House of the week: A custom-built four-bedroom house in Bucks County for $799,999
The current owner has lived there for 35 years and updated the kitchen five years ago.
Joann Spatola and her then-husband were living in a Horsham townhouse in 1990 when builder Nicholas Braccia came to them with a proposition.
He knew of a vacant piece of land near the Chalfont pizzeria the couple owned that would be the perfect place for a contemporary home they could help design.
“We’d only been married two years, and we wanted something of our own,” she said. So she and Braccia went over blueprints and basically designed the house together.
She has spent 35 years in the four-bedroom, 3½-bathroom home.
But she is single now, and her kids are grown, so she is ready to downsize to an over-55 community in North Wales.
The house “has good bones,” she said. “They don’t make them like that any more.”
And she is particularly sad to lose the kitchen she helped design five years ago, with its quartz countertops and stainless steel appliances. “But it’s too much upkeep for me,” she said.
The house has 2,671 square feet and is three stories, including the finished basement, which has been used as a home gym and includes a half bathroom.
The first floor has two bedrooms, a great room with a vaulted ceiling, the kitchen and dining room, and a full bathroom.
The second floor has the primary bedroom and bathroom, with the main closet in the bathroom, as well as a double-bowl vanity and sunken bath tub. There is another bedroom and bathroom on this floor. And there is a walkout attic.
The deck overlooks a large, landscaped yard with a gazebo.
All mechanicals have been updated.
The house is close to parks, schools, and shopping. It is in the Central Bucks West School District.
It is listed by David Dupell of Coldwell Banker Realty for $799,999.