http://www.8Wedges.comThe latest properties on the market in . Connecticut.http://www.1126Oldfield.comReal EstateAgencyLogic.comPartially renovated, bright, spacious Cape in desirable Sasco Hill neighborhood. Near train and I-95. Walk to the beach. Private, huge fenced yard. Park-like setting, with manicured plantings. Elegant double-entry sets the tone for this well-maintained, loved home. Formal staircase in entry hall. Large Living Room. Beautiful hardwood floors throughout. The formal Dining Room is perfect for holiday and family gatherings. Great eat-in Kitchen with lots of counter, cabinet and pantry space. Casual and comfortable Sun Room, off kitchen, and overlooking back yard. All three bedrooms are sizeable and have ample closet space, including built-ins. Finely finished renovated bathrooms, with wainscoting. Three bedrooms and two full baths. Finished Basement adds almost 500 SF of extra living space and storage. Wed, 23 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.115SteepHill.comReal EstateAgencyLogic.comThis well-priced custom Colonial near center of town, schools and Merritt features great living spaces, including formal Living and Dining rooms suitable for elegant entertaining as well as large and small social gatherings. The Den's rustic fireplace and rare Southern Pine, wide plank floors and perfect for more casual, informal daily living. The large and sunny Family Room adjacent the Kitchen offers abundant lifestyle options. With deck access for al-fresco dining and barbecuing, it boasts plentiful storage, seating and counter space for cooking, dining or chatting. The sizeable Laundry Room is convenient and bright. With large closet and sitting area, and hardwood floors (beneath carpet), the Master Bedroom offers suite-like comfort. His and Hers baths lend themselves to various decorating styles and customizations, as do all the baths throughout the house. The partially finished walk-out basement is a great bonus space, while leaving plenty of room for storage or finishing possibilities. Finally, the property includes a good-sized flat and level back yard.Mon, 05 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.11Wakenor.comReal EstateAgencyLogic.comLocated in the desirable Hunt Club area, with a partially finished basement. Great informal and formal living spaces, including a large Family Room. And an intimate formal Living room area which is versatile and flexible, alongside a Dining room area (with built-in China cabinet) and French doors. The Kitchen has tons of cabinet space, and a door to the backyard for summer BBQs. The spacious Master Bedroom suite has room for a sitting area of dressing table. All the baths are in great shape. They're good sized, clean, and bright. Plus, they're neutral in style, to go with any decorating tastes and colors. The finished basement features an extra bedroom with a full bath. An office space with a large picture window for outside, natural light. As well as a play or recreational area, and lots of storage and closet space. A third-entrance mudroom area opens conveniently to the backyard. Make memories dining al-fresco on the delightful patio overlooking the large, level, fenced play yard. It's an amazing property, in a great and convenient location.Mon, 05 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.129Godfrey.comReal EstateAgencyLogic.comWith five bedrooms and five and a half baths, this brightly illuminated Colonial is only five minutes to the Schools and the Weston Center. With a great level play yard in the back of the house, this property, which borders protected open space, is a quick and easy commute to the Merritt Parkway, Westport or Metro North train. It's move-in ready. The level of finish, details and quality in this house is remarkable and unusual in this price range. Clearly not a McMansion, with an elegant entry hall and combined Kitchen Great Room opening to the back yard, this home has it all. The Great Room off the kitchen is great for warm fires and Sunday Night Football. The commercial Kitchen is equally well suited for preparing a simple snack or family dinner, or for a holiday meal enjoyed in the formal dining room. The living room derives a subtle elegance from the marble fireplace and decorative columns. The bookshelves in Library make a great Study or Home Office. And, the screen porch or sunroom is a great place to relax. Wake up to bright sunrises in the spacious Master Bedroom suite with double wardrobe closets and a luxurious spa bath with steam shower. Workout daily in the privacy of your own personal Exercise Room. Enjoy extra space in the fully finished basement with play area and nanny suite. The computer nook or hobby area is great for homework or special projects. Added features include an automatic generator plus clean and economical Gas heat. And, all of this is located close to the Weston Field Club and Devil's Den (with over 1800 acres of natural open space).Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.8Wedges.comReal EstateAgencyLogic.comLocated within quick and easy commuting distance to New York City via Metro-North Train, I-95, or the Merritt Parkway, and set on the west branch of the Saugatuck River in picturesque, Weston, Connecticut, known for it’s top-ranked schools, and rural, old-fashion values and lifestyle, this property is part of a coveted, private, luxury cul-de-sac. Set on almost three acres of manicured park-like property, this unique residence is only four minutes to the Schools, three to the Weston Center and eight to the Merritt Parkway. From your own private dock, relax in Adirondack chairs and watch the wildlife, or go canoeing, kayaking, fishing, swimming or ice-skating. Designed and built by famed architect Michael Greenberg. INSIDE, graciousness marries grandeur, with over 6,000 square feet and six bedrooms including possible nanny and guest suites, plus a finished basement, and a floor plan that flows with an ease and subtlety epitomized by the seamless partnering and open flow of a magnificent Kitchen and adjoining Great Room. A chef’s dream of unrivaled design, the Kitchen ignites creativity in those with a love for fine cooking and memorable entertaining. The comfortable Great Room is clearly the heart of the home … with fireplace, hidden television, convenient doors to the backyard and sitting porch, and a full bar (with quick and easy access to refrigerated storage for over 100 bottles of wine). With hand-painted murals, the Dining Room is as perfectly suited for formal entertaining as it is for casual dinner parties. With ornate moldings and built-in, hand-crafted custom cabinetry throughout, this home is equally as well-suited for elegant entertaining as it is for casual and daily family living. A Library or “Home Office for Two” which opens to the terrace is oriented around picture windows with panoramic vistas of the grounds, pool and spa, gazebo and river. UPSTAIRS, the master bedroom suite features a private sitting balcony that is just perfect for viewing morning mists off the river or spectacular sunsets. (This suite can be configured with an additional reading lounge or double wardrobe rooms.) A separate wardrobe room, and a luxurious marble spa bath with spacious steam shower enclosed by frameless glass and relaxing soaking tub centered below an expansive picture window overlooking tranquilizing river views complete this abode of luxury and comfort. The LOWER LEVEL includes an authentic Home Theatre and possible wine cellar. Imagine yourself enjoying secluded waterfront living, the great schools and lifestyle of picturesque Weston, Connecticut and a quick and convenient commute…. Sun, 11 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.58wellshill.comReal EstateAgencyLogic.comImagine turning an old, antique barn into a modern house, while keeping all the charm of the original. A picturesque, converted barn in the country – it’s an American dream for many. This 150 year old Antique Barn was dismantled, moved and reconstructed as a shell around a modern home with all the amenities and comforts you would expect. Literally, a modernist house built within a barn. It includes the original siding, pine plank floors, and Chestnut posts and beams dissecting living spaces. It is truly a unique masterpiece by the famous Yann Weymouth who worked with I.M. Pei on the glass pyramid at the Louvre in Paris. Set on almost three acres, the property is within easy walking distance to over 1000 acres of protected open space (part of the Trout Brook Valley preserve and the Aspetuck Land Trust). Plus, it’s around the corner from Aspetuck Valley Country Club, a full service, private country club with an 18 hole championship golf course, 9 tennis and 3 paddle tennis courts, an Olympic-size swimming pool and diving tank, locker rooms, a formal dining room, grill room and bar, extensive outdoor terraces, golf shop and tennis shop with two teaching professionals, and bag storage facility.. And, the property is a quick and easy commute to Westport, Fairfield, the Metro-North Train or the Merritt Parkway. This “Barn House” is something to talk about. It’s been written about in multiple magazine publications, in multiple countries, in multiple languages (including mainstream publications like House & Garden and Ladies’ Home Journal and worldwide industry publications like Nikkei Architecture, Japan’s leading magazine for architects). Here’s what House & Garden magazine had to say in a seven page spread, “The barn is set on a steep, sloping pasture facing woods to the south. The architects took advantage of the vista by opening up that side of the barn to create a deck, self-contained within the existing wall line of the barn. The rooms of the house were also planned with attention to their orientation: The master bedroom has an eastern exposure, to catch the rays of the morning sun, and the dining room is on the west side of the barn, to take advantage of the sunset. The living room, a large, open two-story space, leads onto the deck and its southern exposure. “This house is almost a literal translation of the client’s request,” says architect Yann Weymouth, “a simple, modern design inserted into the old barn, which is still the rural ruin that we found it—picturesque and romantic.” To heighten the feeling of counterbalanced opposites, the architects left spaces between parts of the existing barn and the new insertions. In several places one can look up through apertures in the new ceiling—a circular one in the living room, an oblong one in the master bedrrom—and see into the rafters of the old barn, now transformed by an oversized skylight with panes that closely mimic the framing of the conventional barn roof. The rooms are filled with light, unlike the interiors of most converted barns, which tend to be rather dark and claustrophobic despite their open country settings.” Ladies’ Home Journal described the property this way, “The gabled onion barn which forms both the outer shell and the inner armature of Well Hill House formerly stood about eight miles away in a farm country that has long since turned suburban. Old siding, pine plank floors, and chestnut posts and beams were dismantled and numbered for reconstruction at the new site. For a picturesquely “ruinous” effect, window frames set with cracked and pitted glass were retained on the north façade. [Imagine a] hillside pasture sloping away to stone walls and woods. Visitors approaching the house from the top of the hill are apt to see shades of Andrew Wyeth’s paintings. Although a walk around this surprising building reveals that it is not at all the cliché of reconstituted Americana its quaintly weathered timbers would suggest. The client asked for “a comfortable modern house inside an old barn,” and famous architect Yann Weymouth took her literally at her word, installing a 20th-century white box—close kin to the flat-roofed studio houses of the ‘20s—within the skeleton of a 19th-centure frame structure. This piquant juxtaposition of old and new emerged from the architects’ decision to emphasize the patent artifice of a well-appointed barn. Even though the rough-hewn posts and beams penetrate the cool planar geometry of the house, the new living pavilion is clearly defined as a self-contained volume. At the downhill base of the building, the space between the outer shell and the inner block is treated as a latticed porte cochere. On the upper levels, partial removal of old wall boards on the south and west fronts created an airy verandah that opens the interior to views and daylight, gently dappled as it passes through knotholes, crevices between boards and exposed roof framing. Small-paned windows were retained on the east wall, the one façade where the perimeter of the house abuts the barn, and on the north, where the expanse of siding acts as a winter wind screen. Inside, a simple layout orients the two-story living room to the south for passive solar-gain, the master bedroom to the rising sun, and the kitchen and dining area toward the sunset. A large round skylight above the living room offers a barn swallow’s-eye view of rafters and nailers silhouetted against the clouds.” The property includes the main living structure (a modern home inside the shell of a barn), and an adjacent building which currently serves as a garage (below), and a home office (or an artist’s or musician’s studio), and an in-law, nanny or guest apartment. Be sure to see more photos, in the Photo Tour. Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT