27 Ridgeway Ave, Pittsfield, MA 01201

Public Remarks: Pretty four-bedroom Cape in neighborhood of well-kept homes boasts an updated kitchen with newer appliances, hardwood floors, a large, bright living room with a brick fireplace, deep closets, fenced yard with glorious gardens and a big deck, a basement family room and one-car garage. A Weil-McLain furnace was installed in November 2006; the house has passive solar panels and replacement windows. The yard is beautifully landscaped with trees, flowering shrubs and perennial gardens. Plantings include peonies, forsythia, hydrangea bushes, wild rose bushes, arbor vitae, lilacs, a weeping crabapple tree, a large oak tree, an apple tree, forget-me-nots, daylilies, evening primroses, black-eyed Susans and a variety of hostas. For energy efficiency, passive solar panels supply the bulk of the hot water to the house during the summer to supplement the on-demand system of the Weil-McLain furnace, which was installed in November 2006. The previous owners used a wood-burning furnace still in place in the basement to heat the entire house. Replacement windows complete the picture to make this house "green."