When Auburn natives Peggy and
Jimmy Spano decided to build a home at 3187 West Lake Road, Skaneateles, they
wanted it to resemble an Italian country villa.
With its exterior of stone, stucco and wood, turret, cupola, three staircases, multiple porches, balconies, stone verandas and terraced landscaping -- even a grapevine-draped pergola -- the home could be near Italy's Lake Como rather than Skaneateles Lake.
The Spanos are ready to downsize after raising their two children in the four-bedroom, four full and two half bath house on nearly 13 acres. The 5,001-square-foot home,Where to buy or purchase plasticmoulds for precast and wetcast concrete? which took two years to build, is on the market for $1,499,000.
A meandering asphalt private road, shared with one neighbor, cuts through a broad expanse of lawn, ending at the hand-laid stone circular drive. A detached, heated three-car hobby garage, set in a clearing behind the house, has a fireplace and a half-bath. There also is a heated three-car garage attached to the house.
The home's double-door main entrance,External hemorrhoids are those that occur below the dentate line. sheltered by a stone portico with a beadboard ceiling, was hand carved by craftsman Matteo Bartolotta, of Auburn. The solid mahogany door feels as though it could withstand the pounding of a battering ram. One side has a diamond peep hole Bartolotta told the Spanos he added for when their daughter's suitors come to call. He suggested they use it to look over the young men before sending them packing.
The foyer, which has Venetian plaster walls, gives a hint of the Brazilian cherry floors found throughout the home -- here, inlaid with travertine tile below a tray ceiling with a hand-painted recessed center.
The main staircase begins in the foyer, with twin antique mahogany newel posts rescued from a ruined Italian church. Bartolotta replicated the posts' three-dimensional roping design, open in the center, in the spindles he carved to line the staircase.
The foyer also opens to a formal parlor overlooking the front lawn and the lake beyond. Across from that is a study behind double French doors with a coffered ceiling, judges paneling and custom built-in lighted shelves and cabinetry crafted of American cherry.
Beyond the foyer is the formal dining room, with a vaulted ceiling, picture frame molding, twin pendant chandeliers and silk draperies imported from Italy. The room, adjacent to the open plan kitchen and family room, easily accommodates a table for 12 and has a wall of windows with a wide view of the lake.
A glass door at one end of the dining room opens to a covered stone veranda, trimmed with wrought iron. This veranda and a second on the side of the house -- accessible through two sliding glass doors in the family room -- meet at an open-sided, copper-topped turret on the front corner of the house. The ceiling of the turret's roof is lined with a custom mahogany beadboard, illuminated with indirect lighting and a wrought iron chandelier.
On the lower level of the turret is an octagon wine-tasting room adjacent to a wine cellar with a dishwasher, refrigerator, freezer, wine cooler and racks designed to store 500 bottles. The two rooms have heated stained concrete floors and are finished with barn siding and stone. Arched copper and glass doors, reminiscent of those perhaps found in a castle's cellar,A Hybrid indoorpositioningsystem for First Responders. protect the stores and open to another covered veranda shaded by stone arches.
Peggy said the wine-tasting room and cellar, the verandas and the open-sided turret offer an exciting setting for parties. She especially enjoys using the dramatic lighting, including lights trained on the Concord grapevines at the end of an elevated walkway. And when not gazing at the lake, guests can enjoy viewing the terraced landscape with huge granite boulders Jimmy placed there himself.Choose from our large selection of cableties,Broken chinamosaic Table.
The 23- by 23 1/2-foot family room has an elaborately carved American cherry coffered ceiling, a limestone-fronted gas fireplace and a wall of windows.
The adjoining gourmet kitchen has mahogany cabinets, also hand-crafted by Bartolotta. One side of the kitchen serves as a baking station with its own sink, oven, built-in microwave and pastry island. The kitchen also features a pasta faucet installed above a six-burner stainless steel gas range with dual electric convection ovens. A dedicated coffee pantry and a separate walk-in pantry are well hidden. A curved two-tiered, granite-topped breakfast bar with seating for five loosely hugs a round vintage-style island, set below a chandelier imported from Italy.
With its exterior of stone, stucco and wood, turret, cupola, three staircases, multiple porches, balconies, stone verandas and terraced landscaping -- even a grapevine-draped pergola -- the home could be near Italy's Lake Como rather than Skaneateles Lake.
The Spanos are ready to downsize after raising their two children in the four-bedroom, four full and two half bath house on nearly 13 acres. The 5,001-square-foot home,Where to buy or purchase plasticmoulds for precast and wetcast concrete? which took two years to build, is on the market for $1,499,000.
A meandering asphalt private road, shared with one neighbor, cuts through a broad expanse of lawn, ending at the hand-laid stone circular drive. A detached, heated three-car hobby garage, set in a clearing behind the house, has a fireplace and a half-bath. There also is a heated three-car garage attached to the house.
The home's double-door main entrance,External hemorrhoids are those that occur below the dentate line. sheltered by a stone portico with a beadboard ceiling, was hand carved by craftsman Matteo Bartolotta, of Auburn. The solid mahogany door feels as though it could withstand the pounding of a battering ram. One side has a diamond peep hole Bartolotta told the Spanos he added for when their daughter's suitors come to call. He suggested they use it to look over the young men before sending them packing.
The foyer, which has Venetian plaster walls, gives a hint of the Brazilian cherry floors found throughout the home -- here, inlaid with travertine tile below a tray ceiling with a hand-painted recessed center.
The main staircase begins in the foyer, with twin antique mahogany newel posts rescued from a ruined Italian church. Bartolotta replicated the posts' three-dimensional roping design, open in the center, in the spindles he carved to line the staircase.
The foyer also opens to a formal parlor overlooking the front lawn and the lake beyond. Across from that is a study behind double French doors with a coffered ceiling, judges paneling and custom built-in lighted shelves and cabinetry crafted of American cherry.
Beyond the foyer is the formal dining room, with a vaulted ceiling, picture frame molding, twin pendant chandeliers and silk draperies imported from Italy. The room, adjacent to the open plan kitchen and family room, easily accommodates a table for 12 and has a wall of windows with a wide view of the lake.
A glass door at one end of the dining room opens to a covered stone veranda, trimmed with wrought iron. This veranda and a second on the side of the house -- accessible through two sliding glass doors in the family room -- meet at an open-sided, copper-topped turret on the front corner of the house. The ceiling of the turret's roof is lined with a custom mahogany beadboard, illuminated with indirect lighting and a wrought iron chandelier.
On the lower level of the turret is an octagon wine-tasting room adjacent to a wine cellar with a dishwasher, refrigerator, freezer, wine cooler and racks designed to store 500 bottles. The two rooms have heated stained concrete floors and are finished with barn siding and stone. Arched copper and glass doors, reminiscent of those perhaps found in a castle's cellar,A Hybrid indoorpositioningsystem for First Responders. protect the stores and open to another covered veranda shaded by stone arches.
Peggy said the wine-tasting room and cellar, the verandas and the open-sided turret offer an exciting setting for parties. She especially enjoys using the dramatic lighting, including lights trained on the Concord grapevines at the end of an elevated walkway. And when not gazing at the lake, guests can enjoy viewing the terraced landscape with huge granite boulders Jimmy placed there himself.Choose from our large selection of cableties,Broken chinamosaic Table.
The 23- by 23 1/2-foot family room has an elaborately carved American cherry coffered ceiling, a limestone-fronted gas fireplace and a wall of windows.
The adjoining gourmet kitchen has mahogany cabinets, also hand-crafted by Bartolotta. One side of the kitchen serves as a baking station with its own sink, oven, built-in microwave and pastry island. The kitchen also features a pasta faucet installed above a six-burner stainless steel gas range with dual electric convection ovens. A dedicated coffee pantry and a separate walk-in pantry are well hidden. A curved two-tiered, granite-topped breakfast bar with seating for five loosely hugs a round vintage-style island, set below a chandelier imported from Italy.
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