Estate-like privacy and location without the estate maintenance. Secluded, light-filled home with high ceilings, 45 ft great room, skylights, floor-to-ceiling French doors. Built around a courtyard. 3 bd, 3.5 ba, 3 FP, garage. See private remarks re landscape easement. Can be bought w/ 1948 Tollis, MLS # 12-152.Before the onset of trophy mansions, the quintessential Montecito estate was a summer home amidst spectacular gardens.The classic front façade of this home has a prominent portico with spacious sunlit ocean-view patios on either side beckoning one to tea time in the garden. A large circular lily pond with fountain is centered directly below the home and surrounded by 2 acres of English tea roses and unique specimen plants.Clipped Italian cypress repeat the arched windows inside the home creating a stately border around the Giverny-like lily pond with fountain. Around every corner one may find an atelier, trellis, or arbor draped with flowers.A true summer cottage, this home embraces the light all around. In accordance with its Palladian roots, the interior floor plan is built around a large central room surrounded by modular suites of rooms. A centrally located great room serves as both the living and dining room with a fireplace separating it from the rear sun porch. All on one level, this home is built with sun porches, sweeping porticos and patios on three sides. Beyond the pillared entry, the grand foyer frames stunningly lush garden vignettes and ocean views through floor to ceiling arched windows the entire length of the house. Airy 10+ foot high ceilings with 18 skylights fill the home with light.Two en suite bedrooms open to a fabulous sun porch facing the reflective lap pool inviting one to explore the upper gardens filled with tea roses, cypresses, a gazebo and hidden pergolas. Each bedroom is a discreet suite opening to sun patios or the outdoors.The heart of the home is the magnificent sun room – better than being outside, there are floor to ceiling windows on all sides and eight skylights. A room with many views, it is hard to tear oneself away from the serenity and beauty. The main house offers a lovely lap pool framed by cypresses and roses.There are two additional bedrooms each with its own bath on the other side of the home – one of which was converted to exterior access only but could be remodeled to convert the space back into the main house. There is considerable square footage on this side of the house to be reworked into a more modern plan.
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