Home of the week: 77-year-old restored Cape house full of surprises
This Cape has a family room with cathedral ceilings and a kitchen with Silestone counters and cherry cabinets.
Every house is constructed of steel, wood, glass, and such. Peter S. O’Neil, a state-licensed construction supervisor, took those components and transformed his 77-year-old Cape into a home with surprises around every corner.
Enter from the broad deck at the rear of the house, and the first view is of a long Silestone counter in the kitchen, the perfect spot to drop your briefcase and keys. The kitchen has ample storage behind cherry cabinets as well as stainless-steel appliances, including a two-drawer dishwasher and a double oven. From here, a short hallway leads to a full bath and a sizable laundry room.
The kitchen looks out to the combined dining area and living room, where O’Neil added wainscoting and rebuilt the wood-burning fireplace with a slate surround and hearth, topping it all with a poplar mantel. He kept the windows, however, 12-over-12 beauties that are original to the house and have rope-and-pulley sashes.
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See inside 75 Center Street in Pembroke:
The ceiling heights on the first floor are about 7 feet, and the flooring in this section of the house is original to the home, a refinished heart pine.
The home’s biggest surprise is waiting down a hallway off the kitchen: a 2004 addition that includes a family room with a cathedral ceiling, recessed lighting, richly dark Brazilian-cherry flooring, and multiple windows matching that 12-over-12-pane design. One window was put in just below the ceiling, boosting the natural light in the room.
Head to the front of the house and the foyer, where you can access a bedroom now used as an office. The space affords privacy and first-floor convenience in a quiet corner of the home. From the foyer, a stairway leads to the second floor and the other bedrooms. Here the ceiling height is a little more than 7 feet.
The master comes with two walk-in closets and an en-suite bath with a skylight. O’Neil removed a knee wall to make the bathroom more spacious. The second bedroom is only slightly smaller than the master and has two walk-in closets. The home was built one-third deeper than it is wide so the sloped ceilings typical in a Cape are in the closets.
The heating and hot water systems have been upgraded, and the unfinished basement runs the entire length of the house, which sits well back from the street (Route 14) on a 0.86-acre lot.
Claudia Climer of Coldwell Banker Residential Real Estate in Norwell will hold an open house on Sunday, Dec. 6, from noon to 2 p.m. As of press time, an offer with contingencies had been accepted on the property, but the seller was soliciting other bids.
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