This Soft Contemporary Home Near Eagle Mountain Lake Really Pours on the Charm

April 25, 2025 | Joy Donovan | | Fort Worth Dirt, Friday Four Hundred

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Looking for those water people. They love water. They want to live on the water. Gosh, they probably even drink water.

This house even says what it’s all about with its address: 8521 Lake Country Dr. in Fort Worth. It’s mere minutes from Eagle Mountain Lake and all the boating, skiing, and fishing fun found there.

Should that be too far for anyone needing an immediate water fix, the pool stands ready in the totally private backyard with pool equipment just purchased this year. For those who would rather look at the water than be in it, the backyard comes with two covered patios.

Wonderful Water

The house is like a reservoir that comes with all this water wonderfulness.

“It’s simply stunning,” said listing Realtor Katherine Hubbard, who is also a broker. “It truly is.”

The front porch and double iron doors lead into the living space of a 1978 soft Contemporary house with plenty of updates.

The iron double front doors of this soft Contemporary house open to 2,308 square feet of living space. Built in 1978, it received a major remodel in 2023 and 2024, which included re-landscaping the front of the house.

The list of updates in this four-bedroom, three-bathroom house cascades like a waterfall. Among the items on that list are HVAC, paint, flooring, a microwave, garbage disposal, and iron patio doors to match the front doors.

Wading through the house, a potential homebuyer will find water features in its depths. Of course, a wet bar is part of the sunken living room, as is the limewashed stone fireplace.

The breakfast nook? The enormous window floods the space with light and allows light, and allows a view of the pool, too. The spa-like bathroom of the primary suite was updated with quartz countertops and the home’s half bath has been updated, too.

An oversized window floods the house with light and gives a view of the backyard pool.

Harbor in North Texas

Nearby are the trails at Eagle Mountain Park, perfect for hiking and picnicking. If work interrupts the lake lifestyle from time to time, the house is about 30 minutes to downtown Fort Worth and a little more than 20 to the Fort Worth Stockyards.

Oversized windows flood the house, even the bedrooms, with light.

But it would be easy to forget the outside world in this house. It easily could be a true harbor for anyone wanting to be surrounded by water while still living in North Texas. The house floats in a league of its own.

Want to see it? Broker Katherine Hubbard with DFW 1% Listings is hosting an open house from 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday. It’s listed at $475,000.