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House Hunt
Each week we showcase area homes for sale that are worth looking at — or strolling through.
Despite this column's addressing houses primarily, it sometimes must focus on what is outside those homes.
Take, for example, 521 Westover Drive. This four-bedroom, 3½-bath, two-story edifice sits atop a hill in the Haynes Manor neighborhood. Impressive pines shade the extensive lawn out front, and out back is a stone patio framed by greenery including ferns, hydrangeas, and further pinetrees.
Inside, in addition to the aforementioned bed and bath array, is a kitchen with several noteworthy design flourishes: a low bookcase (my own cookbooks hide in a cabinet above the stove, which is no place for things made of paper), a plumbed center island, a hideaway dishwasher and a warming drawer.
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On 2518 W. Wesley Road's 6-acre lot are two ponds that include lily pads and other aquatic flora. Two walls of 2518's living room are glass, and they offer a downhill view of the water. For folk who prefer that bodies of water at their premises be chlorinated, the house also has a swimming pool.
The 1955 structure, redone by architect Henry Jova, also received a recent sprucing up by interior designer Stan Topol that included walnut flooring, a new kitchen, and a new bathroom.