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If a grasp builder builds a house for himself, that makes it particular, doesn’t it? And so this one is.
“We construct each dwelling as if we’re going to transfer into it ourselves,” says Achristavest Advantageous Residence Builders, one of the vital sought-after builders of luxurious waterfront homes on the Jersey Shore.
Effectively, again in 1986, the corporate’s founder, chairman and CEO, Eustace Mita, not solely constructed this Springton Lake Colonial home on the market simply exterior Media, he did transfer into it himself.
And the home he constructed for himself is a good-looking Colonial with conventional fashion and particulars however a really fashionable sensibility. And it’s designed for elegant but straightforward dwelling and entertaining.
Mita, who has had a lifelong curiosity in actual property and building, was clearly warming up for his future with this home. (He based Achristavest in 2004.) Whereas it’s solidly constructed utilizing top-quality supplies, it appears and feels rather less substantial than an Achristavest home. Then once more, this home didn’t should be designed to outlast no matter Mom Nature may throw at it in an oceanside or bayfront setting; Springton Lake Reservoir’s climate is far more tranquil.
The home’s fashionable sensibility exhibits on the surface in its massing and fenestration. In distinction to the formal symmetry of the standard Colonial, this home stretches out throughout its not-quite-one-acre lot with a three-wing design that appears much more fashionable in again than it does in entrance.
The middle wing accommodates the home’s Wow! areas. In entrance, that house is a two-story-high lobby with a curving staircase.
The steps result in a bridge over the passageway to the sunken nice room. This room’s vaulted ceiling, full-height brick fire and gables with fanlight home windows ought to suitably impress your friends whenever you invite them over for a go to. These home windows additionally supply a terrific view of the woods and reservoir past this home’s yard.
To the suitable of the lobby is a extra conventional lounge. It too has a working fire with a marble encompass.
Observe how the wide-plank white oak flooring sparkle — this home has been very properly taken care of. A lot of what you see in these footage has been put in inside the final 5 years, together with the hardwood flooring, the Karastan carpets upstairs and downstairs, and the lavatory fittings in three of its 5 loos and its first-floor powder room.
A wainscoted research lies off one facet of the lounge. Its home windows look out on the semicircular driveway added to this property in 2020.
The formal eating room sits to the left of the lobby. Once more, it’s elegant but easy, with unfussy wainscoting.
The totally tricked-out kitchen is related to each the nice room and the eating room. It has a 10-foot-long granite-topped middle island, a Sub-Zero fridge and beverage fridge and a Wolf microwave, smooth-top cooktop, warming drawer and double oven. You’ll be able to see one of many two ovens and the warming drawer on this photograph; the opposite is positioned within the island, immediately reverse the cooktop. A piece desk is positioned subsequent to the door to the nice room.
Off the kitchen, a sunny breakfast room additionally has sliding doorways that result in the rear deck.
5 of the home’s seven bedrooms are on the second and third flooring of the kitchen/eating room wing. The first bed room suite, nonetheless, lies on the opposite facet of the bridge, over the lounge and research.
Its spacious bed room encompasses a fire and a big fanlight window overlooking the yard.
On the alternative facet from that window are two giant walk-in closets and a luxurious main tub.
That tub encompasses a soaking tub on one facet of its twin vanities and a marble bathe on the opposite.
There’s additionally a completed walkout basement rec room. It has new carpeting, knotty-pine wainscoting, a moist bar and one other fire. The seventh bed room, additionally on this ground, has an en-suite toilet that makes it splendid for an au pair or in-law suite.
French doorways that flank the hearth open onto a properly landscaped terrace and gravel path into the yard.
This Springton Lake Colonial home on the market is way sufficient away from the guts of Media to give you peace and quiet but shut sufficient so that you can get pleasure from its vigorous downtown and nice eating scene everytime you really feel prefer it.
It ought to be clear from this home that Mita knew his stuff even again then. He has since gone on to larger and higher tasks, however he and his successors have left you this very particular “builder’s particular” as a legacy so that you can get pleasure from.
THE FINE PRINT
BEDS: 7
BATHS: 5 full, 1 half
SQUARE FEET: 5,600
SALE PRICE: $1,875,000
2224 E. Deerfield Dr., Media, PA 19063 [Kathy Devine | BHHS Fox & Roach Realtors]