Keeping it simple again with just one textured solid and three elements from a new kit "Once Upon a Time" by HotFlashDesigns, now over at Scrapbird. The large photo is from the realtor's online sales brochure, and the smaller two are from my husband's archives.

Small text reads:
there lived an artist* who needed a studio in which to paint, and also a house for himself, his wife, and his four children in which to live. He found the perfect place for both--an unused building large enough for his family to live in, and with space for him to work. It was part of a large estate built during America’s “Guilded Age”. Originally it had housed six horses, the groom that cared for them, and the carriages they pulled. Five of the large horse box stalls became bedrooms and one served as a woodworking area where the artist could make frames for the paintings he created. A small apartment, where the hired groom once lived, was rented out. Later on, part of the empty hayloft became bedrooms. It was a magical place where the children could roller skate or ride their tricycles inside the house on the cement floors, and where they were free to play outside in the woods with no one around to bother them.
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*The artist was Joe Jones, and his youngest son, Jamie, and I had just celebrated the fortieth anniversary of our wedding--at a party held in this very house--when this was written.


Technical notes: I slightly altered the castle element, and I added a b-w-b 45 degree gradient overlay adjustment layer to the background for drama and depth. Title font is Blackadder