3110 Long Canyon Road, SANTA YNEZ, CA 93460
Description
Supplements: Integrated into the barn building is the 2 bedroom manager's cottage with fenced yard, patio, and covered parking. On both sides of the drive, and tastefully splashed across the property, are amazing custom stone-art installations, no two the same! Approaching the main house find an expansive and level, turf-covered open space for sports, playground, grand banquets, agility field, special events...or the perfect spot for your swimming pool. The grounds are filled with fascinating paths and trails which invite you to climb to ever higher views of the canyon, and they are peppered with arbors, landings, terraces, and garden "rooms" with unexpected touches everywhere, including creative pens and enclosures for small farm animals or pets. On arrival at the Main House, enter through the light-filled Sun Room surrounded with tall, view windows to bring the outdoors comfortably inside, and step through the scraped wood double doors to the cool, shady Foyer with a sparkling chrome light fixture overhead and soft edged stone tiles underfoot. The Great Room boasts plenty of room for a conversation or reading area, and a spacious open Kitchen with plenty of room for an island and counter stools. Wheat colored bead board finish covers the extensive pantries, cupboards and drawers creating vast storage in this large L-shaped Kitchen which has beveled granite countertops, and is appointed with deep stainless steel sink, and modern appliances such as oversized stovetop, large stainless steel over-under Amana refrigerator/freezer, and Whirlpool stainless steel double oven. The views from the kitchen window of palms, eucalyptus, and oaks on the nearby hills might make doing the dishes an actual pleasure! The quietly private Living Room adjoining both the Sunroom and the Great Room impresses first with its artistic hand crafted flooring of sandstone, river rock and pebbles, and offers a vaulted ceiling, bead board paneling as well as board-and-batten walls, built-in shelves, skylights, and a wonderful view window. The Master Bedroom, light and spacious, has two double closets filling one wall and fresh modern light fixtures. The adjacent Dressing Area - which opens onto a patio and has natural light on 3 sides - also offers an entire wall of closets, and space for a vanity, dressing mirror, and a luxuriously large ottoman in the center. The Master Bath showcases a stunning high-backed soaking tub with side-mounted spout and controls set into a dark marble tiled bench which coordinates with the lovely vanity topped with a white raised bowl-style sink. Clean modern fixtures, scraped wood cabinets, a handsome stone tiled floor, and a charming skylight create a distinct spa-like bath. The nearby Office also opens to the private patio, and has built in high-low shelving with room enough for a club chair, a desk and a credenza to make working from home practical and inviting. The Grand Room; far "greater" than the Great Room it adjoins is an intriguing, enormous single room whose structure is inspired by a traditional "raised monitor" style barn with its soaring central ceiling section, but has been interpreted with a modern industrial aesthetic featuring exposed metal ducts and vents, visible wood beams with heavy steel hardware, exposed light fixtures and halogen spotlights, upper rows of square windows for abundant natural light, and charcoal heather industrial carpet. A double-door front entry is accessed from the circular driveway, and greets with a grand scale Foyer. This unusual space invites creative and customized uses, possibly including an extended family "enclave" residential area, a private museum for the car, carriage, art, or motorcycle collector, a private home winery, an indoor sporting court or multi-recreation / game center, a full home gymnasium and spa, a private music, dance, performing arts, or film theatre or workshop, a grand studio for the sculptor, artist, or craftsman to finally have all the space they ever wanted! This area of the estate literally excites the imagination, as it was originally meant to do. The enchanting, oversized upstairs bedroom, accessed only by a cream colored spiral staircase at one end of the Grand Room and leading to an interior balcony of its own, is a veritable hidden tree house, with a vaulted ceiling, large windows on three sides at tree level, bright with sunlight, with its own white marble and tile bathroom including an Italian hand painted pottery sink, and an ample closet area filled with shelves and interior storage behind closet doors. A bright and enticing sky retreat indeed! The large private patio in textured concrete and stone is shaded by an industrial style steel beam structure, and features a winding brick pathway along its length, plus a flowing cascade down a steep boulder-lined hillside splashing into a koi pond at the patio level. A delightful and fully appointed guest studio has a private entrance off this patio and seems as if it were just finished, with its handsome slate floors, tall ceiling, a sleek, complete kitchen with Whirlpool Gold stainless steel appliances and attractive granite counter, and plenty of cabinetry in a pleasing natural finish. The cozy bedroom area is surrounded by generous closets, and opens onto a private deck, and the adjacent bath is a compact beauty with flanking storage closets, an elegant vanity, an inviting glass enclosed shower, and newer fixtures giving the whole a bright freshness. The guests will be properly impressed.