Overview

STONE ARCHES | OLD WESTBURY - Looking for a little romance in your life? Then you will fall in love with this delightful, sprawling, one-level French Chateau in the heart of Old Westbury’s luxury Stone Arches. Completely renovated from roof to finished basement, this one-of-a-kind home has been meticulously crafted to transport you to the south of France with its stone and stucco exterior, copper gutters and arched dormers, stone entry and porch, and spectacular, resort-style fenced rear property with heated pool, tennis and basketball court, expansive stone patio, and gorgeous, secluded grounds with putting green and ample space for practicing your chipping. Long a popular area for Manhattan’s magnates and luminaries, Old Westbury is just 30 minutes by railway or highway from Manhattan. Its verdant, rolling hills are covered with luxury homes and grand estates and dotted with golf courses, a polo club, and three major universities. Just a short drive from boating, museums, fine dining, and premier shopping, it will make you feel like you are on vacation all year long. Impeccably landscaped with plantings and flowering shrubs and trees, this charming, ranch welcomes your guests with stone steps and terrace to an inviting gabled entry and charming old-world-like arched doorway. The spacious entrance foyer immediately sets the stage for a romantic French country experience with tray ceilings, charming French-style windows, and wide-plank floors that flow throughout much of the home. To the right, a banquet-sized dining room leading you into the kitchen and right wing of the home. Straight ahead, is the impressive and most inviting great room with open-beam tray ceiling and a stunning stone fireplace flanked by French doors opening to the rear patio. Large doorways access a study to the left that opens to the pool area and to a hall leading into the bedroom wing. The great room flows to its right into the expansive and exquisitely designed French country kitchen, featuring gorgeous furniture-like butternut wood cabinetry with blue granite countertops, huge hammered-metal farm sink, and top-of-the-line oversized appliances including sub-zero refrigerator and freezer, Miele dishwasher, a double-oven, microwave drawer, a wine fridge, and six-burner gas cooktop with griddle, pot filler, and European style stove with vent hood. Heated Travertine floors flow into a spacious breakfast area with French doors to the patio. Off the kitchen, a hall leads into the right wing’s pantry, full bath, study/guestroom, laundry/mud room, attached two-car garage, and stone porch. The left wing houses a palatial primary suite with huge bedroom that includes French doors to the pool and a tray ceiling, sitting area, luxurious bath with free-standing tub, large shower, and twin vanity, plus walk-in closets, and three generous bedrooms, and two designer baths. Accessed from the foyer, the full, finished basement includes an entertainment room, office, gym, cedar closet, and access to the rear property. Come visit this unique and charming home, with its romantic French ambiance, and you may never want to leave.