49 Yaun Rd, Livingston Manor, NY 12758

Hollyhock sits a long way back from a quiet country road on 10.13 acres of meadow, woods, and historic stone walls. The house is properly private and still only a few minutes from Livingston Manor's main street, which is the increasingly rare combination people drive up here to find. The interiors are where it gets interesting: someone has been making confident, pattern-loving, vintage-respecting decisions in every room, and the result is a house with actual personality.nnThe first floor flows in a loop you'll want to walk twice. The living room is bright and white with raised panel wainscoting, a cast-iron woodstove on a stone hearth, a salon-style cluster of art, and enough plants on the chair rail to make a casual nursery. It opens straight into the kitchen, which has been redone with new appliances, stone countertops, greige cabinets, and open shelving to show off your ceramics and a rainbow of Le Creuset. Off the kitchen, the dining room goes fully committed: floral wallpaper above buttery yellow wainscoting, a yellow tray ceiling with a stenciled border, dark plank floors, and the most precious pendant light you ever did see. A library waits wrapped in deep blue-green walls with floor-to-ceiling built-in bookshelves, a vinyl listening zone, and enough seating to ride out a long rainy weekend. A floral-papered powder room rounds out the main level.nnUpstairs is more restrained on purpose. The primary bedroom is calm and pale with framed botanical prints and an en suite f