Jenny's Folk Art Museum is a house from 1770, located in the historical district of Kinderhook Village, just a twenty minute drive north of Hudson. The house retains much character from a bygone era, with wide wooden floorboards, bumpy horsehair and plaster walls, and wavy glass window panes, and is crooked and "wabi sabi" as it can be. Jenny, an artist and avid collector herself, has filled the house with folk art, "outsider art", antique quilts, extraordinary art books, and her own creations. The space PLEASE MAKE SURE TO READ MY DESCRIPTION IN IT’S ENTIRETY TO AVOID ANY MISUNDERSTANDINGS! Despite the rustic charm of the place, Jenny's Folk Art Museum is well equipped with all the necessary modern amenities. Also, the post office, cafés, shops, galleries, restaurants, bank, library, farmer's market, barber shop, spa, and now even a wine store are all just a two or three minutes' walk away! In the master bedroom suite there is one queen-sized bed, a private bathroom, and a sweet little gas stove to keep things toasty. There is also a single bed available in "Gustav's Room", as well a double bed in the other upstairs bedroom. All of the beds are complete with goose down comforters, wool blankets, quilts, and organic linens, as well as merino wool mattress covers. (The towels, bath mats, etc. are also organic, whenever possible, since Jenny lived on an organic farm in Norway for 23 years, and is devoted to all things ecological. In addition there are wool slippers and bathrobes for guests.) The water in the showers is delightfully hot, and the water pressure is excellent. You will have the top two floors of the house to yourself, which includes three bedrooms, the living room, dining room, kitchen, two full bathrooms and one half bathroom, and various narrow, crooked staircases. (PLEASE NOTE: this house is in fact my home! There is a separate basement area where the host, sometimes her boyfriend from Brooklyn [or one of her adult children visiting from Norway], and her two kitties stay; the kitties NEVER go upstairs: however, guests with severe allergies should note that felines live in the basement and guests with dogs do occasionally come and go. Jenny may also be making art or writing her “memoir” in her studio in the shepherd’s hut to the rear of the property…. But she makes herself almost 100% invisible, if she is even there! However, she may occasionally have to water some outdoor plants or tend to some weeding in the garden…. You may hear an occasional meow from the basement or the outdoor kitty pen; and the kitties, who are teenagers, love to knock things over downstairs; but the tea cups and potted ferns have all been confiscated from their paws! However, they’ll happily flail books off the shelves….) Sometimes Jenny is in Brooklyn or Connecticut, where her 89 year old father lives, or in Norway, where her four children reside; but she is always accessible by e-mail or telephone, except, perhaps, at 3:00 a.m.!!! (However, if you would like access to the basement area and the laundry facilities, as well as be guaranteed of no crazy cat lady down below, I suggest you reserve the space on the “Jenny’s Folk Art Museum Extraordinaire” listing!) There is also a gas fireplace in the living room, and a kitchen overflowing with enough cookware to roast a Thanksgiving turkey and bake a few pies: perfect for any traveling chefs out there! The cabinets are not only stocked with organic coffee, tea, olive oil, apple cider vinegar, sea salt, pepper, herbs and spices (which guests may help themselves to), but also other organic foodstuffs; I only ask for a contribution to be placed in the donation jar in the dining room in exchange for the consumption of such. Also: there is a Berkey charcoal counter-top water filter and a reverse osmosis water filter jug in the lower cabinet to the right of the stove. (Because of Jenny's health concerns there is no microwave in the house, but instead a state-of-the-art toaster oven!) For a small fee guests may leave their laundry and I will be happy to wash, dry, and fold it for them, so long as I’m not in Norway or some other far-off land! (Such journeys are very unlikely, these days…. But once in a while I might take a short trip!) Guest access In the living room there is an Apple computer, DVD player, and a DVD collection hidden inside an antique blue-grey cupboard, as well as myriad board games and playing cards; guests may knit, read, sew, or watch their favorite shows and movies beside the fireplace. The garden patio behind the house is complete with iron lawn furniture and a grill, while in the front of the house is a tiny porch with a bench and a small metal table and chairs, where guests may sit with their morning coffee in the sunshine with a newspaper or one of the books from the shelves.... On the side of the house you’ll find a hammock to languish in, assuming that the weather is warm! Other things to note It’s very important that you read the instructions in the house manual for various appliances: but particularly for the gas fireplaces and stoves!!!