Home of the Week

For $650k, a Holliston ranch without the typical dressing

Property sits on just shy of an acre and offers three bedrooms, 2 full baths, and a one-car garage. Don’t forget the rope swing.

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The living room offers a bow window overlooking the front yard. -Photos by Andre Lambiase

By John R. Ellement

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56 Adam Wheeler Lane, Holliston

$650,000

Style Ranch

Year built 1967

Square feet 1,396

Bedrooms 3

Baths 2 full

Sewer/water Private/public

Taxes $6,762 (2024)

Buck the trend.

Home sizes have mushroomed in the Northeast, but this ranch offers the same level of comfort in a more petite, but fully updated, package. Owned by an interior designer, the home puts a cozy, modern twist on ranch living.

Enter from the main door just to the left of the attached one-car garage. Why? There’s a mudroom with open shelving, coat hooks, and a built-in bench.

The home sits on 0.41 of an acre.

A mudroom with a bench is a welcome addition to any New England home.

Move to the left into the 216-square-foot living room, the largest space in the house. Natural light from a five-pane bow window fills the space. The flooring here and throughout much of the home is a luxury vinyl plank.

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The living room is open to the 110-square-foot dining area, where a trestle table for six sits under a crystal chandelier that evokes images of sun-splashed icicles.

Not surprisingly, the dining area is open to the 132-square-foot kitchen. This space is a study in white, from the raised-panel cabinets to the quartz countertops to the glass subway tile backsplash. Other highlights include under-the-cabinet and recessed lighting, stainless steel appliances (the stove is gas), and a long breakfast counter/desk set before a bay window with backyard views.

A hallway off the kitchen connects to the garage and to the carpeted family room (182 square feet). It’s rectangular, as one would expect in a ranch, but it offers a rustic touch more common in farmhouse-style homes: exposed beams. The family room has another draw: a working wood-burning brick fireplace that has been painted white and crowned with a thick wood mantlepiece. A door opens to the backyard of the 0.41-acre lot, and louvered doors open to reveal a laundry closet with stacked appliances, cabinetry, a hanging rack, and open shelving.

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The dining area is open to the living room and the kitchen.

The kitchen boasts a long counter for doing homework, paying bills, and having breakfast.

The wood-burning fireplace is the focal point of the family room.

The laundry setup is stacked and in its own closet with cabinetry and a place to hang clothes.

The bedrooms are at the opposite end of the house, so feel free to turn up the sound on the movie you’re streaming.

Take the hallway between the living and dining areas. First up, on the right, is the main full bath, which offers a single vanity with a ceramic tile sink, ceramic tile flooring, and a white double slipper tub/shower combination with a ceramic tile backsplash that mimics marble.

The two secondary bedrooms, which range from 120 to 132 square feet, share this bath. Both have that luxury vinyl plank flooring. The larger bedroom comes with two windows, a double bifold closet, and a built-in nook that’s great for shoes, while the smaller has a single bifold closet and one window.

The primary suite is snuggled into the farthest reaches of the house, the left corner. It’s 150 square feet and has a pretty cylinder light fixture, carpeting, double bifold closets with a birch designer applique, and corner windows. The en suite bath offers a single vanity with a ceramic top. You’ll find ceramic tile on the floor and in the shower surround, but the shower pan is covered in marble.

The primary suite is carpeted.

The primary suite bath has a walk-in shower clad in ceramic tile and marble.

This room, the largest of the secondary bedrooms, has two windows.

The main bath has a deep double slipper tub/shower combination.

The rooms have a neutral color palette reminiscent of the Danish Hygge movement, which focuses on comfort and coziness.

There’s a patio off the family room.

The garage has one bay, but is long.

The backyard has two sheds, and there’s a rope swing out front.

The finished shed is a mix of industrial and rustic styles.

The property comes with two sheds: one for storage and a “luxury” one that’s finished with lights and flooring. There’s a rope swing in the front yard and a patio out back.

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The home is heated with gas (hot water baseboard) and has window air-conditioning units.

Paul Campano of Keller Williams Realty Boston Northwest is the listing agent.

Follow John R. Ellement on X @JREbosglobe. Send listings to [email protected]. Please note: We do not feature unfurnished homes unless they are new-builds or gut renovations and will not respond to submissions we won’t pursue.

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