This beautiful Victorian cottage exudes personality and crafted ornate detail; it dates to circa 1906. This cottage has just undergone a signature Laughing Sun renovation and is located just blocks from Kirkwood’s new $10 million dollar business district and is in short walking distance to bars and restaurants. This Kirkwood cottage boasts fantastic architectural pieces, soaring ceilings, luxurious amenities like a marble master bath, gorgeous custom built heart of pine kitchen with sumptuous granite countertops, and stained glass galore. It also has spacious sunny rooms, antique refinished oak floors, four stunning antique pine fireplaces with gorgeously restored mantels and antique glazed tiles, refinished heart of pine doors with jewel-like refinished door hardware, original restored windows, and a wonderful cottage garden. This cottage even has its own rare Victorian styled two-car garage behind the custom stockade fence. The garden has clearly evolved over the last century and features a mature fruiting fig tree, a golden delicious apple tree, day lilies, heirloom roses, irises, yucca, nandinia, dogwood trees, and lots of other flowers and shrubs.
Kirkwood Victorian Floor Plan
Kara O’ Brien Renovations restored this house to its former glory, while updating the property with all new systems (new plumbing, HVAC, electrical), completing extensive structural work and insulation, new roof and sheathing, a rebuilt front porch, and a large deck. We altered the floor plan to create a welcoming open entertainment home featuring a dream-inspiring master suite and lovely custom gourmet kitchen. The home is outfitted with both historic stained glass and custom designed stained glass pieces, octagonal cedar shingles, and decorative gingerbread. The front yard is encircled by a historic appropriate Victorian black metal fence. The final effect is a jewel set in a garden of flowers.
Kirkwood Kaleidoscope Victorian Virtual Tour
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This classic, dramatic black and white bathroom features a reclaimed stained glass transom...
...antique oak flooring, an antique medicine cabinet, and period style plumbing fixtures. The shower walls are a beautiful pattern of subway tile and black and white checkerboard, evocative of old Atlanta. The shower floor is tiled in a black and white marble checkerboard mosaic. The dusky historic blue paint in this room makes the monochromatic tile pop.
Front Bedroom
This large, sunny bedroom peers out on the cottage garden through...
...an originally located diamond shaped Queen Anne window. When we purchased the house the glass was missing, so we commissioned our stained glass artist to create a new piece for the space.
Gorgeously restored 6 panel doors with antique door hardware, a restored mantel with crackled antique fireplace tiles and cast iron surround, and refinished oak floors are some of the features of the bedroom. This bedroom also has a rare feature for a vintage house: double closets!
Master Suite
This large private suite is tucked off the rear of the house and is outfitted with an ornate heart of pine mantel with carved Corinthian columns, antique crackle fireplace tile, and a curved cast iron surround. Like the rest of the house, the master has beautiful antique crown molding, dramatic window and door moldings, and oak floors.
Master Bathroom
A spacious luxurious bathroom adjoins the master bedroom.
It boasts gorgeous marble tile, an extra deep tub, luxurious double shower heads, an antique medicine cabinet, and a late 1800s beveled glass transom, which sheds lots of light into the shower without compromising privacy. Off to the left hand side of the bathroom is a large walk-in closet.
A rare commodity in turn of the century neighborhoods, this home features a two car garage with Victorian styling and a concrete floors, and glass windows. We have restored the garage by installing a new roof and trimming it out with Victorian shingles to meld it to the style of the main house.
