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Outstanding home with outstanding price
1739 Acorn Ridge Road
Welcome home! That’s how you’ll feel when you walk into this well maintained home. There are vaulted ceilings, an impressive ensuite for the master bedroom and a sunroom that will become your favorite room in the house. The outside has something for everyone. From the secluded patio off the sunroom, to the deck that’s just right for outdoor dining – and don’t miss the covered grill area.
The storage building offers lots of space and can double as a “man cave.” Once your friends find out about this gem, they’ll be visiting all the time. Priced to fit in nicely within your budget – at $128,900. Oh, by the way, this home is USDA eligible. Call Kathy Akers today for your private showing or for more information about this gem in the desirable Bunn Farm neighborhood.
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Outside view of sunroom.
A rocking chair front porch.
The sunroom will be your favorite room.
Right at Home: Tips for living in a small space mean no space,” Klinkert says. Buy furniture that’s multifunctional, he advises: storage cubes For many young people, a first that also work as coffee tables, or apartment might be a cramped in the stairs. Was it claustrophoa dining table that offers storage, studio or just a bedroom in a bic? A little, but worth it, she so it can be used as a workspace. shared living arrangement. Jugsays. (www.ikea.com ) gling that room’s living, dining “While it’s nice to be able to sit Bookcases can be clunky and and sleeping spaces requires up in bed, it’s even nicer to have cumbersome. Consider floating creativity. room for a couch, media center bookshelves that take advantage Take Meg Volk, a New Yorkand side table.” of wall space without taking up based producer and photographer IKEA has embraced this mofloor space. who at 22 is a seasoned veteran bile-renter demographic with its IKEA’s Lack wall shelves come of the tiny-home trenches: She’s P.S. collections. Now eight years in a variety of colors, and there’s on her third, under-300-squarerunning, the collections feature also a corner shelving unit in the foot studio apartment. pieces that are portable and inP.S. 2014 collection that would Find vertical space; think small expensive but well-designed. The maximize a dead space. and light; and when in doubt, do Havet sofas have wheels; a stool Check out Umbra’s clever Conwithout, she advises. has an embedded LED lamp. ceal wall shelves that give you “In my first solo studio apartPeter Klinkert heads the a steel bar on which to anchor ment, I had about 200 square feet retailer’s Special Collections. He a hardcover book; stack a few and the option of a twin-size bed says this year’s 50 pieces came more, or add a small accessory, or a futon,” she says. But she was out of collaborations between for a neat combination of wall lucky enough to have 10-foot ceil- young international designers and storage and art. (www.umbra. ings. She built a sleeping loft with the IKEA in-house team. a porthole entrance and storage “Small space doesn’t always See TIPS, 2C By KIM COOK
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This lamp stool from IKEA features a stool embedded with an LED light. A great item for a studio, small living room or bedside.
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