8899 East Lake Road

Once known as EaglesMere, a listing that spans across Moorheadville Road on Roue 5 features two homes, vineyard, three gas wells and 27 acres. It’s all nestled on lovely Twelve Mile Creek in Harborcreek, and it is all for sale. Check out the video here. Read the story here — all in House to Home.

This property is steeped in history and the two homes couldn’t be more different. The white house, built in 1898, has old-fashioned charm while the former barn offers a rustic flavor. It is an incredible living space with awesome barn beams, huge rooms, cathedral ceilings and so much more.

House to Home also includes interesting features on walls you can encourage your kids to write on. It’s new paint, and it’s awesome. Don’t miss our garden stories, and we have the architects’ and designers’ comments on the latest HGTV eco-house given away on the network. New owners will take possession in August.

Pam Parker is the editor of Lake Erie LifeStyle, Her Times and House to Home at the Erie Times-News in Erie, Pa.

A Huffington Post article quotes a blogger as suggesting that an HGTV episode of ”House Hunters” doesn’t live up to reality TV with house hunters touring homes that weren’t even for sale. Well it is all done for drama on a TV production schedule budget, and it is entertainment.

I like ”House Hunters,” but I’m not a fan of some of the makeover shows that want us to believe we can totally redo a room in hours for a few hundred dollars. It can most definitely be done, but I became a skeptic when one show redid an indoor/outdoor patio with paint, new furniture, a rug and beautiful hanging plants in stunning pots — five of them — all for a couple hundred bucks. Even if someone gave them the furniture and rug, they’d have blown the budget on those big, honking, matching plants. And what appeared to be designer pots and chains. Maybe they got a deal I never got. It makes good drama and the room looked awesome — but probably cost about double what they spent, and that’s still not a bad deal.

Pam Parker is the editor of Lake Erie LifeStyle, Her Times and House to Home at the Erie Times-News in Erie, Pa.