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The 5,798‑square‑foot home presents a Spanish Colonial face to the street.
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The second story offers the most impressive view of the home’s negative‑edge swimming pool.
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Two routes to the master
by RaeAnne Marsh

When you work in the homebuilding industry, it’s hard to resist adding something here ¼ and here ¼ and ¼

So, as homebuilders, the owners of this property lavished attention on the design of their home in DC Ranch’s exclusive Silverleaf community.

The 5,798‑square‑foot home presets a Spanish Colonial face to the street, unmarred by expanse of garage door with the garages attached at the rear. Extensive landscaping blends with the garden‑like setting of the neighborhood, where this property enjoys a corner lot location. Canterra stone pavers provide the final touch on the newly completed approach to the front door.

A knotty alder front door opens to a spacious vestibule, where your eyes are immediately drawn to the patio and backyard visible through the double French doors directly to the fore. The vestibule’s floor of 16‑inch travertine tiles accented with black marble insets flows through the arched doorway to the right into the wide expanse of travertine‑tiled living room/dining room. Crank‑open windows look out to the front and side, while the French doors open to the patio.

The long view, as you step into the living room, is a series of arched doorways. This artistic visual presentation runs the length of the house, ending at a tall, dark wood, paneled door that grants access to the two‑car garage. There is also a detached single‑car garage.

Affording symmetry to the far wall, the doorway to the hallway above is balanced by another arched doorway that connects to the kitchen through a long butler’s pantry. Cabinets line the long wall, the upper ones broken only by a cheery window in the middle. Centered in the lower length of cabinets, you’ll find two SubZero refrigerated drawers.

While the butler’s pantry gives entry to the kitchen, a more expansive view of the kitchen is offered from the opposite side.

Two wide islands parallel each other across the kitchen, their countertops a thick slab of chiseled‑edge black granite. An arched alcove housing a Viking Professional six‑burner gas range and fully tiled backsplash patterned in travertine dominate the far wall. Built into the antiquated, painted cabinets are Viking Professional double ovens and microwave. Some cabinetry is styled as display, with windowed doors.

The cabinets that make up the two islands show their dark wood finish, featuring the pecan, walnut and alder used extensively throughout the house. Set into the further island, directly opposite the range, the stainless steel sink is convenient to both the range behind it and the refrigerator to one side.

A deeply overhung countertop on the outer island affords seating opportunity. An additional informal eating area lies just beyond the kitchen through another arched doorway. This breakfast “nook” essentially comprises its own room. Double French doors serve as an egress to the rear portion of the backyard.

The great room, which opens directly to the kitchen, connects to the outdoor entertainment areas on either side of it. A two‑way fireplace is built into a partition wall that separates the great room into two areas–the larger space that faces the kitchen and a smaller one with windows on three sides. Both fireplace openings feature mantels plastered as single units with the wall and feature heavy, molded, scalloped edges. Both sides are finished for the latest in technology, with electrical outlets, phone and co‑axial cable fittings.

Bedrooms are all on the second floor, the stairs to which ascend in two flights from the hallway next to the kitchen. Conveniently located next to the stairs is the downstairs powder room, luxuriously finished with travertine floor and a black, chiseled‑edge granite countertop.

Upstairs offers the most impressive view of the home’s negative‑edge swimming pool.

Its free‑form shape stretches along the side, with a serpentine wall of stone rising from the spillway facing the house.

Two bedrooms share a jack‑and‑jill bathroom at one front corner of the house, one bedroom slightly larger with a separate small sitting area and a Juliet balcony outside a single French door. A third bedroom lies off a hallway toward the rear of the house, this one with a private bathroom. Whereas the jack‑and‑jill bathroom features a travertine‑tiled shower, the single bathroom enjoys a tub.

The hallway ends at the carriage house above the two‑car garage. This suite includes its own fully appointed bathroom with tub. Double French doors open to a small balcony and look out on mountain views.

The upstairs hallway leads as well to the laundry room, where cabinets line the long wall above the washer and dryer. Conveniently situated to all bedrooms, the laundry room lies adjacent to the master suite. In fact, its second door enters the spacious master closet.

This laundry entrance offers one route to the master suite, as the closet leads onward to the master bathroom at the rear of the house. The other route starts near the head of the stairs where, across a short landing, is the door to the master bedroom. Wood‑floored like all the bedrooms, the master includes a private waiting room and its own small balcony that affords daytime views of mountain and nighttime ones of city lights.

The adjoining master bath features his and hers vanities flanking a rear‑facing window with window seat. The tub lies across from the window, its travertine surround built up against a wall of the shower. More travertine lines the shower, except where window pane offers a view out over the tub and across the room and, finally, out the rear window to mountain views.

This five‑bedroom, four‑and‑a‑half‑bath home is the least expensive in Silverleaf, offered at $3 million through Sandra L. Wilken at Sandra Wilken Luxury Properties (480) 596‑0001.

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