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Among the lavish array of homes created in Castle Pines Village, works by Steve Pott of Summit Chalet Homes have a provincial-alpine look that fit the setting to a tee, blending in with the rocks and ponderosa pines, and the memorable views. Right after the game today you can come see one of the nicest he ever rendered there – a six-bedroom, eight-bath creation for a 1.26-acre site, where the buyers told him, ‘We want a mountain house that isn’t in the mountains.”
“Summit Chalet was always one of the best known for its quality,” Scott Matthias of RE/MAX Professionals told me during a walk-through of what you’ll see after the Bronco game today. His sellers recall meeting with Pott and telling him they wanted the mountains, “without driving up I-70.” He showed them the home site, and how he would work in the views of Pikes Peak, then rendered an extra-lush alpine interior that’s flush with stonework and knotty alder, set against hand-troweled walls with lots of nooks and crannies (including a secret kids-room behind one of their closets). The home site with lots of rocks, pines and terrain, invited multi-tiered outdoor living spaces, that tumble down a waterfall, to a hot tub level, and beyond that to a firepit, with views of the Castle Rock and Rampart Range. You’re going to see elaborate wall finishes, a very strong kitchen centered around a stone vent-hood mantel for the 6-burner Wolf range; and an endlessly inviting walkout level that starts with an eye-catching wine cellar, moves past a library, an office with great views, to a particularly inviting theater. Matthias, president this year of the Colorado Association of Realtors, is barely back from Washington, D.C., where he ran the Marine Corps Marathon as a benefit to a friend needing hip surgery, then got stranded when the airport closed for Hurricane Sandy. He’ll make a contribution from the sale of this home for the same fund. The price, $2.980 million, reflects the discounts buyers are seeing in acreage Douglas County properties now, he adds. “This would be probably $3.6 or $3.7 million,” he added. “It’s just a really high-end home, and people will see that value.” Beside its site (with a putting green) is an additional 0.9 acre site that the purchaser can have as an added buffer, for $400,000. From I-25 take Happy Canyon Road west 2 miles to the second roundabout, then around left to Gate 4, the entry nearest the shopping pavilion, for instructions. WHERE: Custom home in Castle Pines Village created 2008 by Summit Chalet, 6-bedroom 8-bath. 651 Ruby Trust Dr., Castle Rock; from I-25 take Happy Canyon Rd. west 2 miles to 2nd roundabout, around left to Gate 4, the gate nearest the shopping pavilion, for instructions; follow arrows. PRICE: $2.980 million WHEN: Today, after game, 2 until 5 p.m. PHONE: 303-775-0033
