Trenton Stories: Beauty of a house in Carrying Place - across the street from the Bay of Quinte!

Can you guess the price? It's over 3200 square feet, 4 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, huge indoor sundeck, inground pool, lush perennial gardens, double garage, 150 x 146 foot lot, fireplace, modern kitchen and bathrooms (2 ensuite), view of the Bay of Quinte from the sunroom, central air, main floor laundry, and even a beautiful sounding address!

Did you guess? Alrighty then. Did you guess $389,900? Yes, that's right! It's under 400,000!
Taxes $3240/yr.

Why oh why do people still want a house in Toronto?!

Here's the listing:

6 Carriage Lane

I went to the open house today and was absolutely blown away. The pictures just don't do this house justice, to use a time-worn phrase. Inside and out, it was sheer perfection! And....there was an offer in on it, which happened just an hour before the open house. I looked around the property and house with a heavy heart, knowing that now it could never be mine (because the new owners would be crazy to leave it)!

The mature and gorgeous perennial gardens alone would cost tens of thousands of dollars to put in if you started from scratch. Same with the stonework patio and the area around the pool. It is truly a garden of Eden!

Country quiet, the bay right there, yet the feel of a lovely neighborhood of houses spaced wide apart. The expansive lawn on both sides and in front of the house was green and lovely and made a picture postcard bucolic setting for the home.

The present owners' beautiful calico cat inside completed the picture. She greeted me and then jumped on a couch, curling her body against the sofa cushions.

That the owners had decorated the inside so appealingly - they have very good taste - and updated all the bathrooms, kitchen, and most of the inside, made it possible to imagine yourself living there (which I have been doing ever since I left the house!).

Only 10 minutes from our home in Quinte West, but definitely "in the country", the drive to the 401 from Carriage Lane is about 8-10 minutes too, just far enough out that one can enjoy its pastoral ambience, yet get to other places relatively easily. The folks who are buying the house are lucky indeed!