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"Our house is a very very very fine house, with two cats in the yard. Life used to be so hard, but everything is easy now." Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young
$198,000
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We have loved our house and our neighborhood for 16 years and are eager to share all the details, so we've created this "virtual guided tour" until we can show off our place to everyone in person.
What attracted us to this cute Cape Cod is its architectural details and its location. The home was designed and built in 1948 by noted local architect and North Carolina State University graduate, Frank Walser. Mr. Walser and his family lived in the home and raised their children here for about 10 years. Mr. Walser's father-in-law owned a lumber mill and his home reflects the use of fine woods and many architectural touches, such as tongue and groove exposed beam ceiling, recessed alcove shelving next to the fireplace, bay window seating with underseat storage in the living room, wide baseboards, picture molding throughout, and finely detailed door molding, to name a few.
The home is perfectly located: walking distance to NCSU, Cameron Village shopping, a park for dog-running, volleyball, softball, little league, theaters, greenway with stream, Raleigh Rose Garden and the busline. The neighborhood is so desireable that high-end homes continue to be constructed nearby keeping property values going up.
Since we've owned the home, we've remodeled the sunroom, adding tiling, crown molding, and built-in floor to ceiling bookshelves; built a brick patio with wisteria-festooned pergola overhead for shade, and a little fish pond; added a huge English cottage style perennial border and an arched arbor over the front walkway; remodeled the bathroom, adding oak flooring and a pedestal sink, and refinished the original porcelain bathtub; and fully floored the attic for over 900 square feet of easy-access storage with plenty of headroom. In fact, the attic is so large, it could easily form the basis for a new master suite or a playroom/hobby room.
All this makes for inside the beltline living at its best!
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Features: about 1,200 square feet of living space, with a fully floored attic of about 900 square feet, a detached one car garage/workshop with electricity and flooring, 2 bedrooms and one bathroom, a galley kitchen, fir-paneled living room, dining room with tongue and groove exposed beam ceiling and paneling below painted wall above, 20 by 10 foot brick patio with pergola and fish pond, a lot size of .22 acres, heavily landscaped, low maintenance no grass front yard, English cottage garden backyard with about 200 different plants.
Architectural details galore! |
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