Beautiful one-of-a-kind property with mostly newer updates, improvements, and additions less than 23 years old located in North Arlington. Custom built and renovated in a non cookie cutter fashion by an Owner/Class A contractor dedicated to saving much better built(and “greenly” sized) older homes. For those who appreciated the uniqueness of main level tiles personally brought back from Mexico, a front porch and balcony built wide enough to actually be used a lot, gardens that the only two owners have continuously worked on w/o looking like a professional’s calculated landscaping.
This almost total 16,000 sq ft very private property can be purchased together or separate from the back buildable adjacent lot. It is on a very quiet most sought after block in Ashton Heights-Clarendon close in to DC yet only 3 blocks from the Virginia Square Metro and a few blocks more to the wonderfully developed Clarendon Corridor w/ countless dining and nightlife options. This unique home includes a huge great room for entertaining (See the Tour) and an oversized and high ceiling in the Master Bedroom with a large walk in shower and wonderful balcony. Other custom touches include a sunken antique main bathroom with claw foot tub and a large windowed separate breakfast nook overlooking the main gardens. There is a spacious office w/built in wrap around deck space which could be converted to a main level bedroom with attached bathroom. The large living room with great drafting fire place also has wrap around built in bookcases on 2 walls. Then there is the recently finished high ceiling “custom” basement apartment that has been approved as an Accessory Dwelling- and therefore “rentable” or perfect for that older family member or au pair! It has many special touches including 2 entrance arches matching the rest of the home, it’s own wall of built-ins for books and an entertainment center, and 2 separate exterior private entrances! Outside is a covered brick back porch and beautiful custom large wood front porch. Original wood floors and those “dog pawed” Mexican tiles throughout most of home. Large open kitchen as part of the great room has 2 year old stainless appliances.
This property is also adorned with a gorgeous spring and fall garden that keeps exploding! One planted over the last 70 years where the original owner planted some 10,000 bulbs and there are now over 100 azaleas! A front walk made up of the original brick walkways discovered during plantings buried 5 inches down. A great recently “built to last”(deep footers) brick driveway.
A combination of newer and older…is more beautiful!
For those interested in the whole property there are four separate buildings on the unusually large acreage. A renovated large chalet style guest house or studio with small full bath and kitchen facilities. A quaint sunken “outdoorsman” cottage. A backyard garage with attached storage room could easily be expanded or replaced for a new garage. A 1/2 walled brick outdoor shop replaced the greenhouse and can be made into a screened porch that no dog could run through! Finally, there is a high fenced in private back yard that leaves plenty of room for a pool and/or tennis court - or just plenty of room for any type of outdoor family(or dog) fun. For taking part in the kind of old-fashioned house to land ratio that this town’s planners originally planned for.
We, as the second owners, did almost all we wanted with this property. But…whether your interest is the whole property, the existing house, of a new house, there is still plenty of room left for it’s third owner or owners to make it their own.
So…if you value the uniquely custom over faux old - we’ve got your place. If your budget calls for something a little less expensive than the whole property – most of what has been mentioned above…will still be there for you. Still want new and/or your perfectly matched personalized dream house? You can choose to buy our lot separately too or even have us build it as you wish – since we are an accomplished Broker and Class A Contractor.
You owe it to yourself to come see all the possibilities!
