Wind your way up the 1100' private tree-lined driveway to this upscale custom mission-style ranch home, situated on 8.1 acres w/views across Mohawk Valley and foothills of the Adirondack Mountains. Perfect home for the executive! Land • 8.1 surveyed acres including open fields and woods with views across the Mohawk Valley to the west (affording spectacular sunsets) and the foothills of the Adirondack Mountains to the north. • Several hundred feet of dry-laid fieldstone walls border the house. All the stones for the walls, raised bed gardens, and stone features come from the property. • Property includes mature maple, cherry, oak and shagbark hickory trees. • 1100’ private, tree-lined driveway with blue and white spruce, fir, crab apple, pin oak, Australian and white pine, and flowering pear trees. • Landscaping includes a wide variety of evergreens (blue and white spruce, hemlock, cedar, juniper yew), holly, white birch, crab apple, plum, pin oak, mugo pine, rhododendron, spirea, sand cherry, Alberta spruce, dwarf lilacs, hydrangea, variegated dogwood, weeping cherry, ferns, hostas, and a wide assortment of perennial flowers in raised bed gardens as well as throughout the property. • Power and phone service is underground. • 12’ by 20’ storage shed. • Large fire pit with sitting area covered with small stone, bordered by a fieldstone berm. • Stone patios on the east, south and west sides of the house. • Bird sanctuary on the west side, outside kitchen windows. Exterior All siding and trim is clear red cedar with 7 coats of Sikkens Cetol natural wood finish from Holland. All trim and clapboards are fastened with stainless steel nails to prevent rust staining. • Windows are Anderson vinyl-clad casement with low E high performance glass. • Front door and sidelights are Douglas fir. • Garage doors are 9’ by 8’ insulated Overhead Doors ith Overhead door openers. Doors are enhanced with insulated transom windows. • Roof shingles are 30 year architectural asphalt shingles. • Drip edges, valley flashing, and gutters are custom made, color coordinated, extruded aluminum. • Furnace and fireplace chimneys are brick—fireplace has tile liner, furnace has metal liner. • Retractable awnings are on the west kitchen window and the west patio. • Garage is oversized to accommodate mechanical room and additional storage space. Interior • Nine year old home includes approximately 2700 square feet of living space featuring a great room with red oak beams and large Champlain granite fireplace with exterior air supply, spacious kitchen with eating bar, dining area, three bedrooms, two full baths, study, and laundry room/pantry. • Kitchen cabinets are custom made cherry and maple; granite countertops and tumbled marble backsplash. Built-in custom maple cabinets on both sides of fireplace. • Main living area flooring is engineered, pre-finished Merbau. • Spacious master bedroom suite features a custom bay window, large walk-in closet and private bath with an oversize (4’x4’) shower, marble floor, cherry vanity and Corian countertop with two sinks. • Ten foot ceilings and crown moldings throughout. • Second bath has marble floor, cherry vanity and tub/shower combination. • All windows in main living area have transom windows above. • All interior doors are either solid Ponderosa pine or solid molded doors. • Interior trim and baseboards are custom clear pine. • Windows in main living area include Mission style maple inserts. • Three zone heating. Specifications & Operating Systems • Full perimeter poured concrete foundation walls with a 6” reinforced slab. The slab serves as the major heat-sink for the radiant heating system. • Foundation walls are insulated with 1 ½” of rigid Styrofoam, 3” of rigid Styrofoam under the slab. • 4000’ of radiant heat tubing is embedded in the concrete. All runs are continuous—no joints. • Outside walls are insulted with 3 ½” fiberglass and 1” urethane foam. Cap insulation is 12” blown-in cellulose. • All sheathing and roof decking are plywood—there is no oriented strand board (OSB). • Heating and hot water source is an oil-fired furnace which includes a hot water booster tank and 275 gallon oil tank. • 200 amp electric service with a 5000 watt back-up Honda generator that runs essential systems. • 150’-160’ well and submersible pump with output too high to measure and excellent quality water. • Water softening system. • DISH network TV system with HD receiver • Oil consumption is 900 gallons/year, $1200-$1400/year in electricity. • House is equipped with a whole house air-to-air exchanger system which, during cold weather, continually exchanges the air in the house with fresh outside air. Warm exhaust air heats cool incoming air.