(Photos By Gretchen Ertl for The Boston Globe)
Home of the Week
Victorian has old-fashioned warmth
(Photos By Gretchen Ertl for The Boston Globe)
NATICK - On the second floor, the closet in one of the bedrooms is so big that a sumo-sized green exercise ball looks like a cat’s toy. And that’s a theme for this taupe, maroon, and white Mansard Victorian with stratospheric ceilings - space and air and light. For example, the master bedroom, on the second floor, has four large, rectangular windows that look out over the spacious yard with mature bushes and trees.
The kitchen, the color of tomatoes and cream, has track lighting and a large island. Built around 1880, the living space on the first floor has the antique warmth that aged oak flooring brings. The front of the house has a living room, a sitting room - with large chandeliers hung beneath medallions - and a formal dining room brightened by floral patterns on the walls.
Over the years, the house has been a two-family with the third floor an apartment. The owners used the third floor space for a teen suite, but it is in need of a freshening. They renovated the attached carriage house - literally for the mother-in-law - into a one-bedroom unit with kitchen and a second-floor studio with high windows and large skylight. They kept the carriage house beams and splashed it with a light whitewash. The house has a fieldstone foundation. The basement has a sump pump and is wet in heavy rains.
Brokers Bill Janovitz and John Tse of Hammond Residential Real Estate in Lexington are planning an open house next Saturday and Sunday from 12:30 to 3 p.m.
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