hi everyone my name is ken welcome to this house
today we are in the cabiny neighborhood of st louis missouri exploring an eclectic home
built in the year 1900. let's take a quick peek around outside and then let's go check it out
we've just walked in the front door and we are now in the stair hall so let's take a moment to
look at some of these features come over here and let's just look at how this front door is laid out
with two rounded windows off to the side of the rounded front door
now this does have some of its original hardware we can look down here
now bringing our focus back down let's turn around and look at the staircase so we can see how it use
up to the second floor and before we go check all of that out let's just see some of the attention
to detail here such as the laurel motif on the newel post and this is all original to the house
and as we travel around this house we'll notice that it has had some modern upgrades
while still paying homage too and preserving the historical details that remained in the house
such as the picture rail that surrounds the space the oversized baseboards and the more modern
elements include the newer floors and the chandelier now that we've seen the stair
hall let's check out the living room so come on through here and immediately the space starts to
really open up there are oversized beams on the ceiling that soar overhead as well as a modern
light fixture and as we bring our focus back down we can see an encasement where a fireplace would
have been originally and turning around we can also see the original encasements for the windows
however there are newer windows in here now something really interesting we can check out
the leaded glass that sits over here in this oversized shelf and just so you can all see
um i can not actually reach the windows here so this is probably about three feet deep
passing out of the living room we're going to cut back to the stair hall
and this is going to take us into the dining room so first we are greeted
by these two oversized columns which kind of helped to delineate the space between
the foyer and the dining room so come on in here and let's start taking a look around
this room gets a ton of natural light we can see that there's
even a small window here that looks out onto the stoop by the front door
and then there are two larger windows which look out onto the street and onto the side of the house
now of course this space has been mostly remodeled we can see that there are can lights up above here
and this allows a lot more light to penetrate the space now something really interesting
and of course there's a beautiful kitchen right behind me we'll get to that in just a moment but
something that's just so profound in this house there is a rounded leaded glass door here with
leaded glass transoms above it and the ingenuity of this piece is something that we just don't see
in newer construction so let's take a closer look at this and then we'll explore the hearth room
opening these rounded doors will now take us into the hearth room now if we look down to where i'm
stepping there is an octagonal threshold piece here that's made out of three pieces of wood
at different angles and there's also a step down which brings us down into the actual hearth room
so let's just look around here there is a side entrance that takes us out to the side terrace
and directly in front of me is a modern fireplace and of course these are all newer floors in here
there's even a small faucet and over here is a pass through to the kitchen
coming back from the hearth room we're now going to travel into the kitchen so
come on through here we can see that there are brand new shaker cabinets
high-end countertops high-end appliances as well as a geometric backsplash that comes down
over the range so let's just take a moment to look around this and then we'll move on
before we move on from the kitchen there is a niche at the very end that has diamond pane
leaded windows which are original to the house so we can just see this real fast and then
we can continue down this hallway so now we will notice that there are sliding barn doors
so if we open up the first one this takes us into the first floor bedroom so let's
go check this out and this bedroom still maintains its original oversized baseboards
though it has been mostly updated with new floors new closet doors
electrical fixtures now if we pass through here this brings us into the modernized bathroom
directly across from this bedroom is a full bathroom
so we can go ahead and slide back the barn door and just take a peek inside of here
continuing down this way through the hallway we now come to a node at the back corner of the house
so this store will take us outside to the backyard so let's just peek our heads out there real fast
there's an oversized two guard garage there are mature trees and
there's a lot of space where you can imagine your children running around
now coming back inside we can continue looping around at the exterior corner of this house
there is a door off to this side and this is the main staircase so we can go ahead and open
this up and just take a peek up here and of course we're going to use the grand staircase
so let's come back down and continue making a loop around this house
and this will take us into the laundry room that i mentioned off of the living room earlier
so let's just take a quick peek around here
now that we've seen the entire first floor let's cut back to the living room go through
the double french doors and head upstairs so this is how we get there let's go on up
arriving at the top of the stairs this brings us to a landing and this space is actually pretty
open so one of the just most amazing features that's up here is this bay window there are three
different motifs in the stained glass we have drama masks on either side and then we have a pink
flamingo directly in the center the first room that we'll see is right at the top of the stairs
so come on through here and we can see all of the original woodwork in this room as well as the
original brick fireplace which has been painted it has dental molding along the top and terracotta
and in the corner of this room are built in bookcases
and we can just take a moment to appreciate these as also being historic and original to the house
now cutting to the other corner of the room we're going to pass by the dormer window that
looks out over the front of the house and then we're going to arrive at the turret that we saw
on the corner of the home out front so of course this has crests in all of its leaded stained glass
there's a more modern chandelier that hangs from the center of the space and then we can see all of
the original wood trim surround it crossing out of this bedroom we're going to cut across the
stair hall again and now we're going to reveal the second bedroom behind the sliding barn door
and this room has a ton of windows we can see all of the natural light that floods into the space
and then there are two smaller closets with window bench storage
coming out of this bedroom we're now going to go deeper into the stair hall
so we can reveal another full bathroom behind this sliding barn door
coming around the corner we now open up the other sliding door and this lets us into the owner's
suite now this is the largest bedroom up here on the second floor there are three windows that
are evenly spaced that look out over the beautiful backyard now of course this room has been somewhat
modernized it still has its original window encasement trim as well as its original door
encasement trim now behind me are a set of french doors and this will take us into the modernized
bathroom so let's just take a peek in here and then we'll go explore the rest of this floor
now coming out of the owner's suite we are going to head down the hall this way and we're going to
see the rest of this home so come on through here and watch your step this is the main staircase
where it goes down to the first floor and over this way is the final bedroom that we'll see
of course this room is the smallest you could imagine that perhaps this was originally a nursery
now it does have a transom window above this door to allow for better ventilation and something
just really amazing check out the shape of this door that goes to the closet and this closet is
really large we can see that it goes in here and then slopes with the pitch of the mansard roof
before we leave i want to take a moment to give a huge shout out to kara anderson of
hybrid real estate for opening the doors here and allowing us to film
now she is heavily involved in this community as it goes through a transformative process
thank you all for joining me on this tour i really hope that you enjoyed
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