Price Improved! Bright and airy home with farm house charm in Huntington

HUNTINGTON. Enjoy a sense of serenity and country living in this 2007, like-new, 4,500-square-foot home, featuring five bedrooms and three baths. Combining several architectural styles, including a large rocking-chair porch and Palladian windows, this two-story home offers a charming “farm house” persona and is surrounded by well over an acre of beautifully-landscaped, level, sweeping lawns, estate fencing, playground, hot tub, and glistening inground, heated saltwater pool with automatic cover and travertine stone surround. Approached off a private drive in Huntington, about two miles from the train station and from the town’s delightful shopping district, it is convenient to village dining, golf, yacht clubs, harbor, and beaches. Visitors are welcomed into a sunny two-story foyer with fielded-panel wainscoting, guest double closet, graceful staircase, and gleaming hardwood floors that flow throughout the home. To its left, a bright and airy living room boasts a large Palladian window reaching toward the high vaulted ceiling. Custom-paint stain-trimmed hardwood floors and wainscoting extend through a large doorway, with custom moldings, into the gracious formal dining room that overlooks the side and rear property. The adjoining eat-in kitchen is a gourmet cook’s dream featuring ample, granite-topped cherry cabinetry, center island, planning center, high-end stainless steel gas cooktop and hood, dishwasher, wall double-oven, and side-by-side refrigerator with in-door filtered ice and water. Hardwood floors flow into the sunny breakfast area, with bay window overlooking the rear property, and into the family room that features a gas fireplace, windows, and French sliding doors opening to the rear stone patio. This summer retreat is a perfect venue for conversation, sunbathing, al fresco dining and soaking in the hot tub. Also on the main level a study/bedroom, marble full bath, and mudroom with custom built-ins. On the second floor, a palatial master suite offer a spacious master bedroom with tray ceiling, custom closets, and an inviting gas fireplace with marble surround and overmantle niche wired for television. The luxury master bath provides a modern-style built in bathtub, shower, vaulted, sky-lit ceiling, and Corian topped twin vanity. Three additional bedrooms share a large bath that includes a granite-topped twin vanity and large tub/shower with partial glass wall. The full, finished basement provides plenty of space for play or development into any number of uses. Providing ample space perfectly maintained to resemble brand new, this special home provides a perfect setting for enjoyable, year-round living and entertaining.