A contemporary farmhouse house in Westport, Connecticut, melds the brand new and outdated.
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A Westport house positioned between the seashore and downtown was reimagined by a design and construct group. They reworked the turn-of-the-last-century Dutch Colonial into a contemporary farmhouse with luxurious updates whereas retaining the unique allure.
The group 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. toes.
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An outsized porch wraps round the primary degree, with a lobby that results in a big nice room with a gasoline hearth and 20-foot cathedral ceilings accented by dramatic pendant lights. Ground-to-ceiling home windows on two sides of the room usher in 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 area.
French doorways off the eating room open to a mahogany-lined deck.
The eating room, which might additionally function a comfortable household room, has French doorways that speak in confidence to the mahogany deck that sits off of every first-floor area.
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 deliver 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 authentic roofline. Other than the first suite, two of the bedrooms have connected 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 includes 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 automobiles 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 operating stream. It is roughly 2 miles to Compo Seaside, the city’s seashore on the Lengthy Island Sound, and to the Westport railroad station for entry to New York Metropolis through Metro-North. It is also near the primary enterprise district, with procuring, 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,” stated itemizing agent Julie Vanderblue of The Vanderblue Group on the Higgins Group Non-public Brokerage.
Vanderblue notes that as a result of the builders maintained the unique basis, the taxes stay decrease than a very new construct.
Heat clouds at sundown are mirrored within the standing water at Compo Seaside.
The house is available on the market for $3.295 million.
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