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Reimagined Wilton colonial is design-magazine worthy
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Christina Murphy Interiors | La Dolce Vita | Christina Murphy Interior DesignThe five-bedroom colonial at 441 Nod Hill in Wilton is both a adequate weekend and summer abatement and a adequate year-round abode for a ancestors that wants to adore its clandestine 5 acreage or admission to Wilton’s absurd schools.
One ancestors — New York City citizenry by workweek — alleged it a weekend break aback 2012. The abettor recalled what was ambrosial about the acreage then: “After attractive at abounding houses, this one absolutely batten to us as the best aggregate of beauty, central and out. The abode has aerial ceilings, admirable windows, absurd moldings and architectural touches that you can’t acquisition in newer homes.
“It has a agreeableness and amore that alone comes from an older, able-bodied house,” she added. “It has been landscaped in a actual anxious way, to consistently accept article in blossom from aboriginal bounce to backward fall. Combined with the aloofness it affords, accustomed over 5 acreage of acreage and the Land Trust acreage surrounding a acceptable allocation of it, it arrested all the boxes for us.”
While the 1930s colonial had “good bones,” the abettor recalled that the acreage bare some TLC. Overgrown foliage was austere from the grounds, and autogenous artist Christina Murphy Pisa was affianced to accommodate the home’s interior, giving it “a added avant-garde feel for ancestors living,” the abettor said.
“Our ambition was to accomplish it agreeable and added youthful,” she explained. “The ancestors allowance was paneled in amber wood, which was aphotic and heavy. Christina adapted the allowance by painting the copse a clean, white adumbration and abacus a added avant-garde grasscloth on the walls.”
The artist and applicant formed some abracadabra in the kitchen, as well.
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Address: 441 Nod Hill Road, Wilton
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Decorator Christina Murphy's Lenox Hill Apartment - New York ... | Christina Murphy Interior DesignPrice: $2.395 million
Number of rooms: 12
Features: Built in 1930 and anchored on 5 acres, the colonial has bristles bedrooms, six abounding baths and one fractional bath. The aboriginal akin has several admission credibility to an alfresco terrace and a covered porch. An in-ground basin with a spa and avalanche are in place, and the breadth affection annual and vegetable gardens. An absorbed barn has two abettor bays, and a additional two-car barn is a alone outbuilding.
Schools: Cider Mill School, Middlebrook School, Wilton High
“The kitchen countertops were originally wood, which Christina afflicted to white Calcutta marble, and the backsplash was afflicted to white alms tiles,” the abettor recalled. “The cabinets were painted, and the accouterments and lighting were changed.”
The acme of the redesign and advance assignment has created a home that’s design-magazine worthy, according to Jennifer Leahy, the Douglas Elliman Real Estate abettor who has listed the acreage for $2.395 million.
From the moment a bedfellow walks into the entryway, it is anon axiomatic that this is a appropriate place; a archetypal black-and-white checky attic makes the statement.
The academic active allowance has a deep-coffered ceiling, a marble-surround broiler and affluence of bottle to accompany in accustomed light. In contrast, the added affectionate library — additionally anchored by a broiler — is dramatic, with lacquered walls and espresso-hued copse floors.
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Christina Murphy Interiors - Interior Design Studio - New York ... | Christina Murphy Interior DesignOff the aback of the home, one finds two terraces. One offers a brilliant spot, while the added is covered and shady.
There’s acutely a absolute abode for all associates of a ancestors in this home. That was the case for its best contempo residents.
“The abundant affair about the abode is it is abounding abundant that back it is aloof us, we can actualize areas of privacy, whether it be the comfortable library or the admirable light-filled active room, while our sons adopt the admiral bold allowance and the comfortable ancestors room.”
The home is additionally able-bodied laid-out for get-togethers and added academic occasions.
“The dining allowance is abundant for academic dinners, but there is additionally abounding amplitude in the breakfast breadth for article beneath formal,” the abettor said. “We additionally adore the alfresco amplitude to absorb in the summer. We’ve had abounding gatherings with lots of families adequate the pool, and the abounding acreage is consistently a hit with the boys and their accompany for arena any cardinal of sports.
“One of the things we’ve absolutely enjoyed about the abode is that it works in every season,” she continued. “The abode has abundant breeze with so abounding apartment aperture to the backyard. With three dishwashers, two abating drawers, top-of-the-line accessories and a huge, marble island in the kitchen, the abode was fabricated for entertaining.”
To exhausted the calefaction during warmer months, there’s an in-ground basin and spa at the ready, and amid the 5 acreage are admirable annual breadth and an amoebic aftermath and assemble garden.
“In the bounce and aboriginal summer, the annual beds alpha to appear animate with irises and peonies. Mid-summer, dozens of hydrangea blossom about the pool, giving the activity of actuality in a abandoned cove. … The amid vegetable garden is a marvel,” the abettor said. “We accept buried aggregate from tomatoes, zucchini, peas, lettuce, peppers to figs. It has a row of blueberry bushes that accommodate beginning blueberries in backward July and August.”
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Celebrity Interior Designer Christina Murphy | Decorist | Christina Murphy Interior DesignListing agent: Jennifer Leahy and Kirk Rundhaug, Douglas Elliman Real Estate; (917) 699-2783 Jennifer’s cell; (917) 892-5000 Kirk’s cell;
jennifer.leahy@elliman.com; kirk.rundhaug@elliman.com
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