Flexible living is a beautiful thing

What if you had all your bases covered simply by choosing the right home? Your daughter wants a picture-perfect backyard wedding—check! Your adult child wants to remain “independently” at home while she gets her MBA—no problem. Your wife wants to pursue her dream of designing jewelry in a space all her own and selling it on Etsy.com. Your aging parents need a place to live for six months a year while they enjoy their snowbird existence. Oh and don’t forget, as “therapy” to quell your husband’s midlife crisis (forgive the stereotype), he wants to restore a vintage Ford Mustang. With five garage bays, you’re covered.

In this life, we can count on one thing: our needs change over time. And while we can sometimes be flexible in our thinking, physical flexibility is harder to come by. The perfect home should be redefined as one that can serve today’s needs and adapt to serve your needs tomorrow, next year, or ten years down the road.

 Grand and modest at once—that’s what you’ll have with 5258 square feet of custom designed, light-filled space in the original Guida property built more than a hundred years ago. Located at 130 Main Street in Middlefield, the parcel itself is surprisingly private and lush with 1.6 acres that abut the quiet woods of Wadsworth Park.

This unmatched Colonial home, completely rebuilt in 2003, offers much that goes beyond the ordinary including a drive-through portico, a unique rotunda room for office or studio space, garage space for five cars, a separate one bedroom apartment, and a fabulous main house with wrap-around front porch, private rear deck and glorious level yard. This home is eye-catching for its curb appeal and architectural grace. Most people who have driven by and admired it would be impressed by its interior spaces.

The main house focuses on the great room and enormous gourmet kitchen anchored at the rear of the house. The open floor plan exceeds the cliché making a party for 100 or so guests very doable. The kitchen is designed to provide workstations for multiple chefs and does an excellent job of keeping guests and diners close without impeding the progress of food preparation or frustrating the chefs. There is storage for every gadget, a wet bar, large island and peninsula with counter space for six. 

The great room showcases a fieldstone fireplace with antique mantel and provides handy access to the incredible maintenance free deck through sliding doors. The first floor also includes formal dining and living rooms and an intimate den or study. A choice of two staircases will lead you to the second floor to four spacious bedrooms including the soothing master suite with vaulted ceiling, huge walk-in closet, and the privacy of a connecting office for telecommuting convenience. And the views from the Jacuzzi tub in the master bath will not disappoint.

Main house notables include central air conditioning, central vacuum, built-in window seats and nooks, pristine hardwood floors, raised panel wainscoting, two staircases, laundry rooms on both floors, full basement, and a walk-up attic.

Across the driveway are the garages, apartment, and spacious ground-floor studio/business space with lots of windows. The completely separate apartment is large and bright offering in-law convenience or an income opportunity as a rental. Located above the garage, it includes a generously sized kitchen with plenty of counters and cabinets with a breakfast bar and opens to the spacious dining and living rooms and private balcony with steps to the backyard. The apartment includes one large bedroom and a separate office or study. The full bath doubles as a laundry room for complete independence, plus a full bath/laundry room. Imagine yourself making a home here and being ready for nearly any conceivable change in the future! Click here to view this listing offered for $669,900.