ROSLYN ESTATES | Do cookie-cutter colonials, stark contemporaries, and boring ranches leave you uninspired? Do you feel that open floor plans will rob you of peace and privacy? Then this unique and charming five-bedroom, three-full-bath, updated home, built into a gorgeous nearly one-third-acre hillside property, may be exactly what you seek. Only thirty-minutes or so from Manhattan in a delightfully scenic, congenial, and convenient community called Roslyn Estates, this exceptional getaway offers many levels and rooms where all can follow their own pursuits or gather together with ample space for fun. According to its Mayor, Roslyn Estates is “a one-of-a-kind village, full of charm, character and history. Its residents live, “midst gorgeous trees, fabulous ponds, and rolling hills.” On its northern border, businesses such as fine restaurants and The Americana at Manhasset outdoor mall run along highway 25A. To its west is the 98-acre Christopher Morley Park, with golf course, athletic fields, playground, picnic area, indoor tennis, outdoor pool, ice rink, basketball, handball, and paddleball courts, horseshoe and shuffleboard courts, farmer’s market, and thirty acres of nature trails plus a fitness trail. To its east is the destination village of Roslyn with its parks, and quaint business center. Just a pleasant drive away are plethora of entertainment and sporting venues from equestrian, yachting, golf, shopping, dining, theater, and more. Uniquely equipped for many activities including entertaining, relaxing, studying, and pursuing hobbies, this very special home offers four levels of living space designed for your enjoyment. From a charming front porch overlooking the exquisitely adorned front hillside, guests are welcomed into a spacious foyer that flows to the right into a generous living room and to the left into a banquet-sized dining room. To the rear, stairs lead to upper and lower levels. A hallway leads to the sunny and cheerful country, eat-in kitchen. Here, breakfast will be a delight with banquette seats and a breakfront matching the kitchen’s French-country cabinetry featuring hard-surface countertop, custom hand painted blue-and-white tile backsplash, farm sink plus a charming curved hardwood-topped center island, with seating. High-end appliances include stainless-steel dishwasher, built-in double oven, gas stovetop, microwave, and integrated refrigerator. On the lower level, the expansive family room, with wood-burning fireplace, stunning media center, and billiard area with bench seating, invites you to relax and enjoy its seaside cottage ambiance enhanced by driftwood paneling, terra cotta floors, and double sliding-glass doors opening to an expansive stone veranda. Overlooking an immense, beautifully landscaped, and fenced-in rear property, it provides a perfect venue for outdoor dining, barbecuing, lawn games or a future pool. The remainder of this level includes a hall with attractive full bath, guest room presently used as a gym, and access to the attached two-car garage and the finished basement. This lowest level provides a large recreation/media room/gym with sliding barn doors accessing a roomy workshop, with tiled floor, at one end and a laundry room dog bath, and walk-in cedar closet at the other. On the second floor, a palatial primary suite boasts a private foyer, serene bedroom, ample closets, and a Travertine private bath with shower. The remainder of this floor houses two spacious bedrooms and a beautifully updated bath with tub/shower and Carrara marble-topped twin vanity. A few steps lead up to another level with a fifth bedroom offering a sleeping loft, built-ins, and two closets. The romantic and inviting character of this impeccable home is ready to fulfil and serve your individual needs and taste to a tee. Welcome home.