Home of the Week: In Holbrook bungalow, anything and everything – The Boston Globe

12 months constructed 1946

Sq. ft 850

Bedrooms 2

Baths 1 full

Sewer/water Public

Taxes $4,210 (2022)

Individuals like to call houses, and this home on a Holbrook aspect avenue close to the Braintree line could possibly be referred to as “Simply Proper.” The property is properly south of an acre (0.17), nevertheless it packs fairly a bit onto the lot with out trying crowded. Along with the home, there’s a sizzling tub, backyard, pergola, shed, two patios, a fish pond, stretches of back and front garden, a bathe, and hardscape ribboning to the entrance door.

And the home itself packs loads into its 1,150 sq. ft (counting the partially completed basement right here), similar to a major bed room that accommodates a king-sized mattress and a walk-in closet.

However let’s begin on the sidewalk. The 2-car driveway is to the left of this up to date residence, the place walnut-stained shutters flank the 2 front-facing home windows, providing a lovely distinction to the inexperienced vinyl siding, tan trim, and black window bins. Fairly evergreen landscaping in a spring inexperienced enhances each entrance corners of the house and presents one other texture simple on the eyes.

A walkway of crushed marble and stone slabs curves to the entrance door. Inside, one is met with an L-shaped open flooring plan combining the residing space, kitchen, and eating area, in that order.

The 157-square-foot residing space incorporates a front-facing window, a pair of home windows just under the ceiling on the proper, recessed lighting, a central mild fixture with a glass drum shade, tall baseboards, and board-and-batten wainscoting. Embedded right into a wall that juts out on the proper aspect and boasts a quoin nook is an electrical hearth with a stained walnut mantel and a pretend marble encompass, a consolation characteristic sudden in a home of this measurement.

The flooring on this stage is a mixture of oak and vinyl plank with the looks of hickory.

To the left of the residing space is the doorway to the first bed room, which has the second entrance window. The 136-square-foot area additionally presents a triplex of double-hung home windows, a ceiling fan, board-and-batten wainscoting on a characteristic wall, and a walk-in closet.

Again in the principle residing areas and towards the rear of the house, a door with smoky glass opens right into a full tub that has a single self-importance with Shaker-style doorways and a quartz countertop, cabinetry over the bathroom, two storage nooks, grey vinyl plank flooring, a white shiplap ceiling, and a bathe/tub mixture with black fixtures and a white subway tile encompass.

A couple of steps past the bathtub is the entry to the visitor bed room, which is 100 sq. ft and arrange as an workplace with a desk and a sofa.

Subsequent up is the kitchen (145 sq. ft), which is a mixture of types and colours that works. On one aspect of the area, the smooth-front cupboards are a wealthy blue, and the counters are thick slabs of butcher block, as is the open shelving. The backsplash is ceramic tile, and there’s a pot filler immediately above the gasoline vary. All the home equipment are stainless-steel.

On the opposite aspect of the room, the Shaker-style cupboards are white, the counter tops are an identical manufactured materials, there’s a window over the sink, and the backsplash is a ceramic hexagon mosaic tile. The counter caps off with a peninsula that has seating for 2.

The kitchen ends in a slider to a paver patio earlier than the ground plan takes a pointy left into the eating area. The latter is so sunny that it has a “residing wall” of stained walnut slats containing an herb backyard.

The partially completed basement consists of the laundry connection and an workplace/exercise area.

The sliders within the kitchen open to a yard the place skilled panorama design takes the helm and delivers an leisure spot during which no area is wasted. The slider opens onto a patio and to the left, and behind a cedar fence, is a round sizzling tub. A pathway with slabs of slate on crushed stone results in the rear backyard, a fireplace pit, and a fish pond with a waterfall. There may be an outside bathe, too.

The house has baseboard warmth and sizzling water fueled by gasoline.

Scott Webster of WRight Property in Boston is the itemizing agent. As of press time, a proposal had been accepted on the property.

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