Under the Spell of Overstreet - Page 2

"You just feel like you're in another country when you're there. You feel like you're in Bali or something," she said almost dreamily. "Every room has a view."

In its first 15 years after construction, this remarkable, redwood-paneled house was featured in myriad prominent publications, including like the New York Times and Sunset magazine.

"Architects, designers, [they] love this house," relates Goldman, who has also shown it to a number of realtors in recent weeks. "When they see it, agents, they say, 'thank you!'"

The views are also striking from a covered, gazebo-like deck that the owners enlarged.

"It's like it hangs over the garden. It's beautiful," she said of the deck, which also overlooks a fully refurbished Koi pond. Other recent improvements include new underground utilities and sewer line; double-paned Marvin windows and doors; and lowering of the driveway's steep grade.

"It's very cozy. You don't feel like you're rambling around in a big house," promised the realtor.

Goldman admits that the house failed to attract a buyer over several weeks in March or in a six-week trial listing last fall. She maintains that this has been "less about price" and more about the house's uniqueness.

"It's one of those houses, it's not going to work for everyone," she said of its stylized design. "It's going to take a particular person."

Just like the particular person who designed and lived in the house its first two decades.

"He is an architect's architect," Goldman commented of Robert Overstreet and his labor of love. "I just think it's one of a kind."

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