This wonderful executive style home is a real beauty. A wonderfully renovated and updated Estate Home with mature landscaping. A great family home in one of Calgary's best Riverside Golfing communities. The house is just a ½ block from the entrance to Fish Creek Park and the River Pathways. With its extensive bike paths in a wilderness setting this park is a real treat. In the other direction, it is only 1/2 block to the Golf course.
The front yard is nicely landscaped with mature trees. The house has a large double garage and front driveway.
There is a small patio beside the front door large enough area for you to comfortably enjoy your morning coffee while basking in the early morning sun.
The back yard lawn is a comfortable size, large enough to enjoy but not too much yard work. It has a large, new (2009), deck for entertaining or just sitting and relaxing.
This is a spacious home, with 2262 square feet above grade. If you count the beautifully finished basement development it has nearly 3400 square feet of living space.
When you enter the house, just past the impressive open foyer, you will see on your left the powder room, laundry room and garage access. The formal living room is on your right, and a home office/den is just down the hall.
At the top of the stairs there is a central hallway big enough for a quiet reading nook.
This is where you find the master bedroom, with ensuite, the family bath, and 3 other bedrooms. Including the Master suite, there are 4 good sized bedrooms upstairs. The master is large enough for a king size bed and still have a sitting area as well. Be sure to check out the attractive detailing on the ceiling. It has a walk-in closet and a beautiful ensuite. Both the ensuite and the family bath have heated tile floors. The ensuite has a jetted tub and a separate shower. The counter includes a vanity where the woman of the house can sit comfortably to do her make-up.
The four upstairs bedrooms, the hallway and staircase have a new carpet your feet can sink into. The rest of the house, where you are most active has the easy to maintain yet still lovely to look at, hardwood and tile. The formal living room has tiled floors, the rest of the main floor is hardwood.
The formal dining area is on the far side of the living room conveniently near the kitchen.
You may arrive at the kitchen either from the Living/dining room or by going down the hall past the home office and into the kitchen. The kitchen, as are most of the rooms in this home, is a large space. Granite counters hi-light the kitchen with help from the new light fixtures; stainless steel appliances including a large fridge with an ice and water dispenser. To top it off it has a walk in pantry. There is also a kitchen desk. The desk also has granite just so everything matches.
The nook can accommodate a large family sized table. From the nook, you have a view of your back yard and deck. This home has a large deck overlooking mature landscaping, and storage shed for the outside toys. You will enjoy having the deck just off the kitchen nook. Cook your steaks on your Barbeque and eat on the deck, or if the breeze is a little too brisk then take just a couple of steps to your kitchen table.
Just on the other side of the nook is a large family room with fireplace. You can work in the kitchen and still talk to your guests in the family room.
Do you sometimes need to work at home? There is an office/den on the main floor with a large window so you can keep an eye on the kids while you work, but still have your own quiet, private space.
The main floor laundry room (with front loading washer/dryer set on pedestals) is handy. You no longer need to run up and down stairs to do laundry, slip in a load while supper is simmering.
An attractive windowed door leads you to the lower floor. The basement has been professionally done quite spectacularly with room for the pool table (included), a media area, a bath room (with shower), and has a comfortable large room with a good sized closet and you will even find a wine/beer making room. If you don’t make wine this space, with its counters and sink would be a nice craft/hobby room.
When you enter the basement, the stairs open onto a small entrance or conversation nook. You can go to the left, towards a TV/Media then a short hallway leading to and past the winemaking room and the full bath ending at the pool table room. or go to your right past the utility room, The large 5th bedroom and on into the pool table room. Every effort was made to make this space as comfortable as the living space upstairs. When you see it, please look up, even the ceiling has had that extra touch.
It has air conditioning, the air conditioner was replaced the summer of 2009 so expect it to work well. And for those who like vacuFlo it is installed here.
What more can I tell you? The layout is very well done. You have to see this one to really appreciate its comfortable spaciousness.
