Leftovers Farmhouse
Round Top · Other US · Photo & Film, Events, Stays
A Round Top farmhouse rebuilt from salvage.
Leftovers Farmhouse is a house born of patience, memory, and the generous reuse of what was already on hand. When Leanne Ford and Grace Mitchell were offered a century-old farmhouse near Round Top, Texas, the structure seemed more scare-ready than sanctuary. Ford and Mitchell moved the house across town and, with the help of local builders, gave it a second life—reworking its bones while keeping its soul intact.
The house
- Location
- Round Top · Other US
Production
- Load-in
- Cube trucks pull up to the house · four steps up to the front porch · stairs to the loft inside
- Hours
- 12-hour days
Why Leftovers Farmhouse
The interiors reflect this ethos. Salvaged floors are soap-treated rather than concealed. Walls and ceilings wear a custom “peige” paint that sits between white and earth, softening surfaces without washing out texture. Vintage doors, reupholstered sofas, and leftover tiles find new purpose in every room.
In the heart of the home, a vaulted kitchen opens onto the Texas landscape through a glass back wall, letting light draw breath across plank and plaster. Furnishings and antiques aren’t styled into silence—they’re assembled like stories told around a table, each piece carrying its own history.
Bathrooms embrace the view as boldly as the farmhouse does its past. In one, the tub was lowered into the floorboards so that panoramic fields remain uninterrupted. Another room sets reclaimed shingles inside as wall material, grounding the interior in the land that surrounds it.
Leftovers Farmhouse is both design experiment and heartfelt refuge: a place where forgotten things are given reason again, and where guests find themselves in a house that feels like visiting an old friend. Intended as a short-term rental near the famed Round Top Antique Fair, it also stands as proof that restraint and reuse can coexist with warmth, personality, and quiet surprise.
Leftovers Farmhouse