Architectural Digest Cherished This Charleston Charmer and Its Glam Interiors—So Can You for $8.5M

A stately home showcased by Architectural Digest for its attractive decor is on the market in Charleston, SC.

The brick Colonial dates again to the Forties, however in 2012, the unique proprietor’s granddaughter rebuilt and expanded the construction throughout greater than two years of development.

Then, the house underwent an inside overhaul in 2020 with designer Angie Hranowsky, after the present sellers purchased it in 2018 for $5,025,000.

The redesign “included a brand new kitchen, refinishing the flooring to a lighter colour, customized draperies, and wallpaper,” says itemizing agent Middleton Rutledge, with Daniel Ravenel Sotheby’s Worldwide Realty. “The vendor and inside designer labored collectively to actually make each room its personal house, in fashion and design.”

The general design caught the eye of Architectural Digest, which featured the home in a December 2022 web-exclusive home tour.

Eye-popping interiors

The result’s a five-bedroom, 4.5-bath property listed for $8.5 million.

“It’s kind of a U-shaped house that flows very well,” explains Rutledge.  “Quite a lot of properties listed here are coastal design and coastal cottage fashion; and this one is extra up to date, and that’s what separates it.”

Many of the dwelling areas within the 7,254-square-foot dwelling are in a single wing, whereas the remaining rooms are on the alternative facet. A reflecting pool and courtyard are located between the 2 wings.

“You’ve bought stunning areas on the within after which floor-to-ceiling home windows all around the first ground, so that you’re capable of benefit from the outdoors whereas dwelling inside,” Rutledge says.

In accordance with the itemizing agent, the house is sort of flawless.

“Very first thing I assumed after I went by it was, I can’t discover one factor I don’t like about it,” Rutledge says. “All the pieces you’ll need or suppose you’ll need in a luxurious house, it has it. The entire particulars are mapped out.”

He says all the rooms are proportional to one another, with no room being too massive or small.

“The extent of end and all the facilities it gives are virtually perfection,” he notes.

A kind of facilities is a customized wine room that the vendor added. The spectacular cupboard space holds 4,000 bottles and consists of temperature controls and customized lighting.

Gracious grounds

The house sits on virtually an acre, on a double lot in what was one in all Charleston’s first suburbs—simply throughout the Ashley River from historic downtown Charleston.

The mature landscaping gives numerous privateness, including to the property’s enchantment. Together with a pool, there are two cabanas. And the grounds embrace bluestone walkways, the place you possibly can take within the mature oaks, shrubs, and different indigenous bushes that create “picturesque privateness,” the itemizing notes.

“The anchor of the out of doors house might be a few 200-year-old crimson oak that sits proper outdoors the window in the midst of the backyard,” Rutledge explains. “After they designed the home, that was an current tree, they usually knew they weren’t going to take it down. So that they designed round it.”

As for the house’s subsequent chapter, the right purchaser “is somebody who has refined style, desires out of doors house, and desires shut proximity to all Charleston has to supply,” Rutledge says.