In Spring House Hunt’s Home of the Week, birdseye maple adds to sleek style
The home, priced at $2,799,000, has five bedrooms, six full baths, and two half baths. See inside more luxury properties at realestate.boston.com.
1 Wits End, Weston
$2,799,000
Style: Contemporary
Year built: 1984/addition 1988
Square feet: 7,301
Bedrooms: 5
Baths: 6 full/2 half
Sewer/water: Private/public
Taxes: $32,385 (2018)
The glossary of the “Wood Handbook’’ describes birdseye maple as a wood with the “fibers indented and otherwise contorted to form few to many small circular or elliptical figures remotely resembling birds’ eyes.’’
The authors of that US government tome — the word applies, trust me — should have included the words “beautiful,’’ “dazzling,’’ and “elegant.’’
That description applies to this contemporary with modern, castle-like towers, steel doors, gray and polished-black floors, and custom birdseye maple cabinetry.
A snaking driveway ends in a circle at the front door of the earth-tone home. The entrance is positioned between two turrets just like a castle gateway. The door is steel.
On the left side of the foyer and two steps down is a living room with two arresting elements: mirror-like stainless steel framing the wood-burning fireplace and curved doors of birdseye maple that hide a wet bar.
From here and two steps up is a smaller room, sized nicely for playing cards and built upon a cream-colored leather floor.
Across the foyer and behind a sliding glass door is the dining room, where the wall covering has a silver-leaf pattern and cove lighting in multiple colors lines the ceiling. Counterpoint to all this modernity is a built-in china cabinet of birdseye maple. The flooring is dark-stained oak in a herringbone pattern. A slider leads to the wraparound deck, and a swinging door opens to the kitchen.
The kitchen is a collection of white walls, white-lacquered cabinets, skylights, and light-colored granite, including an island with a black electric cooktop and a half-moon overhang with seating for three.
Down the hall is one fine place to entertain: a family room where the floor is black granite and the walls are white oak gouged with decorative slashes. Where the walls and ceiling meet, a wide layer of silver leaf flickers alongside thin bands of ambient lighting. The wood-burning fireplace has a surround of light and black granite and stainless steel. Next to it is a full wet bar with a leather elbow rest. Windows look out over the expansive backyard.
A breakfast room, pantry, two half baths, and a laundry room complete the first floor.
From the foyer, a curving carpeted and stone stairway with underlighting and a skylight leads to the second floor.
In the 352-square-foot master bedroom, a birdseye maple built-in covers a wall, offering the perfect perch for the bed. On either side are framed insets with lights for displaying artwork, and flanking the bed are wide and deep three-drawer night stands. Above the bed is lighted shelving.
Opposite the bed is more birdseye maple cabinetry with a deep inset for a TV sandwiched between drawers. The room also has a wood-burning fireplace with a stainless-steel and glass surround. The flooring is carpet.
A short hallway leads to a master bath with curving walls that can only be described as dazzling: The floors and walls are clad in marble, and three steps lead to a whirlpool bath surrounded by beveled, mirrored glass that both reflects and distorts. The bathroom also offers a sauna, separate shower, water closet, and a circular skylight. There is a double vanity with a marble counter, and the cabinets are clad in mirrored glass.
From the bedroom, another hallway connects to a dressing room with birdseye maple cabinetry. The master suite also has two walk-in closets.
Back out on the second floor’s main hallway, there is an office with burgundy upholstered walls, lacquered built-in wood shelving, and lots of natural light from two windows.
A sky bridge connects to a section of the house that offers three bedrooms with en-suite baths on the second floor. The baths have slate floors and single vanities. One has no tub, only a shower. The third floor houses the fifth bedroom and a full bath.
There are recessed lights throughout the home. The finished basement adds nearly 1,959 square feet of living space not included in the main tally, has a full bath, and is finished with rubber flooring.
On the 2.74-acre lot, there’s an in-ground pool shaped like an oven mitt cinched at the wrist and a cabana.
Joni Shore and Jon S. Shore of Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage in Wellesley are the listing agents.
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