8821 S Vignes Rd, Baton Rouge, LA 70817

DREAM HOME with 3.13 acres. An estate sale of custom-built home in a beautifully landscaped and wooded rural setting with room for horses, but close to Highlan dRd. Home boasts exceptional woodwork, brick floors, lovely den with wood-burning fireplace & massive handhwen beams in the ceiling, great open kitchen/dining/keeping area with wall of windows overlooking Koi pond and covered porch, gigantic pantry, new wall oven, 6-burner cooktop, Sub-Zero refrigerator, beautiful neatural cypress cabinets and island, cultured marble countertops, built-in China cabinet with glass doors & special lighting. These actually are two master suites and an abundance of storage downstairs, and a third bedroom upstairs. Outside you'll have lots of mature hardwood trees including some beautiful live oaks, fruit trees, shrubs an flowers, a wishing well in the side yard and the Koi pond at the rear porch, big satellite dish, RV garage big enough for anything you'd want to park in it, and enough open area left that your horse won't feel cooped up. The woodwork in this home is impressive and expensive, fine woods like select cypress, fir and mahogany. Some special features include the sunken den with the back porch just through a set of French doors, the large master suite with its bay window and window seat and French doors leading to a fenced-in yard, the Jacuzzi in one suite and the clawfoot tub in the other, the marvelous custom-built oak spiral stairway up to Bedroom 3, and the beaded ceiling over the front foyer and the keeping area. The updated kitchen and adjacent keeping area could be the center of activity in this home, but important gatherings are for the 27' x 21' den with its impressive woodwork, the handhwen beams in the ceiling, brick paver floor and the big brick fireplace with its marble hearth. Two vents for Franklin stoves - one in the large master bedroom, the other in the keeping area - are just waiting for the stoves.