A Hidden Turtle Creek Enclave Holds the Perfect Luxury Lock and Leave

If you’ve never heard of the private enclave of Turtle Creek Bend, just off Wycliff on the very edge of Highland Park, you wouldn’t be alone, according to listing agent, broker David Griffin of David Griffin & Company Real Estate. The tony enclave consists of just 19 homes perched along the creek itself, a cul de sac community that borders Highland Park, Turtle Creek, Wycliff, and Christopher Place. With no through streets, you’d have to know it’s there to know it’s there, if you know what I mean.

Griffin has listed one of these rare homes, and it’s our Highlight Home of the Week, sponsored by Lisa Peters, Senior Loan Officer with First Horizon.

A Secret Garden

If you’re looking for privacy surrounded by nature, yet in the city, it doesn’t get better than this. Enter through garden gates to a lushly landscaped courtyard to your own private paradise. In back, the balcony overlooks Turtle Creek, and the home across is a verdant Highland Park estate, so the view is nothing but landscape. Surrounded by nature, you’re still only responsible for a simple courtyard and balcony, so the maintenance couldn’t be simpler.

A Turtle Creek Treasure

Inside, the home has been well-maintained and elegantly updated in all the most important ways. Award-winning AIA Architect Russell Buchanan was tapped to rethink the original design, which is light, bright, and beautiful.

Floor-to-ceiling windows grace the living room, with motorized shades, “for when that stunning view just gets to be too much,” Griffin said with a chuckle. Museum-finish walls and lights for displaying art to perfection round out this stunning space.

Off the living room is a family room and music room, creating a larger space for easy entertaining, and you can see how the balcony goes the length of the living room and family room. This space is also open to the kitchen and dining room, opposite.

The kitchen has been recently updated with stainless steel appliances, including a built-in Miele refrigerator-freezer, and a new backsplash, and has a fresh, open feel. The dining room is spacious, with ambient lighting and creek views, for the perfect setting for an evening’s entertainment.

A fun surprise upstairs is this bonus family room. It’s huge, with tons of built-in storage, a fireplace, a statement chandelier, and — a Murphy bed! The current owners use this as a room to entertain their grandkids when they visit, and at the end of the evening, voila! It converts to a bedroom!

The primary suite is also a unique retreat in that it has an extra room as part of the suite. The current owners use it as an art studio, but it could be an office, yoga studio, sitting room, you name it! The studio has a balcony overlooking the creek. The primary bath is the height of luxury, having just been redone: double vanities, a Japanese style steeping tub, a separate, glass enclosed shower and marble and walnut finishes.

With two bedrooms, two and a half baths, and just under 3,800 square feet, Griffin said this could be a great down-sizer home given the location, the ease of lock-and-leave, and the ability to transition from a larger space. “There is a ton of storage space in this home. From huge walk-in closets, to the large utility room and over-sized garage, there are also additional closets upstairs and in the foyer, and space under the stairs.”

This hidden treasure is truly a unique opportunity in a neighborhood you may not have known was there!

David Griffin has 7 Turtle Creek Bend listed for $2.23 million.