Romantic European-style Estate emulates the patina of an 18th century French Country cottage. Overlooks 18th green and clubhouse of the TPC Golf Course.

Our home building has focused on custom client-built homes and most recently have centered around authentic designs and features found in \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"Old-European\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\" architecture. This home is unlike so many other homes because it is built with many different ideas and materials that try to replicate authentic features of a European home. Combined with modern home conveniences and energy saving construction we think this home offers a truly unique home purchase opportunity. We have outlined below many of the unusual features that make this home so special:

EXTERIOR:
The home was named \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"Giverney\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\" because somuch effort went into replicating the French cottage surroundigs and details exposed by Monet\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s village and surroundings of southern France.
The exterior building products which are applied to the wall surfaces include a hard coat stucco material by STO and a limestone material named \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"Jacque rock\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\" used as an accent to replicate the timeless beauty of weathered mortar wall surfaces that inevitably show their original stone underneath.
Roofs with steep pitches covered with slate, wood, or tile shingles were a key feature to the landscape of south France. The \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"Giverney\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\" house is built with 16/12 pitch roof slopes and we used an imitation slate roof manufactuered by Divinci roofs that replicate true features of slate and offer a 50 year warranty.
The front window shutters are large board & baton style made of heavy 2x6 cedar material with a raw umber glaze over crème color painted surface. Casement windows made by Pella Window company include lowE glass and Al clad on their exterior components for maintenance ease and care.
The front entrance includes large rough sawn posts and beams of Douglas Fir that include mortise and tendon installation. Two gas lanterns are mounted onto posts at the front entry.

INTERIOR:
When you first step through the front door we strived to create a surrounding that immediately conveys the vintage charm of the \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"old world\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\" homes. Leo describes it as creating a \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"dusting of the ages\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\". You will see textured walls which have been glazed to resemble peeled plaster walls. Ceiling treatments fill this home and the floors include terracotta tiles, limestone and wide plank hardwoods – all intended to truly represent the comfort and charm of these vintage homes.

Ceilings
Heart pine beams are distributed throughout the home. These reclaimed beams were planed and then hand-hewned. After they were installed in the house we added some distressing and old-age finishing techniques to make them look old again. These beams reside in the Foyer, Family room, Kitchen & Nook, Master bathroom and the 2nd floor Study Loft.
Additional ceiling treatments include the Kitchen where we installed 1x6 poplar boards that were shaped into well defined bead boards. We finished this ceiling by applying a bright solid yellow paint followed by a soft cremey glaze wiped with steel wool.
Also, the Breakfast nook ceiling is assembled with terracotta tiles. We used these tiles in the basement wine cellar and had some left over. So, we thought it would be neat to include the truly vintage description of color and texture into this space. These terracotta tiles where reclaimed from an 18th century chapel in France.
The dining room ceiling has a perimeter oak banding (about 2 ft wide) with a cloth wallpaper inlay.
We applied a basket weave to the ceiling stairway to the wine cellar and glazed the basket with a golden oak stain.


The kitchen sink area includes a large window bay in front of the fire clay farm house sink. This area was designed to allow space for plants/flowers and again capture the fairway view.

Hardwood floors are wide plank (8-inch) white oak T&g boards and surface applied cut nails.

Interior doors are solid core and the first floor doors include applied moulding detail. Other special doors include:
- walnut doors to the first floor study with a custom lead/stain glass with an applied cresting to the upper panels,
- knotty alder doors to the wine cellar with custom lead glass inserts and wrought iron,
- “hidden” antique mirror door to the first floor powder room. Faux painted moulding surround this door to look like limestone.
- custom painted bi-hinge doors to master bedroom by Robert Dion

Stairways include oak treads but the risers are real terracotta tile to the wine cellar and faux-painted main stair risers. Railings are all custom forged wrought iron that are hammered and painted with a bronze burnt umber finish.

Technology and Other Special Features:

We applied a spray foam insulation package to the full house envelope which effectively makes it like an insulated thermos. This insulation runs from the sealed crawl space area though the exterior walls and the roof rafters which completely encloses the heated and unheated 3rd floor space. This creates less strain and more efficiency on the Hvac equipment. Heating bills from PSNC have averaged $70 per month. This home has proven to offer tremendeous energy savings for 6,000 sf of heated space.

Two flat screen TV,s are installed on the 2nd floor. The entertainment room has a 50 inch plasma which is connected to surround sound theater speaker and component equipment and the exercise/utility room has a 42 inch plasma with a DVD component.

Whole house sound is installed on the 1st floor and includes speakers and volume controls.

The breakfast nook space includes a built-in banquet with custom made seating and back fabric by Leo and then a wall of window space looking out onto the 18th fairway. The nook exterior structure show exposed rafters with tonque and groove decking boards, a common feature of southern France.

Back to the Kitchen - of course we installed very nice appliances (Thermadore pro-range, refreigerator, Miele Master-chef, Bosch dishwasher) and continued to emphasize the beauty of naturals materials found in these \\\\\\\"old world\\\\\\\" homes by including countetops of \\\\\\\"weathered\\\\\\\" zinc and copper with nail head counter edge details. They make for wonderful cooking prep surfaces. The center island countertop also includes a wood chopping block and “Jerusalem” limestone at the sit-in bar.

Many other details which include the cabinetry, lighting and plumbing fixtures, copper tub, and door hardware all work together to create the inviting and comfortable atmosphere which set this home apart.