Oregon Home | 43 The home has four bedrooms, including two suites on the top floor and a primary bedroom and additional suite on the main floor, as well as a total of five and a half bathrooms. Each room capitalizes on the views beyond. The primary bath includes a glass-surround shower and separate soaking tub set against wide windows. The home’s half bath and suite area currently serves as an extra bedroom for guests as well as a weight room but will eventually become a pool house. The main level’s open living space includes a dining table that can seat 10 and a lounge area with a wood-burning fireplace framed by floor-to-ceiling stone, as well as sliding doors leading to a large outdoor patio. In the open kitchen, two large cabinets frame a Wolf range and a large hood, and a farmhouse sink sits below a bank of windows. A large island offers space for food preparation, while an attached woodblock extension provides seating for four and great space for hosting friends for dinner and games. More seating is available at a nearby bar station. “When you entertain, everybody crowds to the kitchen,” says Wittren. “But when you have a big, long island, no one can talk to each other. It was important to us to have that gathering space.” Wittren jokes that the couple were nightmare clients because they lived in the old farmhouse as the new property was built — an uncommon arrangement that meant the couple was there throughout construction. “I run a mortgage team and Steve is a captain at an airline, and both of us are super-Type-A, know-it-all personalities, but the Renaissance team managed us beautifully,” Wittren says. Though Wittren and Burleson plan to age in place, the Renaissance Homes team helped them consider future buyers when designing their home. “We originally were a little bit smaller in square footage,” says Wittren. “As we talked with them about resale, they really made us think like who our buyer would be. So the team was instrumental in protecting our asset as well.” renaissance-homes.com
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