Andes, New York
Escape to Bryant's Brook, a beautiful, unique cabin that's surrounded by woods and completely secluded from all neighbors but easy to access all year round.
Lovingly built with pegged, hand-hewn barn beams, rough-cut logs and wide-plank floors cut from the surrounding pine-covered mountains, this unique home is both rustic and utterly comfortable. Fully furnished with beautiful local antiques, two woodstoves, and an artesian well, but with a modern kitchen, and digitally monitored central heat, it's the perfect place for a romantic ski trip or escape from the city for a couple, a big family or a group of friends.
The three main bedrooms are up a spiral staircase, but if someone has trouble with stairs there is a sunroom with its own woodstove off the kitchen that can be used as a bedroom. Two bedrooms upstairs have double beds, and the third has two single beds and child's bed. The spacious living room has a hide-a-bed sofa and a woodstove that opens to function as a fireplace, a fieldstone hearth, and a picture window looking onto the pond. The french doors open onto one of the two back sun decks.
Off the kitchen is a spacious covered front porch with a gas grill. There is also a campfire up in the woods, by the stone fence, with a large serving table, grill for the fire, plenty of wood and kindling, and lots of seating.
Surrounded by protected woods on all sides, the property includes an apple orchard for you to pick apples, an organic garden with vegetables, berries, and herbs you can help yourself to with consideration. Our pond is off the living room, fed by the spring that winds though the 2.5 acres of landscaped lawn and gardens. Please respect the line between our property and our neighbor's - the pond up the hill is theirs, and the line between our properties is marked.
This is kid paradise! There is a toddler bed, pack and play, potty, safety gate, and a high chair... There are toys and games our kids are happy to share (with care, please!) Well-behaved dogs are welcome, there is a dog bed, and dogs can run off-leash, we're surrounded by a beautiful old stone wall, woods, and a stream. Please keep them off the neighbor's land, there isn't a dog-proof fence dividing the two properties.
Please don't smoke inside.
Our home is on its own, we have one neighbor up the hill through the trees, please don't stop on their driveway, the bridge or their land. We are about three miles from the picturesque village of Andes, which offers terrific antique shops and boutiques, its own museum, several galleries, outstanding restaurants, and live music.
In the winter, if you want to ski, it's only 20 minutes from Belleayre ski area, 30 from Plattekill, and 1 hour from Hunter. Also, it's one hour and fifteen minutes from the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, 40 minutes from Woodstock and New York City is a 2.5 hour drive.
In June, July and August, we give preference to weeklong rentals, from Friday to Friday, and we only take shorter bookings two weeks in advance.
There is a $150 cleaning fee regardless of group size. It's charged with the rental fee.
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It was exactly what we needed. Perfect place to disconnect from the day the day and reconnect with nature. Our dogs loved it!
Nice property. It was very wet when we were there. It was very wet when we were there. We did enjoy watching the hummingbirds. There were several places around where we could hike and we enjoyed it very much.
Had a very disappointing start in this house. - No cleaning after the previous guests!! Our host had mistaken the date of our arrival! It meant that we, on the first evening of arrival, had to spend some of our precious holiday time cleaning a filthy fridge, changing dirty bed sheets, emptying the dishwasher and - of course - spending time searching for the things we needed for all this!! It did not exactly feel welcoming!! However, things got settled after having had an ok dialogue with our host. So, despite an unsatisfactory start we did eventually come to enjoy staying in the charming old house. The outdoor surroundings were terrific, and we enjoyed the rich bird life right outside the windows/house, and as well we had great fun studying all the toads in the pond. Quack, quack!! As for the kitchen area we would like to pass on a comment: we did find it quite messy. It wasn't easy to find basic things such as bin bags, dishcloths, tea towels and some of the kitchen equipment.
Beautiful place with nice surroundings, The perfect getaway weekend with family. It was a pleasant stay.
The property was nice. Landscape also beautiful. It was impossible to communicate with the owner. I sent him an email two weeks before our arrival with questions regarding the house and the area since we were traveling with two 18 months old. Never got an answer. I texted him a few days before our arrival, no answer as well. Additionally the house wasn’t properly cleaned. I took some images of dirt under the beds, empty glass bottles and other stuff that we found. The kitchen shelves and fridge were full of expired stuff, such as flour, sauces and so on. Therefore we could not use any of it although in the instruction it was written to replace them in case we finished something. On top of this there was a power outage and we did not have power for 6 or 7 hours, something that is very common up there we were told. This is a piece of information that you want to give your guests especially if they are traveling with babies. Since he did not reply to any of my attempts to contact him, we did not have any chance to gain any additional information about the house or the area that could have been useful for our stay, except for the ones we had from the vrbo property check-in/out instructions. Be open to communciate with your guests is crucial if you rent your property!!!!!!!!!!
I truly enjoyed the property. It is well kept and preserving nature appears to be a priority. Planting new tress a pleasure to see. Love all the unique antique touches. Had a huge snow storm such beautiful pictures. Would definitely want to go again
My husband and I had a good week. Our two dogs loved, running around the property off leash chasing the frogs. The spiral staircase was a little much for us? Our 2 small Dogs were scared to try to climb them so we had to carry them up every night which is a pain but we made it work. it rained a few days and with the rain came flooded yards and the stream rose and soaked parts of the yard as well which made it a little difficult to play in the yard with the dogs, or hangout at the fire pit but you can’t control the weather. Overall, we had a relaxing week
Beautiful house, had everything we needed and more! The only thing I would suggest is an A/C, other than that everything is perfect!
We had a wonderful weekend the house it’s amazing.
We loved everything about our time in Andes! The house was charming and the property was stunning! If we didn’t have to eat and didn’t want to take advantage of the local hikes, we would not have left the property all week. My husband and dog LOVED playing together at the pond closest to the house. The dog had the best vacation ever. I adored the cozy sun porch and reading while watching my daughter play in the creek. My 17 year old son was thankful for the reliable WiFi :). We watched movies on the projector in the evening and the French press made fantastic coffee in the morning. The only things to note is that the spiral staircase is steep and narrow. Our dog (8 years old, 50 pounds) could not manage it. And bring slippers! Thank you Tim for sharing your house with us! Our pup “hunting” frogs at the ponds will remain a cherished family memory. It was an incredible family vacation!
Overall we had a good time, the place could use a good through cleaning, and the decor is very eclectic and a bit spooky, the land is amazing beautiful back yard lots of space for dogs and just enjoying the outdoors.
mostly tranquil, but not too remote. beautiful landscape and wonderful property, relaxing, also pretty accoutrement and trinkets. charming cabin! but also aging and/or delicate (e.g. drawers, cabinets, windows, other fixtures in need of fixing or updating). Lack of a couple essentials and not easy to find everything (e.g. in kitchen), nice-looking China looked like it shouldn't be used but couldn't find other dishes. Good but not great amenities. If we were there in the winter I'm sure it'd be fun to use the stoves, which I think the not-wet and cut firewood is designated for, not the fire pit. entertainment system was a bit tricky, but communication was great via phone and issues resolved. nothing in garden or orchard in harvest season I guess bc only maybe found a couple crab apples near the large shed. The pond looked way too swampy for swimming; I suppose if you're really hot from a hike you could splash around in the creek. Overgrowth on deck stairway made it impassable comfortably. Verbose, perhaps too much so, instructions included for various things. All in all pretty nice! although things like the belongings and slight clutter can make it feel a bit like you're intruding in someone else's place/space.
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