PICTURESQUE PERFECT: This shingle-style home is really a living art gallery, complete with big glass canvas renderings of the finest, brightest, boldest landscape paintings God and/or Mother Nature could create. Of course, the home is not all about the views, but when you are there (and you must come and see for yourself!) you will have a hard time pulling your eyes away from the windows. In its way, the house itself is another work of art, a highly disciplined rendering of the Arts&Crafts aesthetic in the mediums of glass, wood and plaster mounted in an amazing waterside stone alcove (there is a reason why this is called “STONEhurst”). While Nature and God may go about things very painterly, splashing color and shapes around in a crazed kaleidoscope fashion, the master builder of this house achieves perfection in orderly detail. Pull out the drawers, look at the joinery in the built-ins everywhere in the house, and feel the PRIDE (I’m not talking wax) underfoot in the mellow softwood floors throughout. All very Picturesque Perfect.
A few words about the cistern, which is perfectly paired with the ecology/economy-minded air-source heat pump system in this house. Rural Nova Scotia is long overdue in embracing cistern technology, which is the intelligent, healthy and ultimately most economical answer to the “hard” reality that much of the province lacks the soil to supply sufficient ground water in dug wells and by drilling deeper we are sucking our drinking water through every imaginable nasty mineral strata, and then paying to have it cleaned up. The solution to both the quantity and quality problem is to get your water as it is delivered from the heavens and store it in a sanitary cistern. There’s nothing new in this (think Bermuda!), though in viewing this property you will have the opportunity to see the future...and maybe get there ahead of the crowd!
From Lunenburg, take Hwy-332 to Blue Rocks Rd and continue 4.5 km to Blue Rocks. At the church turn left onto Stonehurst Rd and continue 1km then veer to the right onto South Side Rd. Civic #145 is the first house on your left. Look for the Red Door Realty sign!
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