Inside a Smokehouse Turned Family Home

Two modern wings enclose a turn-of-the-century smokehouse.

The smokehouse living room.

One of the farm’s millstones, built into the floor.

A guest bedroom.

The master bedroom.

Hats hung on spinning pickers from an old cotton harvester.

A trunk that once held Hal’s great aunt’s clothes when she would travel by train to Raldolph-Macon College.

An open-air dining room allows for al fresco meals with a view.

A view of the family’s land from outside the open-air pavilion.

A reclaimed tabled by Charleston woodworker Capers Cauthen in the open-air pavilion.

The smokehouse’s original diagonally slatted door remains (as does the rusted basketball hoop).

A view of the smokehouse and new pavilion.

“When you’re sitting out here, and the sun’s setting, and it gets quiet and you can hear the frogs, it’s such a peaceful feeling. You get a deeper apprecation for it all.”— Hal Turner