Time for Some Easter House P: Happy, Happy Easter from CandysDirt.com!

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I cannot think of a better place for your Easter egg hunt than this lush lush LUSH backyard oasis snuggled away over at 4612 Watagua in Bluffview. Well maybe not snuggled: the home is actually on a ridge, has great topography and I felt like I was back in the hills of Napa! I know they say the Hill Country begis in Oak Cliff, but sometimes, when I’m in Bluffview, I think it starts right there. Built in 2000, this 7863 square foot home has gone through three owners all of who have added more, more and more to make it perfect. Great example: The Casita, built by current owners/sellers in 2007, which rests along the eastern edge of the site. It has a living area, powder bath plus fully appointed bath with double lavatory, IT’S OWN LAUNDRY FACILITY! How cool is that, guestst can do their own laundry or snack up in the efficiency kitchen. Even better: a Juliette balcony overlooks the front grounds while the dining area looks over a terraced outdoor banquette and the croquet lawn. I am going to ask if I can buy The Casita and just live there!

We begin with the pool and flowers all around the deck because that is where we want to be right now, Mimosa in hand and someone serving more.

The home was built in 2000,  and boasts one of the most beautiful landscapes designed  by the owner and Harold Weidner. And who might that owner be? Finance baby, finance. You will spend as much time as possible outdoors here, which is the point. Inside, you’ve got five bedrooms,  four full and two half baths, and everything. EVERYTHING: a central foyer leads to the Great Room, which opens to the South Portico and the gardens, also a focal viewpoint from the dining room and family/media room. Check out the richly panelled library, with real bookcases (and books!) adjacent to the foyer. The kitchen is on high name brand appliance steroids: Thermador professional six top gas range with oven, Thermador electric and micowave ovens, SubZero full refrigerator & freezer, gleaming stainless sink, twin Bosch dishwashers, prep island with two Sub Zero refrigerator drawers and vegetable sink. There is a walk in pantry,  breakfast room and even the kitchen has it’s own half-bath.

The master is upstairs with a balcony overlooking the magnificent almost 1.3 acre manicured grounds, and the spa bath is outrageous.  Baths are beautifully appointed and closets are generously scaled. Up here are also four more bedrooms, two with en suite baths, two share a bath (shh, don’t tell!). Now here is a really great addition: not only is the oversized laundry room upstairs here, so is The Wrapping Room! You would think that hauling said wrapped gifts downstairs and out to the five-car garage might be your exercise for the day, particularly if the gift you haul is say, a stratolounger? But fear not: whoever lives in this house can just meander down to an exercise room and television nook down a secondary staircase.

Outdoors is of course the overachiever’s gardens, the Portico with outdoor fireplace, a Grotto with yet another outdoor fireplace and flowers, flowers everywhere! Touring this house is worth it for the sweet scents alone. I had been at the Far Niente Winery in Oakville, CA just a week ago and marvelled at the gardens created by the owner of Far Niente, Gil Nickel, who hailed from Oklahoma and whose family was in the nursery business. When I got to 4612 Watauga, I really thought I had returned and was expecting a glass of Dolce. Asking $5,750,000. The home sold for $3,550,000 in 2005 prior to many additions and upgrades. It was listed for $6,395,000 last year, so this is actually an amazing price because not one petal or vineyard could be replicated for $700 a square foot.

Far Niente Winery Oakville, CA

There I go again: this home is just the wine country of Napa in Dallas!

 

Candy Evans, founder and publisher of CandysDirt.com, is one of the nation’s leading real estate reporters.

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  1. Alex Roostaei on April 8, 2012 at 8:34 am

    this house is beautiful! as soon as I win the lotto….my first buy

  2. Alex Roostaei on April 8, 2012 at 8:34 am

    this house is beautiful! as soon as I win the lotto….my first buy

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