589 Millwood Drive - $420,000
The Essentials
A stylish three-bedroom west-end, red-brick, end-unit townhouse with a finished basement. Any offers will be reviewed Thursday April 15 at 3.30 pm.
The Bigger Picture
It is your first visit to the house. You push lightly through the front door and remove your shoes. While you hang up your jacket — someone has left a wooden hanger free for you in the closet — you notice in the distance a gas fireplace set into a white wall. Everything is familiar and yet you feel you might be still dreaming. There is flame rising behind the fireplace glass and you strain to hear it. In the silence that follows, you realise that you can think of no better welcome. This fire at the horizon is both a comfort and a reassurance: a lighthouse spied across dark waters after long trials at sea.
Rather more plainly, it’s just so damn nice to arrive home and see an immaculate house stretching out before you. A warm sunken living room waiting, and pretty spaces left and right before you get there. A mature pine tree visible in the garden beyond the windows. Your art on the walls. A clock on the wall. Food in the fridge. A bowl of lemons held fast in a light’s tractor beam. And, now that you think of it, the whisper of kids on another floor conspiring together, or sunk deep into books There it is again: the turn of another page.
Home in this case is a three-bedroom, two-and-a-half-bath end-unit townhouse in Auden Park in Kingston’s west end. A red-brick townhouse. With an attached garage. And a finished basement. Unmarked hardwood in the living and dining rooms. A main bedroom that stretches across the full width of the house and has its own 4-piece ensuite bathroom. A modern kitchen with stainless steel appliances. A fresh deck and patio behind the house. A picture-perfect example of how good these places can be.
Auden Park is close to Lemoine Point and the lake, and also to the Gardiners Road big box stores and the mall, the cinemas. You’re downtown in under fifteen minutes, and if it’s your thing you’re at the golf course in five, tops. You pick your own routines here, is what I’m saying. And you don’t break the bank, which in these trying times is really saying something.
The full iGuide is here. And the Realtor.ca highlights is here.
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