Wild Honey

Wild Honey is a small place and it knows it. It is a sage-green farmhouse with a stone base, a metal roof and a porch that wraps around two sides, sitting alone in a gravel clearing with pine woods on every side outside Broken Bow. There is one bedroom, a bunk nook, a bath and a half, and room for six: the king bed takes two and the bunks take four.

The kitchen has a sage-green island with a white top and stools, white cabinets, and a stainless refrigerator and range. Framed bee prints hang on the wall near the sink. The living area sits under a vaulted pine ceiling, with a fireplace faced in rounded cream-colored stone and topped by a TV, a brown leather sofa, two striped armchairs with yellow pillows and a big ceiling fan. French doors lead out to the porch.

The bedroom has a king bed with storage drawers underneath, a sage accent wall, a TV, a reading chair and a barn door. A bedside lamp sits on each side of the bed. The bathroom has a double vanity, a freestanding tub and a big glass shower with a rain head, all under the same pine ceiling. The bunk nook is a built-in with rungs up the side, tucked behind a pocket door next to the half bath.

The covered back porch has a pine ceiling, runs most of the length of the house and is the best part of the place. The hot tub sits at one end, a ping-pong table fills the middle, and an outdoor gas fireplace with a TV over it sits at the other, with a sectional and a dining table close by. Out front there are two rocking chairs by the double wood doors, which have glass panes and a lantern on each side. In the gravel yard, black Adirondack chairs circle a stone fire pit.

Here is how six people fit. The couple with the king bed gets the quiet end of the house, with the big shower and the tub. The bunk nook takes four, so kids or friends get a place of their own without anybody sleeping on the couch. The washer and dryer are in the hall, so a longer stay does not mean packing a second suitcase.