Here is a brand spanking new home in Highland Park that speaks to what today’s buyers want: transitional features, soaring (but not too soaring) ceilings, expanses of glass windows, hardwoods, unique marbles, granites and stone. Stone, stone everywhere in fact.
Sometimes I think we love stone in our homes so much it’s like living in the age of the Flintstones! Or stoners…
3828 Mockingbird was built by Charter Lake Properties, a small but solid home building team headed by Edourad and Joulia Prous. As you know, I am bullish on high quality small builders like all our CandysDirt approved homebuilders — all people I would use to build my own home. We don’t have “Best Builders” here, a total marketing gimmick. We have fantastic builders and quite frankly, if they are not fantastic, we don’t want them on our blog. The Prouses live in the Park Cities where they have been building fine homes for years, for a host of happy homeowners. It is where they are raising two young sons. Edourad handles the building, and Joulia does all the interior design. Together they comprise a great team.
And they have done the impossible in this home. Listen up, folks: you get 1/5th of an acre, but Charter has designed the space so well the house has both the master and a guest room on the first floor. How did they manage this feat? Great design and planning.
The home, for example, has a rear entry and a circular drive in the front, rare for Highland Park.
In all, 3828 Mockingbird has four bedrooms and five full baths, plus one powder room.
The master bath is especially “O”-worthy, and that closet is so huge you could do what Kayne West told Kim Kardashian to do when she moved into her mother’s house (before little Saint was born): turn the closet into a nursery.
Best of all, when those kiddos get into their own little beds and rooms, and start going to school, they can walk to Armstrong Elementary. And thus begins the idyllic, all-American lifestyle of growing up in the Park Cities where the kids can bike everywhere, attend local neighborhood schools, and grow up with a strong sense of security. Is it the Bubble? You betcha. I want one made of steal around all of my loved ones, don’t you?
Listed with Frank Hayward at Virginia Cook for $2,150,000.
