Large estates or a "Country House" are easily found in England and Europe from the 18th and 19th centuries. This home, located in the southern United States,  is rooted in that style, but built from the ground up with modern conveniences and energy efficiency. Constructed of rough-faced ashlar with limestone details and reclaimed "old wood" sinker cypress it is stately, beautiful and artfully rendered with old-world craftsmanship seldom seen in these modern times.  

Rich landscaping and formal gardens showcase this property, that sits like a jewel in its setting. The picture to the left is the formal courtyard garden... the house kind of wraps around it ... you can easily pick it out in the floor plan when you open it.  

I especially liked the suspended, ceiling-level, playhouse situated between two of the bedrooms (Launch the photo in Bedroom # 2 to see this). Click floor plan for 2nd floor to see this part of the house. 

--- AND --- Oh my, my, my, the Grand Stair Hall and 2-story Living Room of reclaimed sinker cypress really do take your breath away! Open the First Floor I mean.... few people BUILD like this anymore!  To the right is the entry.

Within this magnificent home, generously proportioned rooms are superbly appointed.  Come explore this treasured space.

This large estate property has FIVE nested floor plans ... select the area of the property that interests you from the Overview, which is an index of the property plans --- and then EXPLORE every detail of this amazing property... magnify the file online to see everything!  The 5 nested floor plans with embedded photos are inter-linked, so you can't get lost, and your next view screen is just a click away.  If you click on Amenities Text it is detailed text description of the features and finishes of the property in an easy to follow room-by-room format --- so you can focus quickly on the particular area of the home that attracts your interest -- and then link back to the pictorial floor plans. 

HINT==>  When we write our Amenities Text we start at the front door and literally lead you by the hand from room to room, noting the features and finishes in each room ... so nothing is overlooked and EVERY space is visited and commented upon.  The text is inter-linked with the floor plans, so any time you are reading and want to see that area on the floor plan ... you are a click-away... and an easy click back to the text.  

With a property this large .. instead of dropping bread crumbs .. our suggestion would be to print out the Amenities text on paper and use it as your guidebook as you navigate around the online floor plans popping open the photos. The Amenities text IS 13 pages long, so that level of detail is not required for most viewers ... but for interested buyers ... it will give you an incomparable representation of the features and finishes of this elegant property!  ENJOY!

Thanks for stopping by!

Judith, The Floor Plan Lady

www.smarteplans.com

Photography by TK Images of Houston, Texas

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SMARTePLANS have photos embedded inside the floor plan that launch with a mouse click .... each photo arrow is positioned in the drawing where the photographer was standing --- so you see the photo from the photographer's perspective when the shot was taken ... in relationship to the drawing... now the photos "make sense" instead of seeing 30+ photos going by in a slide show.

Beneath the photo is a description of that room. Once the photo launches you have a choice to link back to the floor plan and choose another photo, or choose another area of the property to view, or read the amenities text for the WHOLE property (not just that particular room).  All the files are inter-linked so you can seamlessly click around this property, viewing the photos and reading the descriptions.  This is not a video ... you choose what you want to view ... or not

[NOTE: SMARTePLANS are PDF files so they magnify to over 1000%. When the file launches, hold down your CNTL key and roll your mouse wheel up or down to increase or decrease the magnification of your viewing screen.  No image is too small to see... no detail is overlooked.

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