Property Description
Welcome to this country contemporary custom designed and 'beefy' built home; solid walls, post tension slabs, picture journals to view. The circular drive gives easy access/departures plus added parking for guests. The double cypress doors, beveled glass transom, covered front porch and blue stone slate blend to begin your visit to this unique residence. The foyer's crystal & iron chandelier lights your entrance; go left to the living areas or right to the master suite, den, pool. Let's go left first and down the brick steps to the family room with large bank of windows, brick wall with fireplace and niche for your piano. Large moveable wall unit houses all audio/visual units, controllers, speakers and TV. Surround sound speakers in ceiling also feeds to master, kitchen, upstairs,back porch & pool areas. Ceilings here are 11.5'. Follow the music to the kitchen/dining areas-the "other" family room. Two granite islands for creating culinary feasts and enjoying all at the Grazing One! Fully equipped kitchen, appliance garage, drawers, drawers, drawers! Having a dinner party-move the dirties to the washroom dishwasher! oh and there is also a wrapping center and lots of cabinets & more drawers for storage. Oops, the "secret door" in the kitchen is for the wine cellar with its own split unit cooler Capacity is about 900 bottles if you never share with your friends! The wet bar is fully equipped also. Kitchen cabinets are reclaimed Cypress with a gray wash; cypress ceilings are new cypress blended with reclaimed cypress beams throughout the house. Black hardware accentuates the blend with SS Abbakka hood and sinks. The large walk in pantry in the hall has shelves almost to the ceiling, counters & a hanging linen rack. Guest room suite with huge closet finishes this side of the house's interior. Moving back past the kitchen in the hall is the formal powder room and small office before heading upstairs to the front suite with built in desk, wardrobe, TV, walk in closet. Jack & Jill bath to the 2nd suite; can be an office/exercise room as now or the 4th bedroom. Walk in closet here leads to the main floored attic. In the hall between these rooms is a large closet with shelves and houses the panels for security, electronics, control boxes. Attic access to upper level also.
Back downstairs to view master pass the front doors and left into the Suite. Dual closets, vanities, private commode, bidet, whirlpool tub & large shower. Built in wardrobe bank for convenience and master bedroom/seating with beautiful bayou views. French doors to the pool also. The salt play pool is 6.5 feet at the deepest with 3 long steps for lounging. Upper patio and lower patio areas by pool plus down the steps to the ground level BBQ patio. Follow the brick path to the back porch and relax with the music and fans. More Cypress ceilings here too. Crown molding, baseboards, doors were all custom milled cypress to keep the uniformity. Cherry wood was used in all rooms other than kitchen.The garage ceilings cypress, concrete floor epoxy coated for added ease of maintenance. Extra storage and electrical/mechanical panels in smaller garage with more shelves and whole house water softener. Across the driveway is the green house, wet sink and potters haven! Irrigation system controls, pet wired fence control box. House has French drains, garden pipes and culverts to divert water from upper to lower areas.
Beautiful bayou views (300 linear feet of bulk heading), live oak, Cypress, Red Maple, weeping Oak and full landscaping with azaleas, camellias, crape myrtles and numerous other Louisiana plants beckon for the start of a new family journey. PS The foyer windows and hall made for a STAGE for our 3 y/o granddaughter and our 2 y/o neighbor while they sang and danced to "Frozen" compliments of 'Alexa'. Lots of love, laughs and memories to cherish. Call today for your exclusive showing.