Fairhaven Cape capitalizes on its perch by the bay

Taxes $11,149 (2022)

There’s a signal indicating “Beach House’’ previously mentioned the fire in this property, but you’ll know this contemporary Cape overlooking Buzzards Bay is the true deal by the out of doors shower by itself — a necessity when a private beach is just seconds away.

The 16-calendar year-aged house on West Island has 3 stages: two higher flooring for living and a decrease stage with breakaway walls in scenario of flooding. A wide deck with a gazebo captures the ocean check out from this house, which shares the community with West Island State Reservation.

From the driveway, a wide stairway leads to the front door. Inside of, the style and design honors the home’s proximity to the ocean: pastel blue paint, white Nantucket bead board, and a lot of sliders and windows, such as a skylight in the lobby, that let the sunshine pour in.

To the left of the lobby is a 480-square-foot living room with a fuel fire flanked by seaside-white built-in shelving and cabinetry. And just to the ideal of the cabinetry is a white desk-like desk. But provided its site, the odds of operate basically remaining performed appear trim: Straight in entrance of the desk is a window with sights of Buzzards Bay, and to the suitable is a slider to the aforementioned deck.

The flooring in the main rooms on this degree is pine reclaimed from a Vermont barn, and the ceilings are dotted with recessed lights.

The living space shares an open up structure with the 243-square-foot kitchen area, wherever the granite counter is in the condition of a fishhook. The straight section runs alongside an exterior wall and includes an undermount sink underneath three extensive windows. The curved segment is a peninsula that seats 4.

A couple of methods from the sink is a lengthy, rectangular island with cabinetry, a small sink, a fridge, and a 4-burner fuel cooktop. Stainless steel appliances, like the principal fridge and stacked ovens, are on the exterior wall. This end of the kitchen area also offers a 124-sq.-foot eating spot, which is at present occupied by a white desk for 8 underneath a stunning Sputnik light fixture. This is a sumptuously sunny place subsequent to a slider to the deck.

Guiding rolling a few-paneled doorways with smoked glass is the first-flooring bed room, the place the barn wooden flooring, recessed lighting, and Nantucket bead board continue. In this article at the front of the property, sunshine is no stranger: There are 4 home windows in the 178-sq.-foot place.

The comprehensive tub for this flooring is at the finish of a short hallway off the kitchen area. 1st on the right, even so, is a laundry closet at the rear of a white roll-up doorway, and on the still left, there is a closet. The entire bathtub has a solitary vainness with a granite counter resting on blond wooden cabinetry. The flooring is ceramic tile, and the shower is an insert.

From the foyer, a extensive stairwell where nautical-like cable runs beneath wood handrails prospects to the best flooring, which retains the primary suite, 3rd bed room, and the ultimate whole bathtub.

The primary suite occupies about fifty percent this degree. The bed room place is 231 square toes and functions a cathedral ceiling, recessed lights, a ceiling enthusiast, two closets (one particular is a wander-in), a fuel fire, carpeting, and a window seat with a see of the bay.

Loosen up après seaside day in the en-suite bath’s jetted tub, a trace of a determine eight in its form. The bath also has a solitary vainness with a black granite counter that delivers a nice juxtaposition to the white cabinetry. The shower sits guiding apparent glass and boasts a white subway tile encompass, a inexperienced tile inlay, and a matching floor. The flooring in the relaxation of the rest room, on the other hand, is ceramic tile.

The 3rd bed room is 285 sq. toes and is at present outfitted with a pair of bunkbeds. There is carpeting underfoot, and a nook close to 1 of people beds houses a desk space. There is also a closet, a storage place, and a window seat with a watch of the bay.

The last bathtub arrives with a ceramic tile flooring, a shower insert, and a one vainness with a granite top rated and a white cupboard.

The decrease level has a two-car or truck garage and storage for kayaks and other water-connected devices.

The house, which sits on .72 of an acre, is getting sold entirely furnished.

Danielle Cyr-DeFrias of Howe Allen Realty in Fairhaven has the listing. As of push time an offer had been accepted on the assets.

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