Check Out This Abilene Home That’s the Picture of Remote Luxury

Sometimes you have to come out of retirement because a house is so freaking fantastic — maybe, just maybe, every one of your dreams is literally coming true. (In this scenario, your dreams are my dreams. Literally).

It’s a gorgeous home with views for days, sitting on a huge lot just outside of Abilene in Tuscola.

She’s a Scream

Owned by a prominent Big Country family, this home is top-to-bottom fabulous. It’s so good it makes me want to scream inside a turtleneck sweater.

Polished concrete floors, cedar beams, limestone accent walls, impeccable built-ins, and the most flawless interior design with an art collection that’s like Louvre who? Not to mention the huge plate glass windows that offer sweeping views of the valley below.

This home and this lot are so unique, they basically invented a category — Remote Luxury. Doesn’t that sound lovely?

Ready for Its Close-Up

Turn any corner, and there’s an unobstructed view with nary a neighbor in sight. Turn another corner, and there’s a new detail to obsess over — the copper, single-basin, farmhouse apron sink in the utility room. (If only I’d use adjectives, right)?

The wood trim matches the doors, which intentionally — not coincidentally — match the solid wood beams on the ceiling above. It’s a cavalcade of everything that’s right in residential design.

This is a movie set home if ever there were one.

Maybe what I love most is that it’s not a massive home. It’s seemingly modest at 3,785 square feet, with three bedrooms and four full bathrooms. And while I do love the size and the finish-out of this mountaintop home, let’s get real — what I love most is the lot.

It’s All Yours

THE LOT. I mean, come on. Set atop Steamboat Mountain with panoramic views, can you even imagine the sky at sunset?

Or swimming in that pool that disappears over the edge in a way that can only be described as “infinity.” (But whisper it like they did in perfume commercials back in the 1990s).

All in, there are 21.31 acres to look out over, and they’re all yours. Like in The Lion King. Everything the sun touches (within predetermined metes and bounds) is your kingdom. Or queendom. Or nonbinary-dom.

As Hill pointed out, Abilene real estate is about to get extra interesting with the Stargate Project investing $2.3 billion in the city. Maybe get this one under contract before the out-of-staters catch wind?

John Hill with Barnett & Hill has 226 Rabbit Run listed for $2.5 million.