16 CHERRY STREET - SOLD

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The Essentials

A charming and spacious three bedroom detached home in downtown Kingston’s Fruit Belt neighbourhood, full of splendid character and good renovations.

The Bigger Picture

It’s an ordinary opening sentence, it seems to me, that one up above, for a special sort of house, one of my very favourites. I will have to do better in future (or I’ll have rewritten the whole bit by lunch; I know my habits).

There is a full-width front porch that has been incorporated into the house and if I had a room like that to think in, if I set at a nice teak desk before the big window, I’d maybe write something that lived up to the house. I’d put a shelf of favourite books against the far wall, that’s another thing I know, and I’d pull pull a novel free now and again, make a lazy stretch for it without actually getting to my feet. I might just open up whatever I’d chosen and watch the light play over its white pages. I’d hang out, in other words, take it all in, revel in where I’d landed.

I can see myself living here, is what I’m getting at, and I think if you book a showing you might well feel the same way. Because it’s that sort of house. There are formal living and dining rooms with gracious archways and maple floors. The walls are still smooth as can be, and the seller tells me the house was replastered at some point, which rings true and explains things, and undoubtedly helps with the heating costs too.

There is a sort of space-age eat-in kitchen at the back, all Stanley Kubrick and white curves, with expansive views over the pretty little garden. The bedrooms are all a good size and the one at the front of the house undoubtedly used to be a pair.

There is nothing I know of to be done here, not a thing, save I suppose patting yourself on the back for choosing such a splendid spot to put down roots, a short walk from Friendship and McBurney Parks, as well as the university and the water, all the shops and restaurants.

I’d be surprised if a better house than this one is listed this season, is how I’ll end this, if this is the area you want to live in, which of course it is.