This beautiful two-story home has many features which combine practicality with luxury, for complete family enjoyment. The covered portico, which makes a sheltered passage between the garage and the front door, has an easy-to-maintain slate floor that continues on into the spacious foyer. A window on the portico and small windows on either side of the door make this foyer a particularly bright and cheery place in which to welcome guests and there’s a handy closet for their coats, too.
Stairs go up from the foyer to the second floor, where there are four large bedrooms. The master bedroom has four windows and cross-ventilation, a walk-in closet and a second closet with bi-fold doors plus a private bath with a vanity sink. Bedrooms 2 and 4 also have cross-ventilation and bi-fold door closets and bedroom 3 has two windows and two closets. The family bath includes a double vanity sink and a laundry chute. There is a large linen closet in the hall. On the first floor, to the right of the foyer, there is a room with two windows, closet and wood-panelled wall which could be used for a fifth bedroom, den or home office.
Note that the living room is in a private corner to the left of the foyer—an ideal location for a room designed for formal entertaining. It has triple windows at the front and plenty of wall space available for interesting furniture groupings. For more informal occasions there is a family room, complete with wood-panelled walls, fireplace and large windows. Located between the family room and kitchen are the basement stairs and service area —a laundry room with built-in ironing board, lavatory, mud closet and a door to the covered service porch with its built-in package receiver. In the kitchen itself there is ample work and storage space, a pantry closet, café doors to the foyer and a roomy dinette area with a charming bay window. The corner dining room is especially convenient for more formal meals. An alternate side entry is provided for the two-car garage.
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source: Best Homes, issue 47, 1968
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