The first thing I noticed about 1010 Wendy Lane was the water, a massive body visible even through the gate to the secluded property, located about 21 miles north of Preston Hollow. There are trees, topography, and 18-plus acres. There is a freshly re-circulated, three-quarters-of-an-acre pond fully stocked with fish — huge specimens, all for catch and release.
The feeling was very much of Martis Camp in Lake Tahoe, or Promotory in Utah.
“This is where you can have family gatherings, even small retreats,” says listing agent Karen Cuskey Hartman with Coldwell Banker DFW. “It’s like a mini family vacation every day. Imagine a special family event or celebration ending up with dinner at the Main Pond, the fish jumping, a complete kitchen right next to the dock for easy prep and serve.”
The current owners, says Cuskey, love their home because it’s so comfortable, private, and offers so many options for gatherings large or small.
The family that plays together: a kayak and paddleboard are tethered to the dock, and an outdoor fire pit can provide a warming fire during chillier climes. The fish are all pellet food trained, and are fed so regularly they know when it’s dinner time.
“The fish really let you know when they are hungry!” says Hartman. “Fishing in the stocked pond can become a treasured family ritual, along with sunset Happy Hours under the tree canopy.”
This is 1010 Wendy Lane, a home, an estate, a retreat unlike any other in North Texas. Located in the family-friendly, cozy community of Lucas, children attend the highly rated Lovejoy public schools. Lucas requires a minimum of one acre for home building. This property has 18.
The estate provides a myriad of activities for family and friends, and we don’t need to add that during any quarantine, boredom in this property would never be an issue.
Just call it Waterworld: there is the aforementioned pond, one of two on the property.
Field of Dreams, Times Two
There is also a regulation turf baseball field with adjustable mound and baselines, dugouts, and covered seating including space for lawn chairs and coolers. Enjoy semi-private family or school baseball games, even fund-raisers, right in your own expansive backyard. Plenty of room for additional guest casitas.
If baseball is not your game, walk over to the fenced-in sports court complete with regulation basketball court and batting cage. There are even custom coolers in the seats to keep beverages cool.
Perhaps you prefer the canopied putting green, surrounding yet another fire pit for colder weather with a heated stone floor surround … another great place for cocktails.
Or perhaps you’d just care to meander the expansive property along a crafted, stream-like “lazy river” that winds through the many trees and perfected landscaping: countless trees, shrubs, and flowers.
The Main House
Custom built by luxury home builder Mark Smith in 2015, the main home is complete on one floor, with a master wing (wait until you see it), a children’s wing, and a massive game room accessible from the deck of the 85,000-gallon resort-style pool.
The home is 8,434 square feet with five en suite bedrooms. A word about these en-suites: a whole new definition. We are talking showers the sizes of a Highland Park laundry room: one of the bedrooms could be an office.
There are three half baths, a four-car garage (three cars in one plus a separate single) climate-controlled and currently utilized as a gym. There is a media room with serving facilities, refrigerator, and a microwave. The game room has a half bath which opens to the exterior for the pool BUT the pool also has an air-conditioned cabana for your guest’s comfort.
In fact, in this home, you are never more than five steps away from a bathroom or 10 steps away from a kitchen of some sort.
The laundry room is, as you would expect, massive and holds two dryers plus an auxiliary refrigerator.
Immaculate Details Everywhere
There are so many extra touches of luxury, comfort, architectural integrity, engineering and technological prowess worked into this property, here is a sampling of some:
- Large, full wet bar with Sonic ice near the kitchen
- Open kitchen loaded with Wolf-grade appliances, dual dishwashers, dual sinks, Alderwood cabinetry
- A mudroom with large custom lockers large enough to hold boots and helmets.
- Natural hickory wood floors everywhere complete with Alder trim
- 5 Rheem HVAC units
- 85,000-gallon infinity swimming pool by Riverbend Pools
- Two hot tubs, one near the pool, one outside the master bedroom wing
- Motorized screens on the main back porch with outdoor kitchen
- Main porch heated in winter, cooled in summer
- Private well and two underground rainwater storage tanks, 6000 gallons each, for irrigation.
- Whole house back-up propane generator (kicks on 30 seconds after an outage)
- Control4 Smart Home: the property’s entire technology system can be controlled from the owner’s cell phone anywhere
- Two septic systems / completely cleaned July 2020
- Highspeed internet via Big Wave Wireless
- Multiple outdoor living options
- Jet air-cooled swimming cabana
While every inch of this home is tastefully amazing — that great collection of sport memorabilia art is for purchase, by the way — it’s really the exteriors that drive so much interest. Let’s start with the Upper Pond:
The water is stocked with Blue Catfish, Striper, Large Mouth Bass, and Blue Gill. They are ginormous: one Blue Catfish weighed in at 15 lbs.
The property is meticulously landscaped and seamlessly flows between outdoor spaces and indoors, often with meandering pathways.
A fully stocked line in the well-stocked pond also complete with outdoor kitchen and cabana –and paddleboards. Follow the water through the man-made waterfall as it flows through the property, around the firepit and putting green to the lower pond where it is re-circulated for efficiency. Wander over to your very own Field of Dreams, a turf baseball field with adjustable mound and baselines, dugouts, and covered seating even including space for lawn chairs and coolers.
Let your field day continue in the fenced-in sport courts complete with a full sized basketball court and a pitching cage and batting cage.
The home offers endless possibilities for safe, secure, nd activity filled living in a beautiful community. Listed with Karen Cuskey Hartman for DFW Coldwell Banker for $9.9 million
