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3/2 SWMH ON PAVED ROAD - Open and split floor plan. Separate laundry room. Close to several oat ramps to Suwannee River for fishing or boating. Nice area cleared out around mobile for yard, rest of trees left for privacy. Several antique shops and nice restaurants in area. Approx. 20 mi to Gulf of Mexico. Needs TLC. Owner willing to look at offers. CHRISTMAS SPECIAL - Owner will reduce price by $5,000 if purchased before Christmas!
$58,300 MLS 757690 220-Lois
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NICE D/W ON 2 ACRES - Secluded from main road. Lots of room and privacy. Only a few miles from Suwannee River and several boat ramps, but not in flood zone. Approximately 8 miles to Old Town, or several springs within 20 miles. Restaurants, antique stores, hardware and lumber companies in area. CHRISTMAS SPECIAL - Owner will reduce price by $5,000 if purchased before Christmas!
$82,000 MLS 755570 220-Lois
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VERY CLEAN AND WELL KEPT 2006 DW Mfg HOME on 2.97 acres. Large garage w/2 bay doors. Office and bathroom partitioned off. Clean up room in mobile by side door w/ sink, small refrigerator, cupboard and counter space. Mobile sits back in off the road. Hard to see driving past. Cleared out around mobile. Summer kitchen, large living room. Master bedroom off dinning room and other 3 bedrooms are off living room. Must see to appreciate. CHRISTMAS SPECIAL - Owner will reduce price by $5,000 if purchased before Christmas!
$155,000 MLS 755140 220-Lois
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PRIVATE AND SECLUDED
2/2, 2005 DWMH, set up to hurricane code plus generator. Only lived in approximately 6 months. Ovrsize septic, double pane windows, aluminum entrance doors. Electric AC and reverse cycle heat strip. Short distance to boat ramp to the Suwannee River. Home set back from the road with trees in front blocking view of home.JUST REDUCED! $96,500 MLS 756702 220-Lois
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three down and two to go
1. the floor is heated again and
2. all the baseboards are tiled and grouted.
3. the small jacuzzi has an air switch now so you dont have to wait till the tub is half full to turn on the timer or get out and reset the timer.
yet to go:
reordered stolen bidet ( last seen on I-84 heading east) arrives
bidet and faucet go in
all this tomorrow if they stay on schedule. then...........
I photograph room - jim cleans- and we move back into our master suite. hallalujeh
Homes on the market in New York City, Aspen, Colo., and Bel Air, Calif.
By ANNA BAHNEY
Published: June 20, 2007
New York City
WHAT: Two-bedroom condominium
HOW MUCH: $28,500,000
PER SQUARE FOOT: $2,612
This 23-room penthouse condominium is in the TriBeCa neighborhood of lower Manhattan. It has 10,911 interior and 1,991 exterior square feet. Situated at the top of a doorman building with its own private elevator, this five-story apartment has a dumbwaiter, as well as a sculptural stainless-steel and curved-glass staircase. The property is contemporary in design and has a double-height dining space with a glass chandelier by the artist Dale Chihuly. A three-story-tall installation by the artist Jenny Holzer also comes with the property. A double-height retractable projection screen allows viewing from two floors. There is a full-floor master suite with a fireplace, a double marble bath with steam shower, a dressing room with a skylight, a custom-made stainless steel hot tub surrounded by a mosaic mural, and a terrace. The property has three full baths, three half baths, three fireplaces, a wet bar on every level and a rooftop gym with its own terrace. There are four outdoor spaces, including a wraparound terrace on the main living level, accessible from the living room, dining room and kitchen. The monthly taxes are $6,078, and the monthly common charges are $8,657. Stephen Mcrae, Sotheby’s International Realty, (212) 431-2424; www.sothebyshomes.com/nyc
Aspen, Colo.
WHAT: Eight-bedroom house with a one-bedroom guest house
HOW MUCH: $29,250,000
PER SQUARE FOOT: $2,540
Situated on five acres east of downtown Aspen, this three-story, 11,512-square-foot home is set against a hill with a landscaped stream running through the front yard. It has views of the Rocky Mountains and the North Star Preserve. This lodge-style house was built in 1981 and underwent a major renovation in 2000. It has rough-hewn posts and exposed ceiling beams throughout. It is sold furnished with western-style furniture and appointments, including antler chandeliers and wrought-iron light fixtures. The property has eight full baths, three half baths, four fireplaces, a three-car attached garage, a media room, an exercise room, a hot tub and a sauna. There is a separate one-bedroom guest house. Several rooms have French doors opening to the lawn, patio or deck. The property borders public land and has a pond in addition to the stream. The annual taxes are $27,895. Joshua Saslove, Joshua & Co. of Aspen, Christie’s Affiliate, (970) 925-8810; www.joshuaco.com
Bel Air, Calif.
WHAT: Nine-bedroom house with a two-bedroom guest house
HOW MUCH: $29,995,000
PER SQUARE FOOT: $999
This four-story Italian-style villa in the old area of Bel Air features ornate moldings, columned hallways and a grand two-story-high entryway. The gated 30,000-square-foot house was built in 1927. A three-level addition for entertaining, completed in 2003, was built beneath the house. The house is approached by a stone motor court with space for 20 cars. Beyond the 12-foot-high glass and steel front door are archways leading to a living room, a kitchen and a breakfast room. The property has 20 baths, four fireplaces, three secured elevators, two offices, a racquetball court and gymnasium, a two-lane bowling alley, an indoor pool and spa and a movie theater. Several connecting terraces overlook an acre of landscaped lawns, fountains and gardens. A stone courtyard with a center fountain, accessible from the house on three sides through arched French doors. The backyard includes another pool and spa, an outdoor kitchen with a bar, and a separate entrance that leads directly to the entertainment levels, all surrounded by mature landscaping and palm trees. There is also a detached two-bedroom guest house. If the property sells at asking price, taxes will be $374,937. Buyers must be prepared to present verifiable financial information before a showing. David Kramer, Hilton & Hyland Real Estate, Christie’s Great Estates, (310) 691-2400; www.hiltonhyland.com
This week we began to tackle the garden level. This part of the house comprises about 1200 square feet of space used for utilitarian purposes: access from the garage into a mudroom, access to the back garden through sun bathed full height French doors, a full bathroom with two person shower, laundry room, Jim’s workshop, garden and house storage, and the exercise room. The exercise room is divided into two sections. An open floor space for yoga, stretching and Pilates and another area for the Nordic track and treadmill. We left the weight machine in the south and we are selling the stair stepper as Jim’s knees can’t handle it. It also houses the stereo equipment and the main collection of records cassettes and CD’s. And I stole a corner for my field guides and herbarium – the little naturalist in me is still kicking.
Along one wall we will install large mirrors so I can check my alignment. And maybe a ballet bar with height sized exactly for me. After seeing Do Jump and Trockadero I realize that the dancer in me really never has to stop and if I apply myself I can regain a lot of the flexibility and balance I always had. It’s also the sort of exercise I like the most and then I can jump into a steam shower or run upstairs to the Jacuzzi. It’s an exciting prospect. Last night it was exhilarating to walk out of the Schnitzer Concert Hall with a thousand other people and passing by restaurants seating people at ten o clock and bars filled with people laughing and discussing how wonderful things are. The vital downtown area is a thrill after so long in the south where the world shut down around nine I clock unless you were a hooker or a drug addict. Tonight we are seeing Norma at the Keller. It is one of two block busters we have never seen live after a late arrival to opera loving. The other is Madame Butterfly which may be playing later this year. Tosca remains the most amazing opera yet, although I recall my fierce love of the medium upon first seeing Manon Lescaux. Maybe in the godfather they talk about either loving opera right away or never really acquiring the taste. Jim feels lukewarm about it but I fell quickly and wildly in love with it. After modern dance it is my favorite performance art. But the bottom line is that we don’t have to go to NYC to see great ballet opera art or find fantastic food, oh which reminds me that the brussel sprouts and broccoli and all kinds of pears in the Portland groceries are to die for right now. I copied a bakeries frangipani tarts with Bosque pears and they were amazing. Tonight we have poached salmon… again. Who can tire of it?
In our life we have owned three pieces of property. Three homes and one office condominium where I had my private practice until I switched things in my home and set off an entrance and room for consulting at home. Each time the home we bought was one of the first we saw and something irrational just “took” or spoke to us. Each one very different and each one meeting different needs. But each was older, in a neighborhood that had a strong sense of community and history.
Our first home was in historic Montclair in Denver Colorado while it was built as a post war tract house over the years it has been modified. And tudorized and by the time we purchased it the landscaping was mature and abundant, and the den had a fireplace and wonderful beamed ceiling. We further add to it by building a magnificent bi level deck and awning because in Denver one lives outside three seasons a year. It had one bathroom and two sinks which we thought was the height of luxury. And while the kitchen was small we remodeled and were able to really add to the style and space without spending a small fortune. When we moved to the south we cried as we marched through the empty room and said goodbye to a place that had parties, kids decorating cookies, miscarriages and dream of a baby, lifelong friends and countless soul talks on a pink sectional sofa. We spent 68,000 on it and got 160,000 when we sold it
We were going to what I thought was my dream home in my idea of hell… the deep south. The house is rumored to have been a Lockwood house but no documentation. When we later visited other Lockwood homes the tiling and the arches and the moldings were identical but without proof it couldn’t actually be CALLED Lockwood. It was built in 1924 in a suburb of Montgomery called Cloverdale later subsumed by the city. It was built for the Davis family and eventually we came to meet the daughter of the man who built it.. she gave us a wonderful history of the home and brought alive the brass step bell on the dining room floor used to call the maid. It was a gracious beauty. With amazing architectural details. Amazing plantings, and we stole the entire second floor and put in a 1500 square feet master suite with a dressing rooms, two person shower, a gym and windows overlooking about a dozen tall pines. I adored the house, the indigo blue guest room, the dream kitchen I created in art deco steel to compliment the house and the amazing master suite where every inch was customized for us including light outlets in the medicine cabinets. It was the scene of thirteen Passover seders, 13 new years eve dinners, high teas, board meetings, fund raiser dinners for the temple and many many cups of coffee with my female soul mate Diane. It is where I learned to love bourbon and made my own sewing room and where I ecplored the depths of depression because I was in the wrong place at the wrong time and felt I would be there forever. So as much happiness as I felt to leave the south, I never imagined I would have a house as wonderful and interesting as that one. It was about 3200 square feet of gracious southern life, with high ceilings, expansive windows and on a small curved street that was as quite as the country at night. We spent 140,000 for it and sold it for 280,000 and now we come to Portland. Home… the place I was genetically and temperamentally engineered to be.
The portland house is even more expansive and has luxuries beyond what we though we could afford up here. Two Jacuzzi tubs. 4500 square feet, lofts and den and library and dining room and guest suite and two dressing rooms and a work shop and a studio, and the landscaping is brilliantly quirky. All Japanese and specimen trees in the front and native landscaping in the back. From one block away you can see mt hoods. If spaced right, you could easily seat 24 people for dinner with crowding and the kitchen seems huge compared to the galley Denver kitchen with two oven and a wolf cooktop and a pantry about the size of a NYC apartment Jim and I rented when we first lived together. And a large fireplace and a wood stove and two deck and two patios and a bedroom that feels like the garden of eden on a good day. It cost us 470,000 – an amazing steal in Portland and we have maybe put another 30,000 into it with the kitchen redo, appliance and some furniture and some more landscaping. So many people our age are scaling down and here we go up the ladder to more and more space and quiet because:
1. we both have hobbies that require things: tools supplies and space to plan. 2 we have worked hard our entire lives with no help for college or graduate school and we deserve it. 3 we were not blessed with kids so we have been able to do things others may not be able to do 4 and this is the way we want to live the rest of our lives. Knocking around SW Portland. Exploring, seeing ballet and theatre and opera and planting call a lilies and walking in the many parks. And visiting the ocean when it calls to us and heading to the mountains when that fix is knocking on our veins. So this morning when I put on my cowboy boots, shoving the legs of my jeans into them and grabbed my Mercedes McCambridge hat from Arizona and threw on my blue funky pom pom sweater Jim saw me and said. Oh my there is my little cowgirl I could really love you a lot and laughed I knew it’s a damn good life and I am glad to have lasted this long to now know it.
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