921 Pembridge Crescent - SOLD
The Essentials
A very smart and tastefully done three-bedroom, two-and-a-half bath backsplit on a good, quiet west end street, close to schools, shopping, and parks. A mix of sunlight and good decisions.
The Bigger Picture
Heading west along Taylor-Kidd from all the shops along Gardiners Rd, you can pretty quickly hang a left and work along the leafy, well-established length of Pembridge Crescent. It’s pretty here. The trees are pushing fifty years old and offer up a towering, dappled sort of shade. At number 921, they’ve added a pair of apple trees, and a pear. Which means that down the road somewhere you’re making your own pies.
It’s a mighty fine and freshly remodeled kitchen where you’ll do that work, a mix of stainless steel and streaming sunlight, with a shimmering sort of chandelier over the island. The room has been opened up to the main living area in a very twenty-first century sort of way, so that no one is shut off from anyone else. It’s a home of distant horizons and unobstructed sightlines.
The flooring is just a couple of years old, and lot of the windows too, along with the furnace and the air conditioning. The rec room was well-finished too and sits really high out of the ground with more of that nearly oceanic light pouring in. There is a further den downstairs, and laundry, and a two-piece bathroom.
Up above there are three good bedrooms. The master has a four-piece ensuite. There is a continuity, a flow, that strikes me as rare. I mean, the house was certainly designed to offer a smart and seamless way to move from one space to another - that’s the whole point of not breaking things up with big flights of stairs. But too often over the years things tend to get broken up with a mish-mash of flooring, a clash of styles from different eras. There’s none of that here. The final effect of a design well-executed and tastefully updated is of water flowing over great sheets of rock.
This time of year I’d likely sit often behind the house on the private patio, gently turning a heavily iced gin this way and that. There might even be music easing out through the sliding doors, although even as I write those last few words I remember that the last time we were out there, a cardinal appeared up in the trees announcing itself, and a brilliant little embellishment on the scene is how that bird felt to me, a sort of checkmark of approval. As if everything was absolutely in its right place.
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The full iGuide tour is right here. The plan is to review any offers just after lunch on Sunday June 14. There will be no open house but showings will be scheduled for the next few days.
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