A Pair of DC Expats Scored This Historic Farmhouse on Craigslist, Then Absolutely Transformed It

Images by Ron Blunt.

Ron Blunt was into country living ahead of it was cool—or at least ahead of a pandemic despatched 1000’s of his fellow urbanites skittering out of town and absent from town crowds. Back in the early 2000s, Blunt’s function as an architectural photographer took him to West Virginia, in which he encountered a group of creatives and DC expats dwelling happily amid the lush—and a great deal-less expensive-than-the-city—environs of Shepherdstown, 90 minutes away. He before long left Washington to sign up for them. A handful of many years just after that, in 2006, he persuaded his new girlfriend, Keleigh Swan, to consider ditching Kalorama, in which she was apartment-searching, for the less complicated life, also.

Swan, now CEO and resourceful director of Blunt’s pictures studio, had one significant problem: For her to go away DC, they had to discover a home that was “really fantastic.”

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