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1938 Bungalow in Myers Park for Sale

215 Brandywine Road, Charlotte, NC 28209 - $514,900

This charming home is fabulously updated and is ready for you to move in!

We were transferred in 2003 to Charlotte, NC from Atlanta - where we had a terrific house in Virginia-Highlands with a walking lifestyle; restaurants, art galleries, parks and shady streets, even a bakery with fresh french bread and cheeses less than a 10 minute walk from our house. We were not sure that we would be able to find a location with the same charm and variety of activities -

Instead we found this house with even more things to do, and even better services than we had in intown Atlanta. We have loved living in this house! Great neighbors, a wonderful location, and a charming home with a yard that is just right.

We've put a lot of ourselves into the renovations, and we had another round of work scheduled for this year, but life sometimes takes an alternate path and now we are moving to the Raleigh area. Please take a look at some of the features of our home and consider the advantages of becoming a 'intown' Charlottean...

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Major Attractions of this House

Great location - short, stressless three mile commute into Uptown Charlotte - if you want to support public transit there are two bus lines you can catch while leaving the car at the house
Great location - easy five minute drive to Southpark, central location makes it easy to access all of South Charlotte.
Great bones - 1938 Bungalow with nine foot ceilings on main floor, original narrow oak floors, crown molding
Easy walking distance to many restaurants, shops, movie theaters, a grocery store, even an independent bookstore, and one of the three best hardware stores in Charlotte
Large, shady intown lot with huge mature oak trees, sidewalks, and lots of quiet streets for evening walks
Fantastic kitchen with cherry cabinets and stainless appliances, with a modern layout designed by the architect-owner
Good floorplan for circulation - you can get to almost all of the rooms on the main floor from two directions
The Little Sugar Creek greenway, part of Charlotte's growing network of parks and trails, is just down the hill. Today it connects to Freedom Park, but eventually it will extend North of Uptown and down to South Carolina
A working basement (pretty rare in Charlotte) with a large laundry area and a separate hobby room
Plenty of garage space, not usually seen in these neighborhoods in these older bungalows. Another legacy of the architect-owner, the large two-car garage in back is also set up as ideal shop space with a 100 amp breaker service, windows on two walls for plenty of natural light, and extensive attic storage with pull-down ladder access
Room for improvements - we've already re-worked the main bathroom and replaced all the 'popcorn' ceilings, but removing the aluminum siding was next on the list - an easy project with instant curb-appeal improvement for the next owner
Great neighbors
Did we mention the great location?

Large Office with Built-ins

Home Office on Main Floor
Plenty of space for two work areas
Custom adjustable shelves for large collections

Fantastic Kitchen

Chef’s kitchen with custom cherry cabinets is the heart of this house, featuring stainless steel appliances and granite counter tops. Viking oven and 5-burner cooktop flanked with counters and storage in easy reach. Ultra-quiet Bosch dishwasher with hidden controls, and extra deep stainless sink with Grohe pull-down faucet and electric disposal make cleanup easy. Matching work island on large casters makes for plenty of space for multiple tasks.

This kitchen has beautiful custom lighting, controlled through four switchable circuits, plus there is more dimmable lighting in the GE Monogram stainless hood (with outside venting and variable speeds with auto-off timers). There is also a designer ceiling fan with speed controller and recessed JBL speakers driven from remote jacks in the living room.

Dining Room with Decorative Archways

Dining Room arched doorway from Living Room

This bright and happy room is a great place for the morning paper or an intimate dinner party...

Living Room with Fireplace

Living Room Fireplace Warm and sunny living room with fireplace welcomes visitors into this house. Nine foot ceilings and vintage crown molding give the room a sense of space and scale. Original 1930s detailing and tile surround the working fireplace with glass doors. Back of fireplace is pre-plumbed for gas logs.

With five doorways, this room has excellent flow to the rest of the home.

Main Floor Bathroom

Main Bath - Barrel Vaulted ceiling Main bath is completely renovated with a beautiful barrel-vaulted ceiling and indirect lighting. Dimmer-contolled sconce lighting above the custom vanity with granite top and Grohe faucet. Toto toilet. Hex floor tile is original to the home. Electronic timer for exhaust fan above window will turn off automatically after 5/15/30 minutes, or run continuously.
Main Bath - Oversize Adjustable Shower Head

Main Bath - Barrel Vaulted ceiling Main Bath - Custom Vanity

Main Floor Rear Bedroom

Rear Bedroom - Saltwater Reef Tank The rear bedroom on main floor is a generous size with plenty of light and direct access to the rear patio via large double french doors. This room currently used as a family room and houses our eight foot wide saltwater reef tank.
Rear Bedroom - French doors open to Brick Patio

Master Suite on 2nd floor with a sitting area and full bath

Huge Master Bedroom on second floor with built-in storage and custom closets

Charming Craftsman-style Master Bathroom and relaxing seating area with view of the backyard

Beautifully Landscaped Private Backyard with Brick Patio

A beautiful yard with huge mature oak trees, plus an oversized 2-car garage with great shop area and storage space.

More on Myers Park

What's so great about Myers Park?

Myers Park Neighborhood Charlotte was a pretty small city in the early 20th century, and does not have very many 'streetcar neighborhoods' from that era. The principal remaining close-in areas with early 20th century architecture and compact walking layouts are Dilworth, Elizabeth, Fourth Ward (inside the 277 loop), Eastover, and Myers Park.

With a limited supply of these neighborhoods, and a lot of people moving into Charlotte looking for homes with a mix of services and easy access, prices have risen dramatically over the past ten years.

Myers Park, a community dating back to 1911, was planned with looping roads to provide easy access to a trolley line into uptown Charlotte. Today most of it is a National Historic District noted for a mix of housing, churches, and services, for Queens College, and for the huge oak trees that shade the sidewalks and streets. Myers Park has cachet and resonance for Charlotte residents, it carries a load of positive images when you tell someone you live in the neighborhood. It is also home to arguably the most sought-after schools in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg system. 215 Brandywine Road is four blocks from the Myers Park High School/Alexander Middle School campus, and our elementary school is the Park Raod Montessori School, 7 blocks away.

More on Myers Park here: http://www.mpha.com/myers_park_history.htm

Brandywine Road Trees, 215 Brandywine on Left

Great House for Projects

If you are a serious hobbyist, you will not find a better house in a close-in Charlotte neighborhood. Detached garage has serious wiring, lots of control for lighting inside and out, even three ceiling fans for warm days! Windows on two walls provide ample natural light for day projects.

For even more hobby space, the house has a partial basement - over 500 square feet - with a large laundry room and a workroom the same size as the living room. (All the scary fishtank life support systems will unbolt and be wisked away when we move the 300 gallon saltwater reef tank in the back bedroom).

We've already run plumbing and power for two different washer/dryer locations (and vents!). The workroom makes a terrific hobby room, or it could be used for an exercise room, or even built out for a small home theater. The fireplace in the workroom does not have a working flue, but it would be ideal for one of the modern ventless heater styles. Both rooms in the basement have heating and cooling vents.

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You can schedule an appointment through our Realtor, Robert Dulin...

Robert Dulin, Keller Williams Realty
http://www.robertdulin.com/
704-661-3173 | Fax: 704-602-0348
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