle, chickens, timber. The area is beautiful and the family culture is equally impressive with its generations of family that continue to live by the standards that made America a great country.

Rye, AR and the Curry family are a story of strong American values and the building of personal character, the love of God and a lot of very hard dedicated work. Donald Curry and Kay Curry are the current owners of most of the original farm land originally developed by the generations of Curry family. Kay Curry is the daughter of Jimmy and Hazel Baker and married Donald over fifty years ago. Both have continued the legacy of the farm life on Curry Road. Donald and Kay have raised a family of two daughters and one son. Mark Curry currently operates a cattle operation as well as four chicken houses on his part of the property. Lisa Tooke, wife of Dennis Tooke of Lake Charles, La and Donna Curry, of Little Rock, AR plan to retire back to the farm land when thier retirement time comes.

Jane and I were asked to help in a restoration of the 104 year old house shown above. We are so blessed to be allowed to have input as well as provide a labor of love to help restore this house to its original beauty for Donald and Kay Curry

As Jane and I came into the property with our RV, we came down the gravel road leading to Curry Road. We came down this gravel road and had to stop and take a picture. We are including that picture with this overview so you too can see the beauty of this area.

It reminded us of the book “The Painted House” by John Grisham and we hope you will get the same response.

Jane, Carl and Charlie Pierce







Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Moving Right Along,,,,, The Hall Way!!!!!!

Finally, we've gotten to the hall way.  By choice this was to be our last inside project because the hall way was the 26' storage room that stored everything in.  Literally, golf clubs, pictures, tables, chairs, you name it and it was there.  The hall way was about 26' long, approximately 5' wide and very dark when the Sun Room door was closed.  It was so dark and depressing we actually never took a picture of it in all its glory.

Just so you know, in the older days homes were built with basically the sleeping rooms and bath room (if one was actually inside the home) and often the parlor  were built separately from the cooking side of the house.  This house was similar but not totally constructed that way.  We have what appears to be two front doors side by side.  One enters the living room, the other enters a bed room.  The living room, dining room and kitchen are on one side of the house and two bedrooms, the sleeping room and the bath room is on the other side of the house.  Both sides are connected with a long hallway down the middle of the house.

Anyway, we've completed the hallway and it has just opened up the entire house just as we expected.   We had to repair the ceiling, paint the "pond green" paneling, and install our flooring.  It was worth every minute of labor and effort.  .

A view from the bathroom area looking back towards the sun room shows off the value add of the hallway.

Looking back from the sun room towards the bathroom and master bedroom is equally appealing.


 This view is from the master bedroom looking into the hallway.  The door on the right is from the dining room.  We mentioned earlier that we were moving the washer and dryer to the mud room and you can see why now.  We will be building another closet where the washer and dryer are here and gain a lot of storage space while removing the laundry equipment from view.

Finally a view from the bathroom into the hallway and dining room really ties all of this house together.


We are excited, this is the final major interior project for the remodel.  Its taken 16 months of a lot of work and planning.  While we have more to do, the end IS in sight.  We'll be doing final touch up projects on the interior but boy are we blessed to have this much done.

Thanks Donald and Kay and everybody else that's helped.

Won't be long till we have the "Open House" and we really look forward to that.


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