520 Academy Hl, Red Hook, NY 12571

This home is all about open space, natural light, and including nature in everyday life. A recent renovation and addition focused on enhancing those concepts while combining thoughtful, purposeful design and luxury details. An open-plan layout for the main living areas of the home, living room, dining room, sitting/media room and kitchen, embraces today's lifestyle of enjoying being home and minimizing the space we need to do that. This area has vaulted ceilings adding to the spaciousness and natural light floods this space. The most definitive feature of this space is a movable wall of glass, shared by the living room, dining area and opens out to a blue stone patio. The wall of glass creates a seamless flow from nature and it allows for viewing of the woodlands, open lawn areas and tranquil pond. It also allows for easy entertaining both indoors and out. A wood burning fireplace shared between the two spaces for added atmosphere and warmth during the colder months. The kitchen is stunning. The sleek design and abundance of counter surface from a center island, allows for efficient meal prep for a house full or dinner for two. If cooking is your passion, there are eight burners. The new Wolf range has four burners, a grill, convection/gas oven and coordinating hood. There are four addition burners on the induction cooktop in the island. The full door refrigerator/freezer is prized appliance. A walk-in pantry with a computer station will help keep this beautiful space clutter free. Enter into the master suite through french doors in a wall made of iron and glass. The master bathroom has a 54' round MTI soaking tub, walk-in steam shower with digital temp control, touchless, lighted toilet, bidet and a walk-in closet. There is much more to this home. The lighting on inside this home was designed to enhance daytime essentials through well placed fixtures and flush mounts. The lighting on the exterior was created for not only necessity but to enhance the architecture at all hours of the day. The exterior siding is clear cedar tongue and groove stained an eye pleasing gray. The roof on both the house and garage is standing seam metal in charcoal gray. The home itself is on 3.12 acres. Included in this sale is an adjoining 10.28 acres fully engineered and approved for a 4 bedroom house.The two combined lots total the 13.92 acres.(Taxes & assessed value for the 2 properties are combined). Easy access to the Taconic State Pkwy, less than a 2 hours' drive to NYC,EQUIPMENT:Carbon Monoxide Detector,Smoke Detectors,Water Filter,ExteriorFeatures:Landscaped,Below Grnd Sq Feet:840,Level 1 Desc:FOYER, LR, DR, SITTING RM, KIT, PANTRY, M.SUITE, BDRM,BATH,FLOORING:Concrete,Tile,Wood,AboveGrade:2640,OTHERROOMS:Family Room,Pantry,Great Room,Laundry/Util. Room,Rec/Play Room,Foyer,FOUNDATION:Block,ROOF:Metal,InteriorFeatures:French Doors,Sliding Glass Doors,Walk-In Closets,Basement:Interior Access