Quality defines the experience.
We know that the quality of the things with which one interacts defines the experience. From the weight of the towels, smoothness of the sheets, and textured cotton under your bare feet when you step out of your bed, every sensation impacts the experience you have during your stay at Old Story Farm Bed & Breakfast Inn. So we pay attention. We sun dry your sheets whenever possible and iron pillowcases so that when you lay your head to sleep you experience fresh air and smooth cotton. We have kept the old floors and purposely covered them sparingly with woven cotton rugs, so that - hoping you walk about in bare feet - you feel the smooth paint on the warped old boards interspaced with soft cotton. We provide pine scented, NH made, goat's milk soap that brings inside the smell of the large white pines that grace the grounds like a lakeside camp.
We also choose to provide specially chosen blankets, quilts, coverlets and duvet covers - and wash them - rather than triple sheet. We believe that triple sheeting, though cleaner than an unwashed bedspread, is still a cost saving measure for hotels and inns, not a quality enhancer. We believe in providing real and beautiful quilts, wool or cotton blankets, coverlets or duvet covers, and pillow shams. We feel that the texture, color and smell of clean, home-style bedding complements your sleeping experience better than sheets.
The following is a list of our product selections, purposefully chosen as highest quality, locally made, or organic:
Old Story Farm made scones, sticky buns, coffee cakes; and cookies;
Old Story Farm grown fruits, vegetables and herbs;
Organic cotton towels;
Pine Cone Hill 100% cotton sheets and matelasses;
100% wool blankets from MacAusland's Woolen Mills;
Brahms Mount cotton and cotton/linen woven blankets;
Pine Cone Hill down comforters and LL Bean down blankets;
Real maple syrup from Crow Valley Farm, Hopkinton, NH;
Kate's Homemade butter (from Maine);
Our very own eggs, (our hens are free range unless there is snow and fed organic grain);
Organic produce, and sometimes baked goods, from Concord Food Co-op, Dimond Hill Farm and Gould Hill Farm;
Goat's Milk Soap from NH's Kearsarge Mountain Soaps;
Nespresso coffee maker and milk steamer;
Dash & Albert rugs;
Bulk Shampoo and Conditioner in dispensers (so we do not pollute the environment with all those tiny plastic bottles!).
We also choose to provide specially chosen blankets, quilts, coverlets and duvet covers - and wash them - rather than triple sheet. We believe that triple sheeting, though cleaner than an unwashed bedspread, is still a cost saving measure for hotels and inns, not a quality enhancer. We believe in providing real and beautiful quilts, wool or cotton blankets, coverlets or duvet covers, and pillow shams. We feel that the texture, color and smell of clean, home-style bedding complements your sleeping experience better than sheets.
The following is a list of our product selections, purposefully chosen as highest quality, locally made, or organic:
Old Story Farm made scones, sticky buns, coffee cakes; and cookies;
Old Story Farm grown fruits, vegetables and herbs;
Organic cotton towels;
Pine Cone Hill 100% cotton sheets and matelasses;
100% wool blankets from MacAusland's Woolen Mills;
Brahms Mount cotton and cotton/linen woven blankets;
Pine Cone Hill down comforters and LL Bean down blankets;
Real maple syrup from Crow Valley Farm, Hopkinton, NH;
Kate's Homemade butter (from Maine);
Our very own eggs, (our hens are free range unless there is snow and fed organic grain);
Organic produce, and sometimes baked goods, from Concord Food Co-op, Dimond Hill Farm and Gould Hill Farm;
Goat's Milk Soap from NH's Kearsarge Mountain Soaps;
Nespresso coffee maker and milk steamer;
Dash & Albert rugs;
Bulk Shampoo and Conditioner in dispensers (so we do not pollute the environment with all those tiny plastic bottles!).