Inwood Mortgage Home of the Week: A Home Fit for Lots & Lots of Holiday Company

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Meadowood Inwood HOTW I have a thing about Old Preston Hollow, particularly come the holidays. Here’s the thing about 4617 Meadwood and this precious nook of Dallas: every house is perfect, every tree is gnarly and romantic. If older, the home is well kept up and maintained better than San Simeon. If newer, it’s to-die for, of stucco or stone,  and large enough to hold your entire family at Christmas plus any entourage. Let’s face it: during the holidays, we shelve any desires to downsize. We want space, we want square footage! This 10,815 square foot home home was built in 2005 on 2 choice acres. It features a slate roof, stone exterior and circular driveway. There are 5 bedrooms with suites, 5 full and 3 half bathrooms, 4 wood-burning fireplaces, wood floors and crown molding throughout, two staircases, of course a formal living room, a formal dining room with butler’s pantry, gourmet kitchen, breakfast room, house manager’s office, wood paneled family room with built-in shelves, and a library with the most gorgeous hardwoods I have seen. There is a  recreation room on the lower level, covered terrace, 3-car garage, swimming pool, formal gardens and more.Meadowood Foyer Meadowood Formal Living Meadowood Living Meadowood Dining Meadowood Kitchen Meadowood Breakfast The gourmet kitchen and appliances are a Kent Rathburn dream with two Wolf ovens, drawers and shelves. A magnificent armoire between the two bookshelves against the back wall holds the double Sub-Zero refrigerator. We don’t want to see the fridge, no. Nearby are the walk-in pantry, house manager’s office and utility room. Adjacent to the kitchen is the family room with walls of wood paneling and shelves. The home is large, but it can get larger. When more room is needed for entertaining, the metal-and-glass French doors along the entry hallway and in the family room are easily opened to include the covered-back terrace and the palatial grounds with a pool. Meadowood Master Meadowood Master Bath Meadowood Office Meadowood Gameroom Meadowood Patio Believe me, this is priceless!

The master suite is on the first floor with a huge master spa bath, wall coverings that beg to be touched, and is adjacent to his-and-hers dressing rooms with window seats, cabinets, shelves and rods from the floor to the ceiling: be sure to write that genuine Zebra rug into the contract! I LOVE the library, a sheer showcase with its wood wainscot and black leather, windows that open to the grounds and a walk-in wet bar. Stanley Marcus would have literally drooled to have this.

In addition to the four guest suites — yes, every bedroom is a suite — and game room overlooking the main entrance on the second level, there is a stunning lower level that includes the booze bar and snack bars. Even the snacks are good: every inch of this house is utter, sheer perfection. Erin Mathews has it listed at $7,995,000. Sounds frightfully overwhelming, but the home has been reduced from a high of $8,495,000. This is the house of Kristen and John P. Mullen, he of investment banking moolah, Kristen the talented wife who did all the decorating herself? Interiors were featured on the popular blog, Cote de Texas. Meadowood was first listed in February of 2012 at the heart-attack-inducing $8,495,000 price tag. I mean, you are getting 1.5 acres and more than 10,000 square feet. When it comes to stuffing the house, it’s like stuffing the turkey: the more space, the fluffier the outcome. I know the good folks at Inwood Mortgage would love to stuff your bank account with the funds necessary to buy this palace: buy it, bow it, and voila be done with shopping!

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

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