This beautiful Victorian cottage exudes personality and crafted ornate detail; it dates to circa 1906. This cottage has just undergone a signature Laughing Sun renovation and is located just blocks from Kirkwood’s new $10 million dollar business district and is in short walking distance to bars and restaurants. This Kirkwood cottage boasts fantastic architectural pieces, soaring ceilings, luxurious amenities like a marble master bath, gorgeous custom built heart of pine kitchen with sumptuous granite countertops, and stained glass galore. It also has spacious sunny rooms, antique refinished oak floors, four stunning antique pine fireplaces with gorgeously restored mantels and antique glazed tiles, refinished heart of pine doors with jewel-like refinished door hardware, original restored windows, and a wonderful cottage garden. This cottage even has its own rare Victorian styled two-car garage behind the custom stockade fence. The garden has clearly evolved over the last century and features a mature fruiting fig tree, a golden delicious apple tree, day lilies, heirloom roses, irises, yucca, nandinia, dogwood trees, and lots of other flowers and shrubs.
Kirkwood Victorian Floor Plan
Kara O’ Brien Renovations restored this house to its former glory, while updating the property with all new systems (new plumbing, HVAC, electrical), completing extensive structural work and insulation, new roof and sheathing, a rebuilt front porch, and a large deck. We altered the floor plan to create a welcoming open entertainment home featuring a dream-inspiring master suite and lovely custom gourmet kitchen. The home is outfitted with both historic stained glass and custom designed stained glass pieces, octagonal cedar shingles, and decorative gingerbread. The front yard is encircled by a historic appropriate Victorian black metal fence. The final effect is a jewel set in a garden of flowers.
Kirkwood Kaleidoscope Victorian Virtual Tour
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This typical Southern front porch was inspired by detail-rich Victorian homes, and uses color to show off the architectural accents.
The blue gingerbread was custom cut with a jigsaw, based on an authentic piece that we salvaged.
he new front porch features classic decorative Eastlake Victorian handrails milled on site, octagonal cedar shingles in the gables, and reclaimed Victorian porch brackets supporting the eaves.
The custom-designed stained glass transom over the large window in the living room features the home's address numbers. The front door is a lovely restored Victorian piece inset with beveled glass. This is a porch where you can imagine kicking up your feet in a swing and enjoying the streetscape and a cold beverage.
Living Room
The living room is a large airy space...
...featuring a gorgeous opulently carved Victorian heart of pine mantel with colorful glazed antique fireplace tiles.
High ceilings, oak floors, the stained glass transom, and original restored doors will make visitors say "wow!"
The antique front door features beveled glass and a reproduction doorbell. The stunning moldings are indicative of the Victorian era: restored antique crown moldings grace the ceilings and antique fancy fluted casings and rosettes make every door and window a cause for celebration.
The living room flows effortless into the dining room.
This entertainment space is the largest room in the house.
It features an original restored heart of pine mantel, original 2 over 2 window, oak floors...
...restored antique chandelier, and fluted casing and bulls eyes. High wood wainscoting graces the walls. The dining room opens onto the stunning custom kitchen allowing for easy entertaining and providing the chef with social inclusion during gatherings. The dining room also has a rare but very convenient utility closet for storing coats, vacuum cleaners, or anything else that needs to be tucked away.
Kitchen
This gourmet custom kitchen tips its hat to a century past with the heart of pine cabinets milled from reclaimed structural beams, and re-purposed antique heart of pine porch columns used as legs for the breakfast bar. However, this kitchen is rich with the amenities and luxuries of a modern chef’s kitchen.
The cabinets are topped with lustrous verde butterfly granite and a tumbled jungle green marble backsplash.
Boasting high-end features such as flush inset doors, an undermount sink, granite countertops...
...stainless steel appliances,...
...and a large pantry cabinet, this kitchen reflects attention to minute detail. Antique style clasps hearken back to a farmhouse kitchen and a restored French door opens out onto a large entertainment deck and a lovely private backyard with fruit trees.
Public Bathroom
