Inwood Mortgage Home of the Week: Good Breeding, Great Bones Make This Preston Hollow Park Lane Tudor a Classic

Our house of the week for Inwood Mortgage typifies what a little clean-lined interior design can do for a 14 year old home: make it look brand new! Let’s face it: styles change every few years, but 14 years is almost light years when it comes to design. What I love about 6239 Park Lane is the timelessness of the original structure, the great bones, and the basic room flow that makes it adaptable to just about any decor or taste.

Cindy Musgrove with Blue Sky Living.com (see ad to the right, refresh if you do not) went in and made the home so fresh and clean, you might think it was built last year! It helps that the 1999 vintage has been so well taken care of and loved by it’s owners. There are 7207 square feet, five bedrooms, five full and one half baths. There is a large pool and gorgeous outdoor patio. Plus it’s located on that dignified stretch of Park Lane east of Preston with the impressive lawn setbacks and speedbumps, so you never have to worry about traffic here.

Location? A-plus!

Walk in to a generous foyer with traditional curved staircase, custom inlaid hardwoods of walnut and oak in the entry, and oak flooring everywhere. Intimate living room on your right, dining on your left connected to a long Butler’s pantry and the loaded up kitchen. Straight ahead is the family room with beautiful beams, a Juliet balcony from the top hallway, and light everywhere. There is a nice bar nook off the family room. The pool is gorgeous and fills in the view of the backyard. By the way, this lot is .43 of an acre, measures 190 feet deep by 100 wide, almost a half acre, which gives you enough space for pets or tinkering with a veggie garden plus the pool and spa.

Like most of the homes in Preston Hollow, the master is on the first floor with a huge master spa bath (I love the view of the pool from the jetted tub) , and enormous closet with built-ins including a cool 3-way, “check my big butt”mirror. There is an adjacent office/sitting room/nursery right off the master. I love this concept sooo much better than having a “sitting area” in the master. I mean really, who actually sits in the master? The action in that room doesn’t require chairs — well, most of the time! If you are a gazillionaire, you are probably off jetting between homes and will not ever need to “sit in the master”.  So I am totally over the master sitting area. I am very much on board with this extra space that can be adapted to your lifestyle, and this is a great example of what thoughtful architectural design can do to a home even when she hits her teen years.

People, I implore you: do NOT skimp on architectural design! Or quality home builders!

Four bedrooms are upstairs, each with great baths, plus a media room. The gigantic laundry room is downstairs located near the back stairs. The three-car garage is split into a two-car unit and a single stall. The home was built with insulated wood glass windows on a pier and beam foundation so go ahead, remodel away. I don’t think you will really need to, however.

Listed with my beautiful friend Pam Brannon at Briggs Freeman Sothebys for $2,185,000. And I am just in love! Trot yourself over to Inwood Mortgage to pre-qualify for this puppy… before it gets snatched up!