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Wyndbourne Bed & Breakfast
If you close your eyes on the Galway corner where Ralph and Nancy Caparulo’s home, Wyndbourne, sits, you’ll hear just what the Scottish settlers who likely built the homestead heard — birdsong and the breeze. And when you open your eyes, the view is probably much as it was back then as well: a fusion of forest and farmland, the Helderbergs and Green Mountains in the distance. Posted on May 11, 2008.
Nancy and Ralph Caparulo have spent the past 12 years rehabbing their 1790s farmhouse in Galway. It goes by the name Wyndbourne.
The back yard of Nancy and Ralph Caparulo’s Wyndbourne includes a a barn that once served as a chicken house.
Wyndbourne’s back yard has several tranquil spots for sitting and enjoying the passage of time.
The Caparulos and their guests can enjoy a peaceful read in this small library on the first floor.
Ralph Caparulo discovered a boarded-up recess in one wall of the dining room, which he believes once held formal shelves. He removed the wall covering the dead space and built new shelving and cabinets there.
The Caparulos took cues from Colonial Williamsburg when they chose colors for their home. Their vibrant palette includes sun-yellow, caramel, burgundy, rustic red and hunter green. “We know that Williamsburg, which is our earliest record of colors, used enormously bright colors, bright purples and bright lavender. So we figured since this house was from the same period, that past residents would have probably have had the same sensibilities about light, having to get up with the sun and go to bed with it,” says Nancy.
Colonial colors dominate this bedroom at Wyndbourne.
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October 11, 2008
