This magnificent home belongs in the 'Dinctive Homes-in-Canada' category. A Queen-style Post & Beam construction, it is situated on nearly two acres of land on the gracious and recreational Kennebecasis River.
A long, shaded, sweeping driveway brings you slowly towards the river where this wonderful home and it's double, detached garage are found surrounded by cedars, oaks and maples. A long cedar boardwalk crosses a brook, which babbles away in the spring, and brings you to the side entrance.
However, you want to enter the house through the front door. Once inside you find yourself on the lower gallery floor. Look up and you see a second gallery floor with open rafters and breathtaking panoramic views of the river and the colourful Kingston Peninsula beyond.
Look down and you overlook the huge, open, main living area where the kitchen, family room, eating area & living room blend into each other. Look out and, through the massive windows (the center window reaches 40 ft. from floor to ceiling) you drink in the beautiful vistas as seen from the top floor. Whether summer, winter, spring or fall the views are awesome.
One truly has to walk through this house to really appreciate its quality and to capture the open, relaxed, cozy ambience that permeates the entire home.
Framed with two hundred year old, hand-hewn pine beams, salvaged from a local barn, this home stands out as one of the most unique properties in the greater Saint John area. Extremely popular in Western Canada and gaining great popularity in the New England states, Post & Beam homes are a rare and delightful find in the Maritimes.
To find such a special one located on waterfront is a treasure indeed! While you will be seduced by the property's vacation-like atmosphere, it is, nonetheless, a home built for entertaining, rich with superior quality amenities including a river that is a virtual year-round playground.
Anchor your boat in your own watery backyard and watch from any corner of the house, as it bobs gently in the summer sunlight or in the pink evening sunset. Swim to your hearts content, or maybe, slip the canoe or kyack into a glassy, windless surface and row away the afternoon. In winter the frozen river is a solid skating rink or snowmobile trail, maybe even set-up your own ice-fishing shack!
Whichever you do, you can be certain that returning to your cozy kitchen woodstove or to the blazing fire in the massive, stone 2-way fireplace will make your family feel like the most special and spoiled people on earth.
Address:
WATERFRONT EXCLUSIVE
Quispamsis,
NB
E2G 1M1
CA
Community of New Listings
Features:
MAIN FLOOR KITCHEN - Appliances less than 4 years old. - Jen-Aire stove, self-cleaning wall oven & microwave all built into a tumbled brick alcove. - Built-in Jen-Aire dishwasher. - Jen-Aire fridge with water filters. - All pine cupboards, multiple bins and specialty drawers plus lots of shelving to display your jars & jugs and other attractive kitchen gadgets. - 2 sinks; 1 double, 1 smaller corner sink. - Wood burning stove with warming oven as in the ‘olde day’, ebony & brass with stone wall backdrop. - Built-in china cabinets. - Cream coloured tiled counters with back splash. - Kitchen cupboard handles custom made by local artisan Vic Stone. - Terra cotta tile floors with radiant heat.
THE KITCHEN runs into a huge open area where family room, living room & dining room can be intermingled or regrouped on a whim. This is open concept at it’s best! This area includes: 3 sets of sliding doors. 2 sets give access to a large cedar deck, another set leads to a large screened-in porch, fully insulated & wired for lights & music. Another set of doors, off the porch, also give access to the deck. - A tall (approx 40 ft.) stone, 2-way fireplace and an equally tall center window make this living area absolutely magnificent. - Separating this family-friendly area from the kitchen is a large, stone built-in planter, plumbed-in for water - could easily be converted to fountain or fish pond.
LOWER GALLERY FLOOR - Cosy stairhall library. - Stair rails are wrought iron in Western Navaho design - handcrafted by local artisan Vic Stone. - 2 children’s bedrooms; Each has a loft, a comfortable sitting room, separate built-in desk area, and the very cosy loft at the top of pine stairs makes for a very private bedroom. Simply a ‘Teenagers Dream’. - Also on main floor is a side entry mudroom with ceramic tile floor and a 10 foot closet - even a cat door!
MASTER BEDROOM - The double bed is handcrafted to fit into the ambiance of the house with its four posters built from pine planks and a wrought-iron headboard in Western Navaho design completes the picture. - Romantic and cosy floor-to-ceiling stone fireplace.
UPPER GALLERY FLOOR Currently used as home office. - Bright, lots of windows with fabulous panaramic views plus serves as a ‘look-off’ down over the lower gallery floor with the front entry and bedrooms, through to the huge, open concept main level. A delightful floor indeed.
ADDITIONAL FEATURES of this property are: Main floor guest bedroom with bath.- Main floor laundry. - Wine cellar. - Utility room with lots of cupboards & working space. - Huge storage room. - 2 oil tanks supply a generator for back-up power in case of power outage.
OTHER TERRIFIC FEATURES of this marvelous property are: Queen-Style Post & Beam construction. Main frame consists of beams salvaged from a 200 year old barn (one beam is 40 feet long!) no nails or bolts here - only wooden pegs in frame. - Radiant heat in all floors throughout entire house except the lofts. - Oil furnace to support back-up emergency generator wired into the house. - All rooms are wired for music except the main floor guest suite and the children’s bedrooms. Speaker system throughout with central control panel in the T.V. room. - Cable in every room. - Satelite Dish. - Roughed-in intercom. - Fully wired for Data (CAT 5) (Vibe capability in every room). - Security alarm system. - Central Vac. - 5 skylights - kitchen & lofts. - Water softener. - Water purifier. - Multiple pot lights and track lighting. - All interior lights are on dimmer switches. - Climate controlled wine cellar. - Main floor laundry room with lots of working space. - Multiple pantries. - Screened-in porch is insulated (floor & walls) so that one can enjoy this cosy room & breathtaking views all year round. It is also wired for future development. - Garage door opener and remotes.
SPECIAL ATTENTION AND CREATIVITY has been afforded to every detail: Stained glass in front entry was custom designed and handcrafted to blend with the Western Navaho design throughout the house by local artisans (P & B). - Wrought iron front door handles chosen from Texas. - All door knobs & handles especially chosen and bought from Somerville Hardware in Toronto. - In bathrooms all towel & tissue holders are custom designed and made by Vic Stone. - Stone for 2-way fireplace on main floor and the one in the master bedroom is New Brunswick stone brought from St. Stephen. - All door & window frames are handcrafted. - All wall boards, touching beams, are hand-molded to fit so that the beams can be seen on both sides of the wall (Reg Potter/Steve Jones construction).
EXTERIOR - Stained cedar exterior. - Handcrafted cupola on the roof. -Well insulated, low Argon, solid wood windows. Windows are varied designs of arched, elliptical, half-circles, stained, etc. - Approximately $20,000 in professional landscaping was completed in 2004 – lots of bark mulch for low maintenance. - Dusk-to-Dawn lights in walk and on stairs. - 1 acre of electronic pet containment. - Detached double-car garage with own electric entrance, workshop & shelving.
Fact Sheet:
Listing Type: Sale Property Type: Waterfront Architecture Type: Contemp Year Built: 2000 Price:
$899,900 Interior Size: 4200 sq. ft. Stories: 2 Lot Size: 79,654 sq. ft. acre(s) Bedrooms: 4 room(s) Bathrooms: 4 room(s) Garage Size (# of cars): 2
