Cape Cod Times, Sunday, July 21, 2019
COTUIT — You have to experience this home for yourself to fully appreciate the unique layout. Enter through the main front door, or through the secondary door off to the side — the more “everyday” entrance. It brings you to an open, sun-filled room with hardwood floors and French doors out to a back deck. This space makes a perfect overflow room or even a lovely sitting room. The kitchen beckons from here — spacious and all white, accented by Brazilian-mined granite countertops. The kitchen opens to the dining room area, which in turn, flows into a sunken living room. This space, from kitchen to living room, where a lovely bay window looks out to the back patio, flows perfectly and is an idea family space: grownups in the kitchen and dining room, kids in the living room. It’s open, but it’s also large enough to afford some privacy.
A brick chimney in the living room encloses a gas fireplace, finishing off and anchoring the living room. The space, from here, spills into the foyer, which is where you’d arrive from the main front door into that elegant space that’s reserved for the more formal occasions. A balustrade staircase leads upstairs, and a balcony overlooks the foyer. The foyer space then flows past the living room toward the master suite, but beforehand, opens into a bonus room with another gas fireplace — it’s a double fireplace on the backside of the one in the living room. This room is an office, a TV room or a sitting room. It’s a perfect little getaway room, yet still open to the rest of the house.
In the first-floor master suite, walk right through the walk-in closet and into the bathroom — talk about a getaway — you can escape from the world outside with a hot bubble bath and martini in the fabulous white corner jet tub. Ahhh. The other two bedrooms, upstairs, are joined in the center by a Jack-and-Jill bathroom.
Winding Old Post Road is known to be one of Cotuit’s most preferred streets. Not only is it pretty, with pockets and enclaves of unique properties (this property also boasts beach and boat access just across the street), but it’s a short walk to Lowell Park, one of the Cape’s most iconic baseball fields, for Kettleers games in the summer. Or take an early morning stroll down to Cotuit Fresh Market (“The Coop”) for your coffee, or to Ropes Beach, where endless beautiful boats rest on the waters of Cotuit Bay.
