Custom Cabin Stay – Why My Whole Family Fell in Love! Full Tour!

Today we're touring this Airbnb right behind me, The Golden Rod. Unique layout and fixtures inside, and I brought my family. We were here for a couple nights. It was amazing. Let's see what this place is all about. We're here in Kentucky. We're not here that often, but whenever we are, it is beautiful. And we're right next to Natural Bridge State Park, so there's tons of hiking. And the property we're at is called Hooting Owl Homestead. There's four Airbnbs total here, and we're here at The Golden Rod, which is just beautiful. There's animals. There's a garden here. There's a lot to explore on this property, and I'm featuring two of their properties here. So next week, we're going to be showing their tiny house. You'll have to check that one out next week. It is so cool. But at The Golden Rod, we're here on top of the hill at their property, and it is very private among these trees. This is the front side, which is where we'll park and enter at. Beautiful cladding on the exterior. I just want to point that out. It is popular vertical cladding. I love the look of that. It's very simple and sleek. The black windows, and just how this sits among these trees in the sunlight, it is gorgeous. But if we take a look at the side view, we can see it's a lot larger than what it looks like on this front side, and there is a basement. So there's three levels to this Airbnb, and it is perfect for families. I brought my two kids here and my wife. We were here for two nights, and we had a lot of fun here. So whenever we walk in through this front door, we can begin this tour. And this front door is actually something I want to check out. It is a pivot door, so when you open it up, there's a pivot point at like the one-third mark of the door, and it kind of just swings open. I know these doors are very expensive and luxurious, and I always love seeing them, so I wanted to point that out. And the handle of this front door is leather-wrapped golden rod, which might be why this Airbnb is named that. So there's no latch or anything except the lock. The door can latch, though. I'm going on and on about this front door. It's really cool. Let's just walk inside and check out the golden rod. Walking inside the golden rod, we're on this main level. Beautiful fixtures and detailing all throughout here. The hosts built this themselves, him and his team. They built all the Airbnbs on the property themselves. The wife designed it, and they live on the property as well, kind of taking care of the homestead here, which I'll be showing you all around that later after this tour, so stick around. But on this main level, this is the kitchen, the dining space, and a couple other things. But this first area is kind of the open seating area in front of this kitchen, and the kitchen takes up the majority of this level, and it's beautiful custom wood cabinetry all around. Island here in the middle is massive with a beautiful countertop. I love the veining and marbling all throughout this countertop. Plenty of barstool seating all around for me and my family. We ate dinners and our lunches here every day, and it was great. On the other side, the microwave is hidden down here, and some storage. And back to the cabinetry, the refrigerator is here. This fridge has a couple surprises. Since this is a working family farm, they left some homegrown chicken eggs in here, grown by their own chickens, and they left us some sausage and some meats down in the freezer. We used their sausage and their eggs, and we made some burritos. They were truly very delicious burritos. I love seeing this type of stuff at Airbnbs that are left for the guests. The sink is here in the middle, in front of this window. Coffee supplies. They leave some coffee for us, some locally roasted coffee, which tasted amazing, truly did. Then we have the oven over here with this stone inlay back behind it. If you're wondering where the hood vent is, well, the oven has a built-in hood vent in it. You can see here in the middle, the smoke will go into there. So that means there's no hood vent. It kind of gives us more open space in this kitchen. Overall, I like the warm glow lighting they have in here. But there is a door off of this kitchen, and you can open all three of these, actually, for a massive opening for your deck space. But we'll walk out here and check out the deck space among the trees, and there's a lot to do. A net is my favorite part. I'll just jump right to it. Right here in the deck, and we're pretty high off the ground. Me and my kids got in the net. We liked it. We always like seeing them. They're fun. And that is a unique thing about this property. This netting rope is everywhere. It's incorporated in all the cabins. There's a couple areas in the woods that have them, we'll get there. They have a guy that lives in his van, and he travels all around the country doing this for people. It is really neat. Interesting job. There is outdoor seating here. There is a hot tub over here, as well. A grill out here. Large deck space, and we can walk down these steps that's off the deck space. And down at the bottom of our little section of the property, we have a fire pit area way down there, and we can see the Airbnb all the way up here when we're down there. So, we have a nice little property space, and we're the closest ones to the animals, which we'll be seeing later. Anyway, walking back up onto the deck space, we'll walk inside, and there's more on this main floor. There are two rooms off of this kitchen space. This one on the left is your first bedroom. Nice detailed bedroom in here. I love the wallpaper. I love the decor. I love the color scheme in here. The bed here in the middle, of course. And the drapes are blackout for your windows, and it just adds to the luxury feeling here. And then, the other door is the bathroom for this main floor. Walking in here, full bathroom with your vanity up against this wall. Nice gold sink and gold fixtures. And then, the shower next to this is catty-cornered here. Beautiful tiling, the waterfall showerhead above, and the shower has jets coming out of the walls for you. This is a luxurious feature we don't see too often. You see them in really high-end homes, and they were extremely nice just getting blasted with hot water all around my body in the shower. Very nice shower, if you ask me. And then, the toilet here in the corner, and this is a bidet toilet, so if you're a fan of those, they are here. Now, there is a door off of this bathroom, and this connects you to the bedroom. So, this bedroom has direct access to the bathroom, which is really handy. But overall, that is everything on this main floor, and you're probably already looking at the stairs over here. And you can see that same rope is used on the staircase, and we can go up or down. We'll go up first, up into the loft space. These steps are custom-made with these wood slabs, it's pretty neat. And then, we make it into the main bedroom, and this is the king bed up here in the loft. Lots of windows up here, so great natural lighting. The king bed sits right here in the middle, and this all faces your little seating area you have up here as well. Nice little reading nook on the right side. We have a TV that can swivel out to your bed or the reading nook, and this is where I slept. It was great, and it rained a lot whenever I was here, and you could hear the rain when you're sleeping. It was really nice. So, I like this bedroom, very cozy. And we can walk down the steps now and into the basement. Now, when we get down here, it is very spacious, and the hangout area. The host was telling me he was originally going to make this an outdoor deck space, but he converted it into a basement to add more space to the Airbnb, and I'm glad he did because this is where me and my family hung out a lot with our kids. There is another living space down here with the couch, the coffee table, the big screen TV. We watched a movie here one night. And then, continuing along, there is a bunk bed down here, just an extra bed for the kids, which is where my son slept. He loved it. The kids loved playing on the bunk bed. There's built-in drawers on the steps on the bunk bed, which is a neat feature. Another dining table down here, if you want a more formal dining option. And we have a couple other seats down here. There's a massage chair, which I enjoyed using, and my kids honestly liked playing on as well. A cool little feature. And just overall, a lot of space down here. And there is an attached bathroom. So, through this door, we can walk in the bathroom space. Another full bathroom. The tiling in here is beautiful. Bidet toilet on the right side, vanity here in front of us with a nice stone bowl, golden fixtures, and then a walk-in tiled shower. Tiling on the floor, it is seamless, so you can kind of just go right into the shower. I had to shower all my kids in here one night with all of us in here, and we fit great. There's also jets in this shower as well, so there's multiple angles of water coming out. It is nice. So overall, a really nice bathroom down here for the basement level. And then, there's another door, which is like a storage closet, but there is a washer and dryer in here if needed. So really, this Airbnb has a lot to offer, but there's more on the property to check out. When you drive onto the property, we pass their farm and their garden. They have a farm stand as well. If we go down to the farm stand, we can purchase some of their goods here. They have homemade ice cream. They have a lot of meat options. It's kind of like the main thing. So if you want some lamb, if you want some duck, a lot of meat options here to choose from. And of course, a bunch of other stuff you can see in this little farm stand. They have a garden here that you can walk through. Me and my family enjoyed walking through that. I believe they're growing strawberries here. They have an orchard planted. And then on the other side, we have all the animals we can check out. You can get some animal food right here from the vending machine and go to the animals and try to feed them. They have goats, they have sheep, they have a donkey, they have chickens. They have a lot of animals here that you can check out. We like going up to the fence and look at them. They were interested in us. I think they wanted the food we had, of course. And very, very fun for the kids to see. And I, of course, enjoyed watching it as well. And it's just walking distance from the Airbnb. But we're here at the Natural Bridge State Park. We tried to do a hike. We got rained out, though, which was really upsetting. Halfway through the hike, it literally poured down rain, monsoon style. So we had to run back, muddy. I mean, we were soaking wet, like we jumped in the pool. My camera was fully wet. I thought it might have been ruined, but we were good. So we didn't get to do that hike, but we did do another hike, which you will see in next week's video. So stay tuned for that one. Anyway, thank you for watching this one. If you want to stay here, the booking link is down in the description below. The hosts are incredibly nice. I could go on and on, but I'll see you next week's video.