Rear View of Home & Garden Walkways at Twilight
- Rear covered porch with bluestone slate tile terrace, vaulted cypress planked ceiling and ceiling fan
- Rear Yard: professional landscaping with mature trees, grassy lawn, flowering shrubs, sculpted shrubbery; illuminated bluestone slate walkways; landscape lighting and custom stone retaining walls
- Sinker cypress and wrought iron garden gates
- Flagstone pathways meander down to Bayou level bordered by natural landscaping
- Variable depth heated pool with glass tile accents, underwater lighting and bluestone slate tile pool deck
- Separate Spa with fountains
- Colonnaded arbor with gas lamps, and overhead vines trained to trellis
- Wood burning fireplace with elevated hearth
- The flooring on the first floor is over 100 years old and is reclaimed from tobacco barns on the east coast. The surface is the original surface, hand-sanded, then fumed with ammonia to give it it’s color and then waxed.*
- The distinctive wood used throughout the home, both interior and exterior, is sinker cypress.* Sinker cypress is “old growth wood” reclaimed from rivers and swamps, is Eco-friendly and is often used to obtain LEEDs points (The Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design – Green Building Rating System)
- Exterior is hand-hewn, hand-chiseled stone from Ontario, Canada*
- In the Interiors hand-hewn, hand-chiseled limestone was used, frequently Lueder’s limestone* that comes from the Lueders Basin in Texas. On some occasions the limestone was distressed to achieve a decorative effect.
- White oak* is used extensively in the paneling and wainscoting on the property
- Exterior windows are all sinker cypress-framed casement windows with brass hardware and interior wood-framed French-door brass screens*
- The custom hand-plastered walls and ceilings are a unique French formula and process*
- Solid core paneled interior doors
- Bluestone slate* is used throughout the property for walkways and terraces
- Copper drain pipes and gutters*
- The two sinker cypress wood carvings (Front Entry Porch and Master Terrace) were designed and carved for this property*
* = Per Builder
- Whole-house audio system with central directory control*
- Lutron® “one-touch” lighting system throughout the property
- Whole-house water filtration system by AquaPure®*
- Elevator to all three floors
- Dumb Waiter from Butler’s Pantry to Wine Vault
- Extensive custom moldings, millwork and cabinetry throughout the entire property; most constructed and hand-crafted onsite
- All closets have jamb lights
- Sophisticated HVAC system with multiple zones and programmable thermostat
- Alarm system with LED read-out
- Three 75 gallon hot water heaters with a recirculating system* provide rapid delivery of hot water throughout the property
- Exterior electrics for holiday decorations or catering functions