Philadelphia | $1.4 Million
An 1856 home with 4 bedrooms and three and a half loos, on a 0.2-acre lot
This home is in Chestnut Hill, a neighborhood within the northwestern a part of town recognized for its stately houses and its purchasing and eating district centered round Germantown Avenue. Pastorius Park, a 16-acre inexperienced area that holds a summer season live performance sequence, and Wissahickon Valley Park, fashionable with hikers and equestrians, are close by.
The closest SEPTA station, Saint Martins, is a few five-minute stroll; from there, trains make the journey to Heart Metropolis in about 35 minutes. Driving to Wilmington, Del., or Trenton, N.J., takes about 45 minutes. The Jersey Shore is lower than two hours away.
Dimension: 3,394 sq. toes
Value per sq. foot: $412
Indoors: A stone wall separates this property from the road, and a wrought-iron gate opens to a path that results in the principle entrance.
Double doorways with diamond-paned glass open right into a lobby with a staircase to the second degree and hardwood flooring. To the appropriate is a front room with a fire, a white-painted, beamed ceiling and extra diamond-paned home windows looking onto the mature landscaping surrounding the home.
The hardwood flooring proceed right into a windowed eating room with extra white-painted ceiling beams. Off this area is an up to date kitchen with customized cabinetry, quartzite counters and a breakfast space with a built-in window seat beneath extra diamond-paned home windows. A powder room, a mudroom and a household room with a nook hearth are off the kitchen.
All 4 bedrooms are on the second flooring. The first bed room, to the appropriate of the stair touchdown, has home windows overlooking the encompassing bushes and an en suite toilet with a mixed tub and bathe. The second bed room, on the finish of the corridor, additionally has an en suite toilet. The third bed room, used as a house workplace, has built-in bookshelves; it shares a toilet that has a glass-walled bathe with the fourth bed room.
Outside area: {A partially} lined flagstone patio with ample area for eating is behind the home, off the mudroom. Just a few paces past are a swimming pool and a pool home with a half toilet, close to a garden shaded by mature bushes.
Taxes: $11,899 (estimated)
Contact: Kim Whetzel, Kurfiss Sotheby’s Worldwide Realty, 215-870-3138; sothebysrealty.com
Glendale, Calif. | $1.38 Million
A 1937 Colonial Revival home with three bedrooms and two loos, on a 0.2-acre lot
This home is close to the highest of a winding avenue near Verdugo Park, a inexperienced area with a playground and a skate park. Glendale Neighborhood Faculty and the Glendale Civic Auditorium are a few mile away. Griffith Park is 10 minutes away, as is the Americana at Model, a purchasing and eating complicated in central Glendale.
Driving to Pasadena or Burbank takes about quarter-hour. Downtown Los Angeles is about 20 minutes away.
Dimension: 2,379 sq. toes
Value per sq. foot: $580
Indoors: An exterior staircase leads from the road as much as a lined brick porch. Double doorways open right into a lobby with not too long ago refinished oak flooring.
The oak flooring proceed to the appropriate, right into a front room with a fire and street-facing home windows. Off the lounge is a eating room with painted wainscoting and entry to a lined terrace that capabilities as an out of doors sitting space, with area for a settee and desk. A breakfast space connects the eating room to a kitchen with grey cabinetry, white counters and entry to the terrace.
Two bedrooms are in a wing to the left of the lobby. The first bed room has a spacious walk-in closet. It shares a toilet that has its unique yellow-and-aqua tiling with the bed room subsequent door.
The third bed room, which has its personal toilet, is on the decrease degree, reached from a staircase within the lobby. Additionally on this degree is a den with white-painted ceiling beams and a fire.
Outside area: The terrace off the eating room and kitchen is surrounded by landscaping. From there, steps lead as much as a flat space with a fireplace pit on the prime of a hillside. The hooked up storage has two parking spots.
Taxes: $17,256 (estimated)
Contact: Jennifer Parker-Stanton and Jake Lazere, DPP Actual Property, 323-351-3278 or 949-370-4324; dppre.com
Falls Church, Va. | $1.395 Million
A 1955 home with 4 bedrooms and three loos, on a 0.4-acre lot
This home and its neighbors sit on land that builders purchased from the Alexandria Water Firm within the mid-Twentieth century. The houses, all in-built an identical midcentury-modern fashion, encompass Lake Barcroft, a well-liked spot for fishing and bird-watching, with 5 seashores reserved for using residents.
The property is 10 minutes from the East Falls Church station, a cease on the Orange and Silver strains; from there, trains make the journey to Washington in lower than half an hour.
Dimension: 3,021 sq. toes
Value per sq. foot: $462
Indoors: The home is about again from the road, behind a sloping inexperienced garden with a driveway on one aspect.
Extensive exterior stairs result in the yellow entrance door, which opens right into a dwelling and eating room up to date by earlier proprietor throughout an intensive renovation. This area has excessive ceilings, skylights, oak flooring and a wood-burning hearth with a easy white mantel.
Behind the sitting space is a eating space open to a kitchen with chrome steel home equipment and a big middle island with a quartz waterfall-style counter. A distinct segment used as a house workplace is off the eating space.
A hallway subsequent to the kitchen results in the 2 bedrooms on this degree. The first suite, on the far finish, has backyard-facing home windows and a toilet with terrazzo-tile flooring. The visitor room subsequent door has using a full toilet off the hallway.
A staircase with a glass railing leads from the lounge to the decrease degree, which has vinyl-plank flooring. A big household room with a fire is on this degree, together with two bedrooms that share a toilet with a mixed tub and bathe.
Outside area: From the again of the principle degree, a glass door opens to a patio. Close by, built-in bench seating surrounds a fireplace pit. The yard, a couple of steps up, is large enough to accommodate a swimming pool or a visitor cottage. The carport behind the driveway has one lined parking spot.
Taxes: $19,128 (estimated) and a $34 month-to-month home-owner affiliation charge
Contact: Sebastien Courret and Daniel Brewer, Sebastien Daniel Alliance, Compass, 202-386-6330; compass.com
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