House in Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301

Victoria Park, 15 N Victoria Park Rd

Superbly updated home designed for active living. Easy flowing indoor and outdoor living areas with wide rooms and high ceilings. Walls of French doors access a roofed terrace facing the huge pool, lushly landscaped gardens and lawn. The kitchen has ample areas for baking and chef's prep. Outdoors, the long bar faces a beverage center and adjacent second kitchen with a professional gas range. The master suite has a sunny office-sitting room, two generously sized walk-in closets and fabulous bath. On a large walled and gated lot, the house is perfectly located across from Victoria Park with access for paddle boarding and kayaking. Adjacent property at 1 N Victoria Park Road is also available. Properties may be combined to create a magnificent (nearly half acre) compound. See MLS# F10156861 The most recognizable icon of Victoria Park's Landmark Row. Meticulously renovated, this is an ideal home for someone who appreciates fine craftsmanship, collects and displays art, enjoys cooking, fine wine and entertaining, loves to swim, and seeks privacy and serenity when at home. Built for indoor and outdoor living the rooms flow easily from the formal entry to the relaxed, roofed outdoor kitchen and lanai overlooking the huge private yard and pool. Filled with show stoppers including reclaimed hardwood floors, high ceilings, a walk-in wine cellar, detailed mill work, locally forged wrought iron railings and a pressed coral fireplace. A fabulous master suite with office/sitting room and two walk-in closets. Impact rated windows and French doors. Across from the park blocks to Las Olas. Adjacent property at 1 N Victoria Park Road is also available. Properties may be combined to create a magnificent (nearly half acre) compound. See MLS# F10156861The massive front door is as unique and sturdy as the home, constructed of recycled rain forest wood and wrought iron hardware in Brazil, surrounded by coral stone pilasters and trim Newly installed beautiful solid wood floors throughout, are of rare quarter cut, old growth, river recovered Southern Yellow Pine, underlain with 2 layers of ply and a vapor barrier between the concrete sub floor and wood finished floor.Cut stone fireplace. Newer European made hurricane impact windows and doors throughout.Finishes are a custom Venetian Plaster walls, crown moldings, and ceilings on first floor (living, dining, office,), as well as the exterior walls in the covered outdoor patio.All mill work are custom profiles of painted poplar throughout (2 piece crown moldings, 2 piece baseboards, 3 piece door/window casings, built-in solid wood cabinets, closets, laundry, etc.). All interior doors are 6-panel solid wood doors. All windows and French doors are finished on the interior surface with solid wood laminates, to be consistent with the painted interior mill work.An enormous fireplace in the living room is adorned with a coral stone mantle and hearth. The Master bedroom suite has 2 separate large his and her walk-in closets, and a separate office/TV/sitting room which is adjacent to the main bedroom. This room can also serve as a nursery for young children The enormous Master bath has a marble tile shower and a large soaking pedestal tub, two pedestal sinks, and a separate toilet room.Master closets are generously sized at 48 square feet and 80 square feet.The Guest bedroom suite upstairs has a renovated full bath with limestone tile shower and floors A second office is located on the first floor, with custom built-in cabinets that is adjacent to a half bath powder room. This room can also serve as a third bedroom. The indoor Kitchens has appliances by Subzero, Bosch, Viking, Kitchen Aid, and Jenn Air; solid oak white cabinets, tile floors, and solid wood countertops. A custom built wine cellar, is fully insulated and temperature controlled with 450 bottle capacity, is supplanted with a 50 bottle under-counter plus wine fridge. For the demanding chef, the outdoor commercial kitchen/barbecue is equipped with a Viking 6-burner gas range/oven, Tomassi Brazilian rotisserie, a wood burning grill with stainless steel exhaust hood, a Green Egg grill/smoker, a U-Line under-counter refrigerator, granite countertops and stainless steel cabinets.The roofed outdoor kitchen, dining, and living areas have Travertine stone floors, Venetian Plaster walls, and Cypress pergola, beams, and ceiling – were all built in 2014. The swimming pool 40 feet by 20 feet and nine feet deep is surrounded by a new Travertine pool deck and an Ipe wood deck. Pool equipment includes a new filter, new variable speed pump, new salt chlorination system, and Polaris vacuum system with booster pump.The rear yard has an automatic insect/mosquito repellent system installed and maintained by Mr. Mosquito Mister.The 2 car garage is supplemented by a separate tool and storage room, newly added in 2012.The setting for this home is perfect, across from Victoria Park's gazebo park and only a short stroll to Las Olas cafes and shops. The beach is under two miles away and the airport is a fifteen minute drive.