On the Market: A Post-and-Beam Oasis in Inman Square
This single-family's compact yard includes a bluestone patio, electric car charging station, and built-in bike rack on the back deck.
Photo via Gibson Sotheby’s International Realty
7 Murdock St., Cambridge
Price: $1,649,000
Size: 1,738 square feet
Bedrooms: 3
Baths: 3
You might think you’d need a particularly cavernous single-family to have space for a home office, gym, three bedrooms, a reading loft, and an open living area—but this cute Cambridge home makes room for it all in under 2,000 square feet. Douglas fir timbers appear throughout the post-and-beam style hideaway, and do a nice job of sectioning off the lounge area, with its wood-burning fireplace, from the dining area, which glows with a multi-globe chandelier from Schoolhouse Electric. Over in the kitchen, a soapstone island, glass-front cabinetry, and subway tiling gather around a hip, bright white Bertazzoni gas range.
While cathedral ceilings and high, half moon windows grace both bedrooms on the second floor, one of them is extra spacious. And it comes with a bonus nook: Climb up a sliding library ladder to hang out in a wooden-ceilinged loft. A few built-in bookshelves make it an ideal reading alcove, or you can use it as a tucked-away office space.
The basement level forgoes wooden beams for pale hardwood floors and all-white walls, and carves out space for a personal fitness center and a third bedroom with an ensuite bath. Outside, instead of small patch of grass to mow, the yard offers a shady bluestone patio to sit out on. To top it off, a two-car driveway with an electric car charger and a built-in bike rack on the back patio provide a couple of environmentally-friendly ways to travel around Inman Square and into the rest of the city.
For information, contact Lara Gordon Caralis, Gibson Sotheby’s International Realty, gibsonsothebysrealty.com.
Photo via Gibson Sotheby’s International Realty
Photo via Gibson Sotheby’s International Realty
Photo via Gibson Sotheby’s International Realty
Photo via Gibson Sotheby’s International Realty
Photo via Gibson Sotheby’s International Realty
Photo via Gibson Sotheby’s International Realty
Photo via Gibson Sotheby’s International Realty
Photo via Gibson Sotheby’s International Realty
Photo via Gibson Sotheby’s International Realty
Photo via Gibson Sotheby’s International Realty
Photo via Gibson Sotheby’s International Realty
Photo via Gibson Sotheby’s International Realty
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