The sign at the garden's edge reads ''Gillespie's Garden''. That is what 22 years in one family's hands does to a property. The love and detail in this home only comes along once in a lifetime!
Three bedrooms, three baths, 2,982 square feet on .44 acres. Built in 1991 and updated throughout. There is no honey-do list here.
.The entry sits under a timber-framed portico of stacked stone. The door, both sidelights, and the arched transom are leaded art glass in a matched iris design. Inside, a split-face stone wall rises to the cathedral ceiling and frames the openings to the kitchen and dining room. Wide-plank hand-scraped engineered hardwood runs throughout the main level.
The 18x19 living room has a cathedral ceiling, a brick fireplace with a raised hearth and remote start, and a pair of barn doors that open to the den area.
The 14x18 den has a cathedral ceiling in weathered plank, 2 skylights, an arched palladian window, heated porcelain floors, and a wall of windows to overlook the garden. The 14x19 3-season porch is finished in stained tongue-and-groove with shiplap walls, a herringbone brick floor, French doors to the patio, and permanent café lighting.
The kitchen has granite on every surface. It is equipped with a gas double-oven range, black stainless appliances, glazed cream cabinetry with glass-front uppers, a travertine backsplash with glass mosaic inlay, and under-cabinet lighting on every run. A bay window breakfast area adjoins the kitchen under an octagonal tray ceiling. Opposite the breakfast nook, the formal dining room seats ten to twelve under a medallioned chandelier.
The primary suite has a vaulted plank ceiling, a shiplap wall built around a linear fireplace with lit shelving on both sides, and an exterior door to the gardens. Its bath has heated floors, a freestanding soaking tub, a second fireplace set into sculpted tile, a frameless glass shower with a rainfall head and marble bench, double quartz vanities with a seated makeup area, a h
