485 Fieldstone Drive - SOLD
The Essentials
A renovated three-bedroom detached house in Kingstons east end with. walkout lower level, attached garage and backing onto terrific green space.
The Bigger Picture
Life is too damned complicated a lot of the time. I’m sure you feel it too. Just finding time to sit down with a newspaper feels like a Herculean task. A walk in the woods? Forget about it. And it shouldn’t be that way, should it? We have been derailed, is how it seems, left on the side of the road in a dew-wet ditch. I pine most days for simpler times and more straightforward pleasures.
It’s a glum observation, I suppose, and it dates me too, and is hardly the way to begin a pitch for a new listing. Except it has the ring of unvarnished truth to it. It feels honest to itself and there is some solace in that. The same - and I really don’t think this is too much of a stretch - might be said for 485 Fieldstone Drive. It is a good house. It has no secrets that we know of, and it won’t let you down. It is a bright harbour, a refuge, a getaway car for when you just might feel robbed by the last couple of years.
It is also a very pretty detached three-bedroom, two-and-a-half bath home backing onto luxuriant green space in Kingston’s east end. That’s the simplest way to describe the house, and perhaps it’s where I should have begun. It’s enough to draw the crowds. But it’s the wealth of impressive added details that distinguish this house, that draw it modestly from the velvet wings and into the golden spotlight.
Hardwood floors on the main floor that bounce the light off the freshly painted designer walls, for instance. You want music playing, or the windows open and birdsong filtering in. It is a joyous space. You want almost to clap when you come inside for the first time. A round of applause, then, for a house well-made, a job well-done.
Stainless steel appliances congregate in the smart oak kitchen, including a gas stove.
A walkout from the finished lower level, a basement which features windows large enough you don’t feel you’ve ever gone down stairs.
An attached single garage.
A mature maple on the front lawn for summer shade and privacy. And in that shade a lending library for your friends and neighbours to pause, read a better paragraph than any of these.
And behind the house, an elevated deck that looks over the green garden with with its raised vegetable beds and perfect lawns, sure, but also peers from there over the fence and into the near-endless woods.
The Gallery
