Talk About a “Great Room,” This Great Prestie Holler Spec Just Took a Big Fat Price Reduction…

Here is a brand spanking new Preston Hollow home on Pemberton, a couple houses west of Hillcrest. Really nice construction, the home is a spec, yes, but an elegant one.

Which reminds me: there is a trend I am seeing in spec homes: they are getting snazzier by the minute. Gone are the days when builders could throw up a spec home quickly and starve it — keep it lean and mean to generate as big a return as possible. Buyers are getting ever more sophisticated. Spec homes today are the poster children of what everyone wants in a home: three car garage bays, huge kitchens, covered patios, outdoor rooms & fireplaces, and AT LEAST one downstairs bedroom, if not two. Multi use rooms are hotter than blazes.

The other thing I like about 6831 Pemberton is the size: 5600 square feet very well utilized. The builder took advantage of every nook and cranny to add a window seat here, a cabinet there. In all, this home boasts FOUR fireplaces, as much as in some three million dollar Park Cities palaces to the south.

But this pup is only $1,699,000, reduced (for quick sale, sorry I just love that phrase: like, when is a sale never quick? Who wants a slow, long, drawn-out sale?) from a high of $1,750,000.

Speaking of high, are the ceilings? Check. Higher than the weed queens in my dorm freshman year of college. Nice moldings? Check. No cluster-wusters.  Enter the home through a charming arched single door.  To the right of the foyer are the formal dining room graced with arches, and a formal study with plenty of built-in bookcases, built-in seating area, wood beams, a gas-log fireplace and windows that overlook the front lawn. I could so make this the world headquarters of CandysDirt.com.

To the left of the foyer is a living room with corner fireplace.

However, this room is such that it could be used as a den, music room, or even a bedroom, if needed.

A hefty butler’s pantry joins the formal dining room and kitchen. Meantime, the kitchen is quite open, gleaming with commercial-grade stainless appliances by Thermador including a gas range with double ovens, warming drawer and built-in refrigerator-freezer. There is a huge counter slab topped with exotic granite countertops and an island breakfast bar. A deep sink is on this island. The kitchen/breakfast room is open to the gigantic family room which features a gas-log fireplace and a wall of windows overlooking the outdoor living area and pool.

Oh yes, there is a mud room off the kitchen, very handy, plus one of two downstairs guest baths.

The light-filled downstairs master retreat to the left rear of the house has one of the prettiest bathrooms I have ever seen. There are dual marble vanities, a separate area with jetted tub complete with chandelier, a separate shower, walk-in closet and a large laundry facility accessible through the closet. Her vanity includes a dressing table built-in, and there are many benches for sitting.

Of course this all overlooks the spacious outdoor living area with an extensive patio compete with stonework and an outdoor fireplace. This area could EASILY be closed off as a screened-in porch with electric, retractable screens. The 16,000 gallon lap pool with Pebble Tec finish, said to be inspired by “brilliant riverbeds and pristine lagoons” is waiting for you to jump in. OK, well, maybe today, certainly not a few weeks ago.

Then there is the three-car rear entry garage, accessible through a remote controlled automatic entrance gate. Nice work by Jim Farmer, JFE Designs, LLC. A custom home builder with the bluest eyes you have ever seen. In fact, I would say that’s where the inspiration for the pool finish came from, most likely. Those blue eyes just make it a huge pleasure to talk to Jim whenever there’s a, shall we say, building need!

Listed with Kelly Logsdon Rush of Ebby Halliday and also Champions School of Real Estate. Reduced, like I said, to $1,699,000. May not be for quick sale, but methinks this sale will come quick.