1785 Coits Pond RoadCabot, VT 05647Sale Price: $900,000

Interplay of light, shadow, texture, & color within a storybook landscape. End of the road, top of the hill, beginning of a dream. Artfully restored farmhouse, & barn complex turned studio and office. Live/work. Entertain/play. Collect/display. Farm/harvest/process. Room for all your aspirations and more. 3 season porch overlooking rolling meadows & old sugarhouse at woods edge. Simple materials palette strikes balance between modern and traditional: wide board pine flooring and white painted hand-hewn beam & planked ceilings. Cohesive composition of artful elements with sunshine and elegance at every turn. Gather in the eat-in / live-in cooks kitchen and around its glass-front wood stove, grand piano, and lounge-y furniture . . . or retreat to the cozy and quiet fireplace(d) living space that adjoins. Grilled feasts and every summer meal around the farmhouse table on the sunny back porch. Owners suite: luxuriate in the Japanese soaking tub, unwind in the sauna, & marvel at the shower and closet space. Big red barn with garage, workshop, and massive storage loft telescopes into long grey barn containing office, studio, lounge space. Loon call under a rising moon. Granite walled gardens. Peonies. Old apple trees. Sunrise & Sunset. Ancient maples. Front & back staircases, the quietest of roads, the sweetest neighbors. Swim, kayak, & canoe in the lake-like ponds down the road. The bucolitude abounds . . . Live this magic, this permanent smile. Showings begin September 1.