This brand new home is located at 5312 Bradley Boulevard in Bethesda, MD. It is a LEED Certified home. LEED stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design. The 6,751 square foot home boasts 5 bedrooms, 6.5 bathrooms, spacious floor plan, formal living and dining rooms, fabulous gourmet kitchen that opens up to a family room, home office, doubled side fireplace in living room, 2nd floor loft, stone patio, outdoor BBQ area and a lovely detached 480 square foot guest house. It is listed at $3,495,000. I think the interior of this home is outstanding. It’s quaint and feels homey. Not too big, not too small. I think the interior decorator did a great job. I also really love the detached quest house. It looks like a little cottage!
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Gorgeously designed home, and being green is definitely a plus. Great location, and love that small guest cottage. All around, it’s a pretty great home at a decent price.
I don’t like the front, but the inside is quite nice. It’s traditional without being stodgy. Whoever staged it did a very good job. The details are nice but kept simple and I like some of the modern touches. I really like the fireplace between the living room and the study. It’s definitely comfortable looking and looks like a house people can actually live in. I like the flagstone terrace in the back but it doesn’t look overly private. There is some furniture rearranging I would do (like moving the chairs in the master BR over to the fireplace instead of next to the bed) but otherwise I could pretty much move right in. the LEED certification is definitely a bonus.
a lot of bethesda houses are like this. very traditional interior, with perfect contemporary accents where necessary (like the kitchen). the location is perfect. nice build/construction quality. nice landscaping. nice price. this is real classy living.
6700ish sq ft: over 3 times bigger than the average house, but designed to look like a normal, non-ostentatious house.
I like this house…it is nice, gorgeous, but not pretentious!
Agree with all above. Great house, nicely decorated.
Only bummer is the lack of privacy at the back.
Very nice house, very livable.
The guest house is very nice also.
Every man’s dream to get away from the wife and kids and still be at home. lol
LEED certification definitely a plus.
I don’t like it. It screams HGTV or Nate Berkus. Definitely not my style. It seems extremely boring for $3.5 million. The furnishings are boring, the architecture is boring, almost everything is boring. The only thing I can find that I like is the red kitchen island. The guest house is cute. LEED certified? Let me drive my Prius through the front door of this craptacular home.
Does it have a place to plug in my electric car? Also for 3 and a half mil, I expect something special, not something plain.
Yes George, it does.
Believe it or not garages have electrical outlets.
I know I know, it is shocking, but they really do…
I don’t think you got what I ment
It seems I’m on the opposite end of the spectrum, but can you (or someone else) explain to me how opulence, gilt, crystal, etc. somehow makes a home UNinviting. I’ve heard this argument time and time again on this blog and I really cannot wrap my head around it. Do the gold gilt couches in some homes sprout thorns as soon as someone tries to sit on them? Is it a requirement for a home to have casual furnishings to be comfortable, much in the same way casual clothing typically means comfort? Can’t someone be just as comfortable in a tux? I’m not saying anyone is right or wrong, but I REALLY want to how a crazy opulent home (such as Fleur De Lys) is any less livable than this home. Is it the perception that all the marble and gold someone equates to untouchable? Would any of you be uncomfortable in a home like that? I sure as heck wouldn’t, and in fact would find it *more* inviting than this home.
I look at it as an owner should have exactly what he/she wants, and what makes them happy. If that’s a Cape Cod style with canvas sofa fabric and rustic wood tables, great. If that’s Louis XIV to the Nth degree, also great. My point was not that a house is uninviting if it is gilded and primped, it’s that a house doesn’t NEED to be gilded and primped in order to be a nice, luxurious, and expensive house. If a person finds opulent surroundings comfortable, that house will be inviting to him/her. I have seen many opulent houses that I simply love. That doesn’t mean I want to live in them, but I know that people do. At the same time, a house that is casual can still be worth just as much as the gilded house. Casualness and price don’t have to be inversely proportional.