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Sale of the Week: Inman Park Victorian

April 22, 2010 in Real Estate by Lori Johnston | No comments

A dozen Inman Park residents are opening up their homes and gardens for the neighborhood’s 39th Annual Spring Festival and Tour of Homes on Friday through Sunday.

There’s a wonderful diversity of residences on the tour, from the renovated Jacobean Revival home built in 1899 for Ernest and Emily Woodruff  to The Grinnell Lofts.

Like other popular neighborhoods, when homes come on the market in Inman Park, the buyers often are existing residents, says Brian Bishop, an agent with Morris & Raper Intown.

His Inman Park listing at 197 Elizabeth St., priced for $999,999, caught our attention this week, with it slate roof, limestone foundation and wraparound porch that fits into the neighborhood setting.

The five-bedroom, 2 ½-bath home dates to 1910, but has only had three families as its residents, enjoying the home’s features such as stained glass in the foyer and custom built-in oak cabinets in the dining room.

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Sale of the Week: Digs in Druid Hills

April 16, 2010 in Real Estate by Lori Johnston | 1 comment

I spent months following Hammersmith’s renovations at Phil and Caroline Moise’s residence in Druid Hills as part of an AJC series in 2008 that followed the updates and additions to the kitchen and bathrooms in their 1919 home.

So I’m excited to see that their home is on this weekend’s Druid Hills Tour of Homes and Artist Market, running today through Sunday. Click here for more information, including ticket prices and locations, about the tour.

None of the homes on the tour – all along Oakdale Road – are for sale, but if you’re looking for a place to buy, you may want to check out others for sale on Oakdale or in Druid Hills.

The listings include this three-bedroom, three-bath brick home built in the 20s, at 992 Oakdale Road. It’s priced for $899,000 (dropped from originally more than $1 million) by Chuck Smith with Keller Williams Realty Metro Atlanta.

This home has a traditional layout, with formal living and dining rooms plus extras like a sunroom and a finished basement.

Some of the paint, wallpaper and carpet choices may not be your style, but for some, it could be the perfect chance to put your mark on a property in a desirable Atlanta neighborhood.

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Sale of the Week: West Paces Ferry Foreclosure

April 7, 2010 in Real Estate by Lori Johnston | No comments

The home at 205 West Paces Ferry Road, listed for $4.65 million, has three reasons why some folks may want to check it out.

1. It’s on this Sunday’s Buckhead in Bloom event, the Atlanta Preservation Center’s annual tour of homes. And it’s an appropriate spot, with the home on 2 acres and featuring a courtyard, garden, gazebo with granite countertops, an outdoor fireplace, and a saltwater pool and Jacuzzi. You can purchase tickets in advance at the Cathedral of St. Philip Book Store, Boxwoods Gardens and Gifts and The Swan Coach House, on at the home on the day of the tour (tickets are $40 for non-APC members, $30 for members).

2. It’s Philip Trammell Shutze original, built in 1936 and renovated and expanded to about 10,000 square feet four years ago by Harrison Design Associates. The front of the home was designed in the English Regency style; the back is the American Federal style.

3. It’s a bank-owned property, joining others of all price ranges in foreclosure on the market in Atlanta.

The seven-bedroom, 7 ½-bath home, known as The Thornton-Jones House, is listed by Russell A. Gray with Harry Norman, Realtors. There’s ample space for extras like a gym, steam, sauna and a massage room, which has one of the home’s eight fireplaces.

Don’t exert yourself too much this Sunday, though, and enjoy visiting a landmark that’s on the market.

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Sale of the Week: Inman Park Victorian

April 2, 2010 in Real Estate by Lori Johnston | 1 comment

This Victorian is the definition of charming to me, with its delicate details on the wraparound porch and Easter-egg yellow walls in the family room. The home at 80 Waddell St. in Inman Park is listed for $1.199 million by Pat Westrick with Re/Max Metro Atlanta Cityside.

Westrick shares these details: The Victorian reproduction, which has six bedrooms, four full and one half bath, was built in the late 1980s by a builder for her family. With that in mind, it has spots such as the family room for entertaining kids and friends. The bedrooms also have access to a bathroom, which is important as kids are growing up.

Also a plus: plenty of built-ins for storage of toys, books and other items you want out to display in the glass-front cases or hidden from sight in others.

You’ll also find an in-law suite in the basement, something to keep in mind if you’re the type of person who always enjoys having guests over on holiday weekends, spring breaks or throughout the year.

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Sale of the Week: Shutze Award Winner

March 26, 2010 in Real Estate by Lori Johnston | 1 comment

Photo by Blayne Beacham

Photo by Rod Collins

I’m kicking off my weekend enamored with this 16,000-square-foot Beaux Arts-style home at 981 Davis Drive N.W. listed for $12 million by Glennis Beacham with Beacham & Co.

The home has impressed others too, as the recipient of a 2008 Shutze Award (in the residential/single-family–over 10,000 square feet category) from the Institute of Classic Architecture and Classical America.

You’ll see these Beaux Arts-style features in the design by architect Historical Concepts, which also incorporated materials and details from the Second Italian Renaissance Revival:

  • Grand stair rising up from the central hall
  • Large rooms with high ceilings arranged in an “H” pattern to from front and rear courtyard
  • Entry porch with pediments supported by classical columns
  • Stone balustrades at the balconies
Photo by Blayne Beacham

Photo by Blayne Beacham

The seven-bedroom, seven full and three-half bath home was built from 2003 to 2006 on the site of the owners’ former ranch home.

Photo by Blayne Beacham

Photo by Blayne Beacham

Read more and see more photos on Blayne Beacham’s blog, This Photographer’s Life. It also has a two-bedroom guest house and stunning gardens and outdoor spaces – just in time to enjoy this spring.

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