A contemporary farmhouse residence in Westport, Connecticut, melds the brand new and previous.
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A Westport residence situated between the seashore and downtown was reimagined by a design and construct staff. They reworked the turn-of-the-last-century Dutch Colonial into a contemporary farmhouse with luxurious updates whereas retaining the unique attraction.
The staff of designer Bob Costanza, architect Doug Cutler and builder Oscar Leal of Beachwalk Properties labored collectively to maintain the unique basis and curved roofline, and added fashionable wings to the footprint, increasing the house to five,400 sq. ft.
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An outsized porch wraps round the primary stage, with a lobby that results in a big nice room with a fuel hearth and 20-foot cathedral ceilings accented by dramatic pendant lights. Flooring-to-ceiling home windows on two sides of the room herald loads of lighting and a wall of sliding doorways result in the yard.
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The kitchen options cabinetry from UK-based Wren Kitchens and a 10-foot grey island topped with marbled white quartz counter tops, together with Wolf and Sub-Zero home equipment and loads of seating house.
French doorways off the eating room open to a mahogany-lined deck.
The eating room, which may additionally function a comfy household room, has French doorways that confide in the mahogany deck that sits off of every first-floor house.
Cabinetry from UK-based Wren Kitchens and a 10-foot grey island topped with marbled white quartz … [+]
Additionally on the primary flooring is an workplace, a half toilet and a full toilet with entry to the yard, with room and plans for a pool.
Glass sliding doorways convey mild into the kitchen and breakfast space.
The second flooring has 5 bedrooms, together with a main suite with a vaulted ceiling, two walk-in closets and enormous western-facing home windows. The first toilet has a soaking tub and a glass-walled bathe. Two upstairs bedrooms sit underneath the house’s unique roofline. Other than the first suite, two of the bedrooms have hooked up bogs and walk-in closets. The 2 remaining bedrooms share a corridor toilet and there’s a laundry room on this flooring.
The first suite incorporates a vaulted ceiling, two walk-in closets and enormous western-facing home windows.
The house is outfitted with customized white oak flooring and options 4 zones for heating and cooling. There may be room for 2 vehicles within the outsized storage with glass doorways with entry to a mudroom with benches and storage.
The first toilet has a soaking tub and a glass-walled bathe.
The house is ready again on the 1.28-acre property, which is bordered by stone partitions and a working stream. It is roughly 2 miles to Compo Seashore, the city’s seashore on the Lengthy Island Sound, and to the Westport railroad station for entry to New York Metropolis by way of Metro-North. It is also near the primary enterprise district, with purchasing, eating, the Broadway-caliber Westport Playhouse and a drive-in movie show, and to eating places within the waterfront Saugatuck space.
The house sits on a 1.28-acre property that’s bordered by stone partitions.
“To be this near the seashore and on this a lot property is uncommon,” mentioned itemizing agent Julie Vanderblue of The Vanderblue Staff on the Higgins Group Personal Brokerage.
Vanderblue notes that as a result of the builders maintained the unique basis, the taxes stay decrease than a totally new construct.
Heat clouds at sundown are mirrored within the standing water at Compo Seashore.
The house is in the marketplace for $3.295 million.
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