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Specifications
- Sq. Ft.: 2,494
- Bedrooms: 4
- Bathrooms: 3.5
Floor Plan
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The main floor shows an open great room and dinette flowing toward the kitchen, with a formal living room and dining room flanking the entry. A coffee bar, pantry, and patio access add practical convenience.
Floor Plan
Upper level holds four bedrooms, two full baths, a laundry area, and an open stairwell with a 20’9″ ceiling below.
Floor Plan
The basement level shows two bedrooms, a family room, a full bath, a staircase, and a mechanical/storage room tucked into one corner.
Olive Siding and White Garage Doors Give This Colonial Side Elevation Real Curb Appeal
Attached two-car garage with diamond-pane windows connects cleanly to olive-green clapboard siding.
Ask Yourself: Could your garage doors do more visual work? Swapping flat panels for carriage-style doors with window inserts, like these, adds detail without requiring a full exterior overhaul. It’s one of the lowest-cost changes with the most noticeable payoff from the street.
Dark Stair Treads and Painted Risers Pull the Whole Entry Together
Walnut-stained treads contrast sharply against white painted risers, with recessed step lights built into each riser face. A brass wall sconce picks up the warm wood tones already moving through the space.
Built-In Step Lighting as a Functional Choice
Those recessed rectangular lights set into the stair risers aren’t decorative flourishes. They cast low-level illumination directly onto each tread, which matters on a staircase this steep. It’s a practical detail that works without requiring overhead lighting to be on at all.
Inside, the formal living room shows how the Victorian bones translate into everyday livability.
Symmetrical Sofas and a Gray Limestone Fireplace Anchor the Formal Living Room
Paired cream sofas face each other across a low iron coffee table, with brass sconce lighting framing a monochromatic floral painting above the mantel.
Warm Wood Uppers and a Brass Faucet Make This Kitchen Hard to Walk Past
Rift-cut wood cabinets in a honey-brown tone sit above crisp white lowers, with veined marble running wall-to-wall as the backsplash. That brass bridge faucet is the room’s focal point. Three barrel-back barstools at the island keep seating relaxed without competing with the cabinetry.
Material Matters: Marble backsplashes read differently depending on the slab’s veining direction. Installers who run vertical slabs behind a window create a natural frame, while horizontal runs tend to stretch a wall visually. Neither choice is wrong, but it’s worth deciding before tile cuts are made, since changing direction mid-install creates awkward seams.
Floral Wallpaper and an Arched Chandelier Make This Dining Room Feel Dressed Up
Roman shades trimmed in dark olive pick up the botanical wallpaper above the wainscoting. Cross-back chairs with upholstered seats keep things comfortable. Slim taper candles on the table do more than a centerpiece ever could.
History Corner: Victorian dining rooms were often the most formally decorated space in the house, reserved for guests and special occasions rather than daily family meals. Wainscoting, like the vertical-plank style seen here, was a practical choice too, since it protected plaster walls from chair backs during frequent entertaining.
Toile Art and Plaid Ottomans Keep This Primary Bedroom Grounded in Tradition
Two walnut nightstands flank a carved wood headboard, each topped with a ceramic table lamp. Roman shades edged in olive trim frame the windows without blocking light. At the foot of the bed, a pair of plaid ruffled ottomans adds texture and practicality. The toile artwork above ties every warm neutral together.
In The Details: Framed toile panels work well above headboards because their muted, engraved-style imagery adds visual weight without competing with bedding patterns. If you can’t find a panel large enough, a pair of matching prints mounted side by side reads almost the same from across the room.
Brushed Gold Hardware and Geometric Tile Make This Shower Worth Lingering In
Scalloped white wall tile and brass door pulls give this glass-enclosed shower a quietly formal character.
Scalloped white wall tile and brass door pulls give this glass-enclosed shower a quietly formal character.
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White clapboard exterior with arched upper windows and a bay tower sits above the first-floor plan. Inside, the layout runs from a 2-story entry through a great room, dinette, and kitchen across the back, with a formal living room and dining room flanking the entry. A coffee bar, pantry, and detached 22×22 garage round out the plan.
Why It Works: Victorian exteriors relied on vertical emphasis, and the arched windows on this facade do exactly that, drawing the eye upward rather than across. If you’re replicating this look, arched window trim is often more cost-effective than true arched glass, and from the street, it reads nearly the same.
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