It would be a dream come true for most people — a new home built by a respected
contractor on the lot with the best view in a brand-new golf and country club.“That’s the 18th green right
behind the house,” public relations executive Pat Pearson points out.
But there’s more. The
3,000-square-foot, two-story house, located at 240 Laurel Valley Way in the Crescent Golf
and Country Club, has already been furnished and decorated by some of Rowan County’s
top designers.
Food was even in the cabinets when
the house, fully landscaped with irrigation and security systems already in place, opened
to the public yesterday.
“The Harvest House” will
be open Saturdays and Sundays from 1 to 5 p.m. through November 21 to raise money for the
Rowan Regional Medical Center Foundation. Admission is $5.
“We’re going to offer it
during the show completely furnished,” Pearson says.
The price? Well, take the $469,000
unfurnished asking price for the combination stone and brick house built by Goodman
Millwork and F.E. Goodman Construction and add $100,000 for the antique furnishings and
accessories for the foyer and great room. Add the cost of the top-of-the-line furnishings
for the kitchen, dining room, four bedrooms and stone deck and ...
You get the idea.
This is a show house, and
designers were showing off when they selected the furniture and accessories for the rooms
they were asked to decorate.
“We have a lot of real
talented designers around here,” Pearson says.
The talent of Jeffrey Penfil of
Antiquarius of 108 N. Main St. will greet visitors in the foyer of the house. He also
decorated the great room, but more on it later in the tour.
The custom maple and oak staircase
with a landing midway up leads visitors to the second floor, where a wooden railing on a
bridge allows a closer view of the intricate English-Tudor style oak beamed, 20-foot
ceiling of the great room.
Franco Goodman, president of
Goodman Millwork, saw a ceiling like it in a castle in Europe, according to Pearson.
Goodman used a photograph to try to recreate it.
Once visitors have finished
admiring the great room, they may want to linger on the bridge and take in the spectacular
view of the golf course from the wall of Marvin windows on the back of the house.
From there, they will be guided
through the first of four bedrooms in the house. The large bedroom features bay windows
and walls painted a robin’s egg blue.
Decorated for a girl by Bare
Furniture Company of 1660 N. Main St., China Grove, and Decorating Sense of Salisbury, the
room is furnished with a white bedroom suit and feminine accessories including large and
small rabbit figurines and a set of rabbit bookends and pink miniature roses.
The room opens into one of two
vanities in a Jack-and-Jill bathroom shared by the resident of the adjacent bedroom, which
was painted a taupe color and decorated for a boy by Turn Key Interiors of 132 S. Main
St., Granite Quarry, and Anne/Roland Furniture of 4011 Statesville Blvd.
Furnishings include a twin bed,
dresser and bookcase along with a trunk at the foot of the bed and an Eddie Bauer bench
against the window. A small door next to the window opens into a storage area.
Old cars, figurines of a baseball
player and football player and trophy add the finishing touches.
A desk at the end of the hall puts
the computer, being furnished for the show house by Circuit City, in a common area. This
allows parents to more carefully monitor their children’s Internet activities,
Pearson says.
Across the hall from the
boy’s room, the pale yellow walls of the guest room have been accented with bright
and innovative decorations by Textile Products Inc. of 119-121 N. Main St.
A section of picket fence with a
birdhouse on each end was custom designed by Kimberly Hardiman to serve as a headboard.
Behind it, a stuffed parrot is perched in a large bird cage.
On a table beside the bed, a copy
of Mary Higgins Clark’s “Let Me Call You Sweetheart” has turned pages down
to mark the place. A pair of glasses on top and a set of red luggage to match the
comforter gives the room a lived-in touch.
A set of sunflower prints add even
more color to the room, and the windows offer another view of the course. It may very well
be the best view in the house, Pearson says.
Next to the bedroom, a secondary
staircase leads down the back of the house.
Back downstairs, the tour resumes
in the great room, where a massive stone fireplace, columns, wainscot paneling, grand
piano and 18th and 19th century estate antiques add to the elegance.
Rugs accent the wide-planked oak
floors in the great room and dining room. The floor of the master bedroom, next on the
tour, is carpeted, as are the bedrooms upstairs.The master bedroom, decorated by Bare
Furniture and Decorating Sense, opens onto an oversized stone deck which spans the entire
length of the house.
Interior artist Chadwick Morgan
did the faux painting, custom wall glazing and stenciling in the lavish master bathroom,
which features a spacious walk-in closet.
From the master bedroom, visitors
will walk down the hall into the foyer, where they will be able to peek inside the cherry
red powder room before entering the dining room, decorated by Turn Key Interiors and
Anne/Roland Furniture.
Beautifully arranged flowers have
been carefully placed on the dining room table and corner hutch, while a large fern is
showcased on a five-foot stand at the front window.
The tour continues with the
butler’s pantry and kitchen, where solid cherry cabinets, a large island with room
for stools, a TV and computer stand and adjoining sunroom/nook with French doors leading
onto the deck are sure to impress visitors.
A Neptune, stacked washer/dryer
which conserves energy and water, is a feature of the laundry room, and the two-vehicle
garage is lined in western cedar. “It’s a giant cedar closet,” Pearson
says.
The garage will be set up as a
showroom during the tour with product displays, price lists and more information on the
house and furnishings.
The Crescent Golf and Country Club
is accessible from U.S. 601 and U.S. 601 Bypass.
Next year, Pearson says his Mad
Avenue South public relations/advertising firm, is considering featuring three or four
houses with different builders and decorators. It would be promoted as a “Street of
Dreams.”
For more information on The
Harvest House, call Mad Ave. at 637-3339. |
