Home of the Week: Medford condo with private porch, deck
The home, priced at $799,900, has three bedrooms and 2.5 baths.
18 Princeton St., Medford
$799,900
Style: Condo
Year built: 1910; renovated 2017
Square feet: 1,623
Bedrooms: 3
Baths: 2 full, 1 half
Sewer/water: Public
Fee: $200 (estimated)
Taxes: $7,286 (2017)
With its characteristic Gambrel roof and maintenance-free siding colored a flat red, this building looks like a barn in Pennsylvania Dutch country. It’s not a barn, though, but a two-family converted into two condo units — in a neighborhood with street names like Princeton, Radcliffe, and Harvard in a city Boston Globe Magazine recently named one of its Top Spots to Live.
Entry into this home is by the stairs on the right side of the property, stairs that lead to a broad, shared porch. This unit combines the second and third floors. Inside, the short entry hallway has a half bath behind a pocket door on the right and a comfortably sized office with a bay window on the left.
The main space on this floor combines the living and dining areas and the kitchen into one large room. Broad, white crown molding and a series of recessed lights span the space. The flooring is new oak.
The living area (about 144 square feet) has a windowed bump-out and a door to the private porch that runs the length of the front of the house.
In the center of the open floor plan is the 211-square-foot dining area, where a table for four sits under two windows.
But where one dines often is not as interesting as the place where the meals are prepared, and in this unit, the 168-square-foot kitchen offers stainless-steel appliances, including a gas stove with double ovens, and an apron sink. The island, bathed in the glow of pendant lights, provides seating for three.
The granite counters are the star of the show here. They are mainly white with black speckles and swirls, sort of like what one sees when mixing Oreo cookie crumbs into vanilla soft serve.
The kitchen offers access to a three-season porch in the rear of the home.
The second floor is 14 steps up. The master suite is set in the front of the house, down a short hallway. The bath, found behind a pocket door to the left, has a white vanity topped with marble, a skylight, and a shower with a frameless-glass door, a bench, and a marble surround. The flooring is porcelain tile.
The bedroom area, which is about 230 square feet, boasts a walk-in closet with two entrances that is essentially two large closets melded into one.
The second of the home’s three bedrooms is 139 square feet and has two windows, one of which is in the walk-in closet. A door opens to a Jack-and-Jill bath that has a tub/shower combo with a white subway tile surround, a single vanity with a dark wood cabinet, and porcelain flooring.
The third bedroom is bigger (156 square feet), but does not have a walk-in closet. It offers a regular closet and deep storage nooks behind doors.
The flooring in all of the bedrooms is oak.
A laundry room completes this level.
This unit comes with a deeded parking space in the driveway, as well as exclusive access to the small backyard, storage unit, and utility closet.
The listing agent is Mariam Beurekjian of J Barrett & Company in Beverly. As of press time, an offer had been accepted on this home.
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