Home of the Week: A Cambridge 3-family is transformed into a modern 3-bed condo
This 2,088-square-foot unit features a finished lower level with a wet bar and a laundry room with a sink.
55-57 Reed St., Unit 57
$1,345,000
Style: Condo
Year built: 1897/converted 2019
Square feet: 2,088
Bedrooms: 3
Baths: 3 full, 1 half
Fee: $150 a month
Taxes: To be determined
This 0.14-acre lot on a North Cambridge side street once hosted a three-family house, but now two freestanding condos share the spot. The condo featured here was the result of a gut renovation of the three-family. Its sister property, on the site of the old garage out back, is new.
Stairs with a black-metal railing lead to the front door of Unit 57 and a small porch lined with unstained wood siding. A white door opens into an open space encompassing the living and dining areas and the kitchen.
The kitchen is on the left as one enters, and its appearance is captivating. The shiny newness of the stainless-steel range and exhaust hood are eclipsed by the blue ceramic tile that runs from the top of the range to the edge of the ceiling, serving as a backsplash and an accent point for the kitchen hotspot. The rest of the backsplash is a collection of blue and white polished tile in geometric shapes.
Wooden slabs serve as shelves. The counters are quartz. The Shaker-style cabinets are painted white. An island with waterfall edges sits under bulbous-glass pendant lights and offers seating for two.
Wide-planked oak flooring that’s a “wire-brushed French oak color’’ adds to the cohesion of the kitchen and living and dining areas. The ceilings here are 9 feet.
The living area is in the front of the house next to a bay window bump-out. The dining area is in a rear corner near the stairs to the lower level.
A half bath with black octagonal porcelain tile, a white acrylic sink, and wood cabinetry completes this floor.
The bedrooms are on the top level, which has its own spirit. Exposed beams run along the ceilings, companioned by snaking air ducts. At the head of the stairs, there is a full bath with concrete gray ceramic flooring tile, a tub/shower surround of wavy gray ceramic tile with a matte finish, and a single vanity with wood cabinets in a light gray and a marble top.
There are two bedrooms opposite each other. The larger (about 120 square feet) is on the right, and offers a wide closet, a cathedral ceiling, and a 192-square-foot loft. The second bedroom is 81 square feet. Both bedrooms have a single window.
The master suite, which is 210 square feet, completes this floor. It has a beamed 18-foot cathedral ceiling and a walk-in closet. In the en-suite bath, there are dual sinks in a floating vanity with white quartz sinks, as well as a gray and white marble floor and a shower with multiple heads, frameless-glass doors, a polished-marble surround that looks like curling waves, and a basketweave marble floor.
The lower-level family room is one large space uncluttered by lally columns. This floor features a wet bar, a laundry room, and a full bath with a tub/shower combo, faux marble ceramic tile, and a single sink with white cabinetry and a marble top.
This unit comes with two tandem parking spaces nearest the house, a small patio in the rear of the home, and about one-third of the yard. The remainder belongs to the other unit.
Patti Brainard of Compass in Cambridge is the listing agent.
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