Delightful Country Home!

This charming bright vintage colonial combines the appeal and character of a casual country manor house with the best of today’s amenities.  The house is set on glorious level grounds with gardens, porches, patios and decks, and attractive rooms that open to all of them.  Mature trees provide shade for relaxing, brick walkways meander through gardens and lawn, and there is even a white picket fence!  Once inside you will be enchanted by the gracious-sized rooms and exceptional floorplan that provides great design and versatility for easy living and comfortable entertaining.  The entry foyer, with its wainscoting, crown molding, and rich hardwood floor, serves as the perfect introduction to the home’s abundant architectural detailing and its many charms.  There is a banquet-sized formal dining room with a fireplace, bay window, and detailed millwork that includes crown and base moldings and ceiling medallion.  The living room features a coffered ceiling, brick fireplace, built-ins and picture windows.   It’s just one step down to the solarium with its grand windows, graceful ceiling with ceiling fan and recessed lighting, and French door that takes you to one of the home’s delightful outdoor spaces … a lovely porch and walkways to gardens.  The solarium is so large and well designed there is plenty of space for casual dining off the kitchen.  The updated kitchen has a tile floor and backsplash, gas range and room-sized pantry too.   A very pretty full bathroom with skylight and glass tile trim is conveniently set in this area of the house … where it’s three-steps down to a guest bedroom plus home office with bay window and sliding glass door.  If you need to take a break while working at home, slide the door open and you can relax on the multi-tiered deck just outside the office!  The family room has a raised hearth stone fireplace, crown moldings and French doors to side patio / porte-cochere.  A French door opens to the music room, housing a grand piano, with slider out to the deck.  All the main level rooms were designed to capture light and provide views, and many also access the magnificent property.  Upstairs there are four bedrooms on the second floor and a two-room suite on the third.  The second floor houses the master bedroom with intricate crown molding, wainscoting, cooling ceiling fan, and hardwood under the rugs.  A walk-in closet and handsomely updated bathroom complete with jetted tub complete the master suite.  Each one of the three additional bedrooms on this floor has its own unique qualities … one is a double bedroom with vaulted ceiling, one has crown molding and ceiling medallion, one has beadboard trim.  All have hardwood either exposed or under rugs.  A pretty hall bathroom with Palladian-style window completes this level.  The third floor is very bright with a large skylit room and extra bedroom if needed.  Among the home’s favored features and amenities there are new windows and new furnace in 2007, a security system, three-car garage, cooling ceiling fans and custom zoned central air with extended warranty.  In fact, an extended homeowner warranty that covers all appliances and major items will take effect one year from buyers’ date-of-purchase.  Special spaces to explore inside and magnificent property outside create a unique and truly wonderful opportunity for that exceptional country home you have always yearned for, just minutes from everything but a special world of its own!