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Porch (Chicago)

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Excerpts from House Huntress

Here’s a place where we could live together: an apartment in the city, up some concrete steps with a discolored wrought iron railing that’s more likely to impale someone than do any kind of saving and the palms of my hands have the scars to prove it. Yours do not. The building is brick-red, or rain-stained-concrete gray, and the door, though the ivory paint is peeling in places, has a brass knocker and an eye hole for testing whether it’s worth ever opening again once we’re inside. There are some tiny planter boxes you made with your brother – the oldest one who can do things like that, whose name I never remember – and maybe I said I’d grow vegetables but I forget all about that when I see flowers, so instead of half-dead tomatoes we’ve got half-dead snapdragons and African daisies that I am clumsily trying to save after weeks of mistreatment.

              There’s a kitchen just big enough to turn around in, everything that came in it already off-white or fake wood overlay, and the countertops are scattered with unorganized half-used glass jars of rosemary, thyme, basil, paprika, and old husks of garlic cloves that were rubbed clean and then forgotten. The cupboards rattle with too many coffee mugs, thrift-store finds that will never match one another and they rattle and clink against each other when you’re trying to select a particular one. The cutlery matches in that it doesn’t, so many knives and forks taken home from assorted twenty-four-hour diners to make up for the ones I keep losing and the ones you accidentally throw away with the leftovers. The fridge has at least two different kinds of non-dairy milk in it at all times, and no meat. It buzzes and groans.

              Over the half-wall of the kitchen counter we have cobbled together the furniture we retained from past lives. What was once second-hand is now third-fourth-fifth-hand; at least the stuff that I bring is. You bring the overstuffed powder blue couch I love and this is its first time being co-owned by anyone, or even this far away from the nearest dirt road. Nashville is a cool city the way Austin is a cool city: an oasis of metropolitan tolerance in a desert of fucking bigots. In time the couch will be stained with candle wax and wine and what’s left behind any time you push my skirt up to discover I’ve forgotten to do laundry and so I’ve run out of underwear again. There’s books of poetry by Dickinson and Lowell on a coffee table scratched from cups, bottles, keys, lighters. There’s two poorly done paintings on the wall above the couch, portraits of two girls: one yellow-haired and the other a brunette, dressed in some early twentieth-century pink or blue gowns complete with parasol and over-the-shoulder coquettishness. A palette of faded blues and yellows and greens, the girls have the hollow black eyes of distant dreams. We found them on vacation together and had to save them.

              The bedroom is small and the bed is smaller, dressed in lilac and crisp white. There’s a certain throw pillow in the center of other throw pillows that holds a secret, a zipper in the folds of its hemming to keep it. The nightstand beside my side of the bed I found next to the dumpster at my old place and it’s filled with bracelets, multicolored rings, knotted nests of necklaces, and weed in unlabeled bottles. The nightstand on your side of the bed has been in your family for three generations and I don’t know what’s in it. The bathroom smells like your perfume, like a pre-scented sample on a perfume ad insert that comes in any women’s fashion magazine. When I turn the shower on, old love-messages written on the mirror with your finger re-appear like magic.

…

Here is a place we could stay together: an antebellum house in the countryside, maybe close to your family. Close enough that you can walk a dirt path through the dry grass that’s tall as your hips. It’s a path lined with day-glo orange and gold poppies, and purple nettle flowers that sting to touch. You visit your father, your brothers, whenever you want. The middle brother who you’re so worried over all the time despite his being older than you, Angus, he comes over regularly to sit in our cool parlor decorated with see-through white linen curtains where he drinks bourbon and talks about Edna St. Vincent Millay and W. H. Auden and grumblingly refuses to show you or anyone else any of his own recent poetry.

The house is smaller than the one you were raised in, and bigger than any house I’ve ever called home or even been inside for very long. It’s an adjustment for both of us. Outside there are columns that sit beneath the second-story balcony. When we bought the place it was all whitewashed, but since then most of it has been painted a muted pink and I’ve planted ivy and bougainvillea that creeps up the columns in deep greens and explodes across the sides of the house in shades of magenta that refuse to die, despite me not knowing what I’m doing. Errant cats wander the property with dusty brown paws that leave prints across the white planks of the front porch and on the seat of a swing. Light streams in through windows half as tall as I am and onto end tables and decorative shelving to reveal intricate doilies and gold-rimmed porcelain candy bowls, ancient copies of books thick enough to kill a man with if used properly, and glass vases filled with bouquets of wild flowers we both pick for each other on any given weekend.

The ceilings are so high that I can hear you singing to yourself in the kitchen from the other side of the house; your smoky lounge-singer voice that you typically only show off for family Christmas carols now bounces off of support beams to reach me wherever I am. Our guitar in the corner stays tuned and clean and in the evenings I play and you sing, or the other way around, or we take turns. In the kitchen, brass pots and pans hang from above, over a restored-vintage stove, along with hanging bundles of drying herbs: rosemary, sage, basil, lavender. Storage containers of descending size with painted-on sunflowers contain flour, sugar, and rice separated by variety. The freezer is stuffed with mason jars equally stuffed with jam: blackberry, marionberry, raspberry, orange marmalade, strawberry, blueberry, fig. There is one hook for multiple aprons, there is a multitude of decorative dish towels which are separate and different from the actual dish towels and this is true even when used interchangeably like I do on accident (to your chagrin). Coffee grounds and cat hair and the plastic ties from long-gone loaves of sliced bread fall between the gaps in the counter and the stove.

The stairs will never stop creaking. The second floor has endless guest rooms for friends and family to stay in, the kind of family who will never be introduced to your own, the kind that will wake up early and make breakfast for us to say thanks, and then they say it again with their lips and their eyes and their embrace on the way out the door. Our bed is big, queen-sized, with a white iron frame that twists and turns like it grew that way from nature, and the sheets have tiny blue flowers on them the color of your eyes. We cover rings in the wood on the nightstand with squares of pale green linen. Batteries roll around back and forth against silicone inside the drawers, and we’re careful not to be too loud for the neighbors’ sakes, but that is half the fun. On weekends and days when I can’t get out of bed, you close the curtains to the sun, crawl under the covers with me, and we spend all day trying to come up with a good reason to get up.

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Here is a place where we could grow old together: somewhere forgotten by the sea, away from the dry heat of summer. A house that is wider than it is tall, with new paint and an old garden that we make new again. Everything I plant turns to green. There is sand stuck into the fibers of the welcome mat, and smooth stones that we have collected and arranged into spirals and borders for garden beds keep everything from touching that we do not want touching. The door has more glass than wood on the front, multi-colored and mosaic so when the sun shines through it makes patterns on the floor for our feet to dance in. There is a backyard with a fence so high no one can see into it, except for the sunflowers which stretch up and up and up and over.

Inside there are bare wooden floors that we cover here and there with rugs collected from our worldly travels, purchased from artisans with a smile and many thanks. The furniture we use is purchased in a similar fashion; it is made of sturdy pine and oak, built to last, and stain resistant, with covers and cushions the colors of the ocean outside. The bookshelves hold volumes of poetic verse written by Keats, the fragmented desires of Sappho, biographies on Frida Kahlo, and lamentations of Sylvia Plath. At night the sounds of the waves can be let in or shut out through the many windows, and when it rains the whole house sounds off with the plunking of drops on glass like the pickings of my guitar.

The bay window in the kitchen over the sink holds flowers waiting to be pressed or dried or just picked in haste and then forgotten: violets, little daisies, hydrangea, and lots and lots of lavender. The counter tops are wooden, like you could cut right on them, and there are knife marks to prove it here and there in collections. There’s a china-blue bowl of oranges with only two left. Bulbs of garlic hang in a basket by the sink. An errant smell of sage and sea salt sinks into all our food, and the flecks of soil on the tile near the backdoor can never fully be swept out for good. To drink we make lemonade of all kinds: blackberry, strawberry, raspberry, mint, or water infused with cucumber and lemon, or hot tea with names like Rasperry Zinger and Orange Spice, and Sleepytime for late nights. A glass jar of honey sits on the counter next to the stove and it is always oozing. There is a table for two tucked into the corner, with bare wooden chairs we picked up from antique sales. They don’t match, but it’s hard to tell.

In the bathroom the shower has walls of tall frosted glass and connects to a bath tub deep and wide, soap scum fitting into the corners of the walls and in the grout of the tile. The rim of the tub is littered with half-empty bottles: baby pink, sea-foam green, and pearly white. It is so good for washing the salt from your hair.

There is no guest bedroom. Our bed is four-poster, with lavish fabrics draped around the beams, all indigo and white and cornflower blue. There are so many pillows of similar colors that it takes a concentrated effort to remove them before bed each night and replace them again in the gray mornings that follow. And sometimes we don’t replace them, and sometimes we do. The drawers of the nightstand beside it are stocked and arranged in an arsenal of silicone sexuality that we never worry someone might stumble upon. We are as loud as we like.

In the winter when the wind howls, there’s a blackened fireplace that we bring back to life. It crackles and spits while we turn against one another under the covers. A hamper in one corner is overflowing at all times. There’s a dresser that is taller than it is wide, almost to the ceiling, filled with scarves and summer dresses and sweaters; and, in between the socks and stockings in one of the smaller drawers, a collection of love poetry I’d forgotten I’d written to you. Your vanity holds pearls and perfumes, necklaces on silver hooks like branches worked to resemble a dead tree, and the mirror is pristine and round the way all mirrors ought to be. Sometimes in the evenings before bed, you let me brush your hair in front of it even though you think it’s silly. You sit on that little white wooden bench in front, with me standing behind you so you watch me in the mirror working the brush through your beach-blown curls. You don’t ever have to tell me when I’m hurting you because I already know.

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English Country Style Home Tour

  Hello, my dear friends! How are you today? I hope you’re healthy and safe. We’re doing all we can to stay home with our children while keeping them busy, which is not always easy but like I always tell them… nothing makes me happier than having all of us together under the same roof. So let’s make this difficult moment a little easier by seeing the positive things in life. Hopefully, all of things will start to get better soon. We just need to be patient and strong! We will kick this virus out of our lives soon.

Now, talking about being positive, I am truly honored to be sharing this stunning home built by Castle Homes. This is a long house tour, but we’re finally having more time to do things we love these days, right? So, let’s take advantage of that.

Here are some interesting facts about this gorgeous home:

“This English Country style home features bank of Lutyens style front windows (inspired by English Architect Sir Edwin Lutyens); Stunning Vintage Millworks custom exterior dormers, custom millwork and casings; Elevator for a three floors; Hidden Pantry; tracery ceiling in the Study; clever sofa screen provides definition to Living Room sofa; Herndon & Merry wrought iron staircase railing; four defined garden areas designed by award-winning landscape architect; Builder room featuring behind the walls custom craftsmanship and so much more.”

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  English Country Style Home Tour

A brushed concrete driveway leads to the Contemporary English Country style home with espresso antique colored, handmade brick and CertainTeed “Independence” shingle roof in a Georgetown Gray.

Essential to the design style is the distinct window composition – inspired by English architect Sir Edwin Lutyens, one of the premier British architects of the 20th Century. The aluminum clad wood windows (Pella), have a putty glaze and Low-E, energy efficient. The dormer windows have James Hardie Artisan, lap siding, with mitered corners and were custom designed in collaboration with Vintage Millworks.

Home Details: Bedrooms: 5 Bathrooms: 5 full, 2 half Garage: 3

Style: Contemporary English Country Home

Approx. Sq. Ft.: 6,748

Paint Color

  The two-front gable windows are accented by copper with cedar corbels and above, charming dovecotes. Windows are painted Sherwin Williams “Iron Ore.”

Pathway & Brick

 Exterior Brick: Old Texas, Pharr, Texas/Union Station, Nashville, TN – supplier.

Lighting: Gas lantern on a half-yoke bracket by Legendary Lighting – Others: here, here & here.

Courtyard

The front courtyard privacy wall is capped with limestone and leads to the covered entry with an Indiana limestone surround.

Front Door

The front door, in American White Oak, was designed by Castle Homes in collaboration with Vintage Millwork. It’s a clear, glass, true divided light door.

Foyer

The foyer has 7-inch, character-grade White Oak floor with a reactive stain with a tinted oil sealer, created by Castle Homes In-House Design Team. (Castle Homes interior designer Joy Huber, created the interior design plan including finish selections throughout the home with Rozanne Jackson Interiors, The Iron Gate, providing all interior styling, furnishings and draperies.)

Lighting: Visual Comfort Utopia Round Flushmount.

Rug: Vintage – similar here, here & here.

Dining Room

  Entering the Dining Room, the interior bank of Lutyens style windows are framed with beautiful, custom draperies.

Paint Color:  Sherwin Williams “Zurich White” walls, ceiling and trim.

Draperies: here – similar.

Dining Table & Chairs

Center is a custom concrete table with pyramid base, chairs with silver frames and leather seat cushions.

Inspiring Dining Tables: Round: here, here, here & here – Rectangular: here, here, here, here, here & here.

Best Seller Dining Chairs: here, here, here, here, here & here.

Chandelier

A cream leather chandelier by Ngala Trading, brings an unique touch to this elegant dining room.

Other Unique Chandeliers: here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here & here.

Bar Cart

A classic bar cart adds elegance to this dining room.

Beautiful Bar Carts: here, here, here, here & here.

Butler’s Pantry

 The Butler’s Pantry has a wine refrigerator, stained White Oak cabinets with a liming wax on the base, honed Calacatta Gold counter and above painted cabinets with clear glass.

Hardware: Pulls & Knobs – similar.

Kitchen

The kitchen, with Sherwin Williams Zurich White walls, has a center oak island stained with a liming wax on the base, honed Calacatta Gold counter, stainless steel sink and above antique, brass pendants.

Kitchen Cabinetry

Paneled, cabinet front Subzero refrigerator/freezer (30 inch each on the right) has an adjacent hidden door leading to the walk-in pantry. The range wall cabinet and hood repeats the island.

Cabinets: G&P Custom Cabinetry, Nashville.

Kitchen Lighting

Kitchen Pendants: Visual Comfort – Other Popular Choices: here, here, here, here & here.

The large island stools are covered in a natural white cow hide – Other Affordable options: here, here, here, here, here & here.

Faucet: Kallista.

Kitchen Island Dimensions

Kitchen Island Size: 5’x10’

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Backsplash

The backsplash is a Walker Zanger honed Calacatta Gold, oversized mosaic. Wolf range has 6-burners, griddle and a double oven and above a scalloped, oak wood hood.

Hardwood: 7-inch, character-grade White Oak floor with a reactive stain with a tinted oil sealer, sealed with Magic Oil – similar here.

Breakfast Room

The Breakfast Room has a built-in banquette with high performance fabric, custom designed natural wood breakfast tables, and a scalloped shade lighting.

Banquettes: here – similar – (I often recommend it to my clients).

Lighting: here – similar.

Pantry

Offering plenty of storage space, the kitchen pantry features a combination of painted-grade white cabinets and Walnut cabinets.

Living Room

 Featuring Hemlock Fir beams, this Living Room feels welcoming and elegant at the same time. The light fixture is a White Oak chandelier by Noir.

Paint Color:  Sherwin Williams  “Zurich White” walls, ceiling & trim.

Ottoman: Verellen washed white oak ottoman covered in Designers Guild mica vinyl – Other Beautiful Ottoman Coffee Tables: here, here, here, here, here & here.

Rug: Antique Oushak rug – similar here, here, here & here – Other Great Rugs: here, here, here, here, here & here.

Ceiling: Hemlock Fir beam.

Sofa

The Living room’s Lee Industries sofa is covered in high performance fabric and framed by a paneled screen in buff velvet.

Fireplace

Honed, hand-carved Limestone mantel fireplace features Alterna FireBalls and above a stunning Charlotte Terrell landscape.

Beautiful Artwork Ideas: here, here, here, here & here.

Piano

Grand piano was provided by Steinway Piano Gallery.

For seamless entertaining, French doors lead to the covered porch.

Porch

The French, sliding doors by Pella lead to the screened-in porch with a White Oak wood floor, repeating the interior reactive stain with a tinted oil sealer.

The hearth and mantle are Indiana limestone and above is a spruce planking ceiling with a wood and brass chandelier.

The room, with a Dash & Albert hand-woven polyurethane, UV treated rug, has a beautiful mixture of Summer Classics teak furniture with a marine grade finish.

Console Table: here & here – similar.

Sofa: Summer Classics.

Furniture

The croquet Teak lounge chair reclines and has brass detailing.

Side Table: Summer Classics.

Ceiling

The Spruce plank ceiling features a wood and  brass chandelier.

Lighting is Currey & Co. – Others: here, here & here.

Patio Fireplace

The patio fireplace features Indiana Limestone hearth and mantel.

Powder Room

The powder room has a radial, white glass tile on the focal wall with a custom, solid White Oak vanity with Carrara marble slab in-set carved sink and polished nickel faucet.

Paint Color: Sherwin Williams SW 7671 “On the Rocks” walls and trim, SW “Iron Ore” ceiling (not shown).

Accent Tile: Traditions In Tile/Artistic Tile.

Mirror: Arteriors.

Faucet: Kallista.

Staircase

The main staircase features a black, wrought iron Herndon and Merry, custom railing and smooth, round balusters.

Art by Bennett Galleries and Jack Spencer Art.

Oak & Brass

Oak Treads: Character-grade White Oak floor with a reactive stain with a tinted oil sealer, sealed with Magic Oil

The stairwell is accented with 4 ft. tall, gilded sconces by Visual Comfort.

Sitting Room

Upstairs Sitting Room, features the upper view of the Lutyens bank of windows with a Herndon and Merry railing, a velvet chaise lounges, a champagne metallic hide, and an antique brass leaf chandelier.

Chandelier: Arteriors.

Paint Color

Paint color is Zurich White by Sherwin Williams.

Master Bedroom

Master bedroom has an oversized cove crown and a beaded chandelier. Paint color is Sherwin Williams Reserved White on walls, ceiling and trim.

Bed: Beautiful Eloquence bed with an antique white and gold leaf finish and upholstered in ivory velvet provided by The Iron Gate.

Chandelier: Aidan Gray – Other Classic Chandeliers: here, here, here & here.

Bedding: Bella Notte – Other Luxury Linens: here & here.

Chairs: Gianni velvet chairs provided by Lee Industries.

Master Bathroom

Paint repeated in the Master bath (Sherwin Williams SW 7056 Reserved White), with a Walker Zanger, antiqued white marble floor (similar here), raised panel painted vanity in “Sherwin Williams White Nuvalato” and marble counter with nickel silver faucets.

Center to the room is a white plaster chandelier and a Kohler, free-standing tub.

Chandelier: Visual Comfort, Large.

Faucets

Faucets: Kallista.

Tub

Tub is Stargaze by Kohler.

Tub Faucet

Tub Faucet: Kallista.

Shower

The shower is wrapped with white marble tile (similar here) and has a linear, Infinity drain and a floating marble shower seat with fixed head and hand-held spray by Kallista.

Study

The Study has a tracery ceiling (designed by Vintage Millworks) and crystal, tiered, globe chandelier with “Silverplate by Sherwin Williams” tinted walls and SW “Snowbound” ceiling and trim.

Coffee Table: Oly Pippa cocktail table.

Chandelier: Visual Comfort.

Rug: Loloi.

Teen Girl Bedroom

This Teen Girl bedroom features SW “Crushed Ice” walls and SW “Snowbound” ceiling/trim. The bed has a linen scalloped headboard and above is a seeded, glass chandelier.

Beautiful Beds: here, here, here & here.

Best Seller Nightstands: here, here, here, here & here.

Bathroom

The bathroom has porcelain tile floor with a linear veining and a painted vanity in Sherwin Williams Dovetail with Turkish Carrara countertop.

Floor Tile: Porcelain tile “linen style” floor – similar here.

Sconces: Visual Comfort.

Guest Bedroom

Paint Color: Sherwin Williams Drift of Mist.

Bench: Gabby Home.

Chandelier: Arteriors.

Teen Boy Bedroom

This Teen Boy features  Sherwin Williams Reserved White on walls and SW “Snowbound” ceiling and trim.

Flooring: Dream Weaver carpet.

Bathroom

The upstairs Powder Room features “Sherwin Williams Stamped Concrete” tinted walls and trim with SW “Reserved White” on ceiling. The vanity is stained, white oak with a Carrara marble counter (5 centimeter), glass, vessel sink and titanium finished faucets.

Mirror: here.

Family Center

The Family Center has built-in cabinets with planked front doors, marble-looking Quartz counters and includes a built-in desk and three lockers.

Paint color is SW Zurich White” walls, ceiling and trim.

Details

This smart space is wrapped with planked door cabinets, built-in desk and Aurea Quartz Paragon counters.

Laundry Room Cabinets

The elevated laundry machines are flanked by custom cabinetry.

Mudroom Lockers

This space also features a mudroom with a trio of lockers.

Basement

Lower level entertainment space includes a billiard’s area with a wet bar, workout room and bedroom suite. Step onto the t-box on Royal Lytham golf course with a clever Golf Simulator and play over a dozen courses around the world. Beautiful York & Friends fine art throughout.

Walls are SW “Zurich White”.

Bar

The wet bar features a Carrara marble counter (5 CM) with Walnut opening shelving and a chevron patterned, walnut backsplash and features a stainless steel, round scalloped sink and brushed nickel faucet.

Patio Doors

Pella patio doors lead to an expansive patio.

Lower Patio

Furniture: Summer Classics.

Ceiling

Plank wood ceiling was also added on the lower level patio.

Rug: Dash & Albert.

Outdoor Kitchen

Grilling area has a built-in Wolf grill and Soapstone counters.

Garage Doors

The garage doors are painted in Sherwin Williams Iron Ore.

Architectural Details

The classic garage lighting and the decorative brackets add so much charm to the exterior of this exquisite home.

  Many thanks to the builder for sharing the details above.

Builder: Castle Homes (Instagram – Facebook)

Designers: Castle Homes In-House Design Team (Joy Huber, lead designer) in partnership with Rozanne Jackson, The Iron Gate, interior styling, furnishings, draperies, with interior decorator Ginny Garrett and interior architect Katy Austin Architect: Kevin Coffey, C. Kevin Coffey Dwellings & Design Landscape Architect: Gavin Duke, Page | Duke Landscape Architects.

Photography: Reed Brown Photography.

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$600,000 Homes in Ohio, Vermont and Virginia

Cincinnati | $599,000

A 1908 Greek and Renaissance Revival house with seven bedrooms, two full bathrooms and three half bathrooms, on a 0.72-acre lot

Designed for Frank Herschede, a clock manufacturer, this sandstone-clad Beaux-Arts house is the best-known work of Samuel S. Godley, a Cincinnati architect. It was the Herschede family manse until 1954, then a funeral home and then a law office. In the 1980s, Dale Schlanser, a Packard automobile salesman and collector, converted the property back to a private residence and expanded the garage.

It is on Reading Road, a major thoroughfare in the historic North Avondale neighborhood, five miles northeast of downtown and two and a half miles northeast of the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden.

Size: 8,502 square feet

Price per square foot: $70

Indoors: Ascending an exterior flight of concrete steps, you pass through an ornate wrought-iron grate into a marble vestibule, and then through mahogany double doors into a grand entrance that culminates in a double-winged staircase.

Mahogany pocket doors open to front parlors on either side. On the left is the more feminine room, with red-striped silk wall coverings framed by white-painted carved wood panels; the working gas fireplace (one of six in the home) and ceiling have gilded details. On the right, the more masculine parlor is trimmed in polished mahogany and the wall silk is cream. It opens to a solarium with mosaic floor tile.

Beyond this room is a 19-by-20-foot dining room with hand-tooled leather wall panels flanked by mahogany pilasters, a marble fireplace, gilded plaster ceiling molding and two sets of French doors with etched glass and transom lights leading to the solarium. (A second sun porch is off the back of this room.)

Across the hallway is the kitchen; it was renovated in the 1980s with floor-to-ceiling wood cabinetry and connects to an eat-in butler’s pantry with a wall of built-ins for storing china and other tableware.

The staircase has a bronze railing and is ornamented with a three-panel leaded-green-glass window. At the top is a parlor with hand-painted walls and Art Nouveau-style French doors opening to a balcony.

A room used as a library is at the center of the floor, and four bedrooms are at the corners. Two of the bedrooms, with matching French doors and balconies, flank the parlor. Like many rooms in the home, they have oak floors with boards laid in concentric rectangles. Both also have fireplaces. The bathroom off the room used as the master has a pedestal sink and a stall shower. The two rear bedrooms are set up as offices.

The original 18-by-47-foot ballroom is on the third floor, reached by a back staircase. That level also includes three bedrooms and a full bathroom.

Finally, there is an enormous basement with a laundry room.

Outdoor space: A driveway passes under a portico and continues to a large paved area in the back. The original two-bay garage was expanded to hold five vehicles. Upstairs is a one-bedroom apartment with a kitchen, a full bath and two additional rooms.

Taxes: $13,367 (2018, based on a tax assessment of $542,220)

Contact: Adam Sanregret, Cincinnati Historic Homes, Coldwell Banker West Shell, 513-259-3001; coldwellbanker.com

Landgrove, Vt. | $589,000

A 1991 post-and-beam house with three bedrooms and two bathrooms, on a 19.1-acre lot

This Cape Cod-style house was built as a year-round residence for the owner, who later used it as a vacation home. It is in a rural town about 15 miles northeast of Manchester and the same distance southwest of Ludlow. Landgrove lacks a business district, but shops, restaurants and galleries can be found in the surrounding communities of Londonderry, Peru and Weston, all within five miles. The Bromley Mountain and Magic Mountain ski areas are less than 15 minutes away. The Stratton Mountain and Okemo Mountain resorts are within 25 minutes. Boston is about three hours southeast, and New York City is about three and a half hours southwest.

Size: 2,778 square feet

Price per square foot: $212

Indoors: A marble-tiled foyer leads to a room with hardwood floors and a white-painted timber ceiling with open beams. A Rumford fireplace is on one side, and an open kitchen with maple cabinets and Vermont marble countertops is on the other. In between are seating and dining areas illuminated by six-over-six sash windows. A glass door opens to the back.

A windowed coatroom with built-ins for clothing and gear is immediately to the right of the front door, and there is a small study with built-in bookshelves off the living room. The main floor has a bathroom with marble floor tile and a shower.

The three bedrooms on the second floor include a master with maple built-in bookshelves and a vaulted ceiling pierced with windows. The hall bathroom has a marble floor and a combined tub and shower.

There is a bonus room under the roof gable on the third floor, and a walkout basement that includes a playroom with a wood-burning stove.

Outdoor space: Cross-country skiing trails, stone walls, specimen trees and perennial gardens are features of the rolling property. There is also a storage shed.

Taxes: $11,696

Contact: Claudia Harris, Mary Mitchell Miller Real Estate, 802-379-0347; mmmrealestate.com

Richmond, Va. | $599,000

A 1907 brick house with four bedrooms and two and a half bathrooms, on a 0.09-acre lot

This house is in a historic neighborhood known as the Fan district, because of its shape. It is a block from West Broad Street, a business-lined artery leading directly to downtown, two miles southeast. Virginia Commonwealth University’s campus is a mile east. The owner is Alyse Auernheimer, one of the listing agents.

Size: 2,986 square feet

Price per square foot: $201

Indoors: An original glass front door opens to a hallway divided by a row of Corinthian columns from a pair of connected parlors to the right. These rooms have nine-foot ceilings, white-painted floors and exposed-brick fireplaces with mirrored overmantels (the fireplaces are currently not in use).

They are followed by the original dining room, now used as a family room, with parquet floors and a fireplace. This room leads into a kitchen with wood floors, white cabinets and a commercial range with six burners, a griddle and two ovens. The top of the breakfast bar slides to one side to reveal stairs that descend into the basement.

Three of the upstairs bedrooms include decorative fireplaces, and the fourth has large windows and was used as a painting studio. The master faces the street and includes three closets and a private bathroom with a claw-foot tub.

Outdoor space: The home has a picturesque, columned front porch and a large deck off the kitchen on the side. The backyard is fenced. There is off-street parking for two cars.

Taxes: $6,588

Contact: Kathryn Oti or Alyse Auernheimer, Scott Garnett Team at One South Realty Group, 804-467-8901; forsale.onesouthrealty.com

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$750,000 Homes in Louisiana, the District of Columbia and New York

New Orleans | $749,000

An 1836 house with two bedrooms and two bathrooms on 0.07 acres

This two-story house with plantation shutters and a wrought-iron balcony is in the Marigny neighborhood, three blocks east of the music clubs on Frenchmen Street. Walk another block west, and you’re in the French Quarter. Built as a single-family home for Jean Baptiste Lamothe, a goldsmith and jeweler who died in 1874, the concrete-and-brick house was eventually turned into a duplex. It was restored to its original configuration in 1994, and renovated over the last two decades with a new kitchen and bathrooms, as well as a rebuilt front wall and a new balcony. Buyers may opt to purchase the furniture.

Size: 1,920 square feet

Price per square foot: $390

Indoors: The front door opens into a 14-foot-wide living room with stained concrete floors (found throughout the lower level) and a wall of exposed brick with a decorative fireplace.

The kitchen follows, shotgun style, with wood cabinets wrapping around a corner, next to a second decorative fireplace, and with space in the center for a table or island. The following room could be used for dining. Finally, there is a study that opens to a rear vestibule leading to the backyard or upstairs, and a bathroom with a shower.

The main bedroom is at the front of the house and holds double sets of French doors that open to the upstairs balcony overlooking Mandeville Street. Like the main level, it has brick walls and a decorative fireplace, but the flooring is hardwood. Pocket doors open to a sitting room with a pair of closets. The bathroom is along a corridor beyond that and has ceramic floor and wall tile, a walk-in shower, and a washer and dryer. The second bedroom is at the rear.

Outdoor space: The 155-foot-long lot is unusually deep for the neighborhood. The backyard is fenced and paved, with plantings along the perimeter and a koi pond. The property has no off-street parking.

Taxes: $7,688 (estimated, with homestead exemption)

Contact: Kara Breithaupt, Snap Realty, 504-444-6400; search.snaprealtynola.com

Washington | $737,500

A condominium with two bedrooms and two and a half bathrooms, in an 1897 Gothic Revival church converted in 2016

This home is in the Stanton Park neighborhood in the Capitol Hill Historic District, between two lively business areas: the H Street Corridor, four blocks north, and Eastern Market, a 146-year-old gathering place for food vendors and artists, six blocks south. Barracks Row, another historic area that has been renovated as a commercial strip, is also close by.

Size: 1,037 square feet

Price per square foot: $711

Indoors: This second-floor unit has exposed-brick walls, high ceilings and restored stained-glass windows. It is on the second floor, reached by a grand central staircase or an elevator.

An entrance hallway leads to a living room with hardwood floors, a wall of windows and a kitchen separated by a marble-top breakfast bar at one end. The hallway takes you past a bedroom on your left, which has a coffered wall, a high interior window admitting light from the living room, and an en suite bathroom with white subway tile and a combined tub and shower.

The master suite is on the other side of the unit. It has a bedroom with two arched stained-glass windows and two walls of brick, one with a shallow niche for a bureau. The master bathroom has double sinks and a walk-in glass shower. The walk-in master closet is organized with built-in drawers and cubbies.

A half bathroom is off the living room, and there is also a closet with a stacked washing machine and dryer.

Outdoor space: Lincoln Park, the largest park on Capitol Hill, is about four blocks southeast. Kingsman Field dog park is about the same distance northeast.

Taxes: $4,924, plus a $391 monthly homeowner’s fee

Contact: Michael Lederman, Compass, 703-346-0455; compass.com

Copake Falls, N.Y. | $699,000

A clapboard farmhouse with four bedrooms and four bathrooms, on six acres

This Columbia County home was built in the 1890s and operated as an inn and working farm from the late 1920s until the early 1940s. At one point, a chauffeur for the Astor family owned it, and then it was a boardinghouse for farmhands. The current owners have been in possession for the last 10 years.

The house is about 20 minutes southwest of Great Barrington, Mass., 30 minutes southeast of Hudson, N.Y., and 15 minutes north of Millerton, N.Y. It is also near Taconic State Park and the Catamount ski resort in New York and Bash Bish Falls State Park, in Massachusetts. Fresh meat and eggs are available from a farm across the road.

Size: 2,780 square feet

Price per square foot: $251

Indoors: Working with local contractors, the owners, one of whom is a partner at the New York design firm Rockwell Group, stripped and re-clad the exterior and thoroughly renovated the interiors, taking cues from the muted palette and simplicity of Shaker design.

The main entrance opens to the living room, which has a bay window where a nine-foot Christmas tree is displayed every year; the owners added the Malm fireplace to create the feeling of a ski chalet. The dining room retains its original ceiling beams, and Shaker pegs now run along the picture rail.

The kitchen was gutted and its ceiling raised; it has hand-painted cement floor tiles, honed-marble countertops, Danish pendant light fixtures and high-end appliances. A Dutch door leads to a west-facing breezeway with sunset views.

The main level also includes a guest bedroom with an en suite marble-tile bathroom with a claw-foot bathtub, and a small study. The owners replaced a decrepit sun porch off the dining room with a screened porch that faces north, toward their large garden.

The three upstairs bedrooms include a master suite with an open bathroom and a walk-in closet with a stacked washing machine and dryer. From the bed, you can see the walk-in glass-and-marble shower with multiple shower heads. There is also a toilet closet. A second bedroom has an en suite bathroom with a shower.

Outdoor space: A tiny, recently built Shaker barn on the property is used for outdoor dining. A white picket-fenced area next to it was prepared for a garden. Specimen trees include a large catalpa tree in front and a century-old cottonwood tree in back.

Taxes: $9,838

Contact: Jen Harvey, Berkshire Property Agents, 413-446-8489; berkshirepropertyagents.com

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