After more than 30 years building mansions for Colorado’s elite, homebuilder Ed Venerable is parting with his masterpiece — a Scandinavian-style home in Greenwood Village.
Venerable, founder of Paragon Homes, and his wife, Amy, listed the Cherryville Road home for $7 million.
The 9,000-square-foot mansion sits on just under an acre backing onto the High Line Canal, in a pocket that pairs Cherry Creek School District boundaries with Greenwood Village tax rates.
Venerable paid $1.4 million for the lot in June 2023 and finished construction in 2024, working with architect Mike Woodley.
Giving Woodley creative control was an easy decision. “I have a ton of confidence and trust in him.”
The result is a style Venerable says is rare in Denver: Scandinavian Modern, heavy on glass and natural light, with a low-maintenance exterior built for a mountain climate rather than a metro one.
The roof is standing-seam metal, and the siding is factory-finished wood — choices Venerable said he leans on more in his Vail projects than in Denver.
“Thatap what makes the exterior maintenance-free,” he said. “You don’t have to mess with it constantly.”
Inside, the layout leans contemporary rather than ornate, with an open floor plan built around entertaining.
The kitchen — with imported Italian cabinetry and a Cristallo stone island — opens to a great room and a formal dining area, which in turn opens through multislide doors to a patio and pool.
“The kitchen is the heart of the house,” Venerable said. “Everybody ends up there. Without a good kitchen, a house has no soul.”
The primary suite includes his-and-hers closets, including a two-story closet for his wife built out to roughly 1,000 square feet with its own staircase to the basement for off-season storage — some friendly one-upmanship inspired that feature, Venerable said.
“One of her friends had an elaborate closet. I said I’d make one better.”
The basement has a commercial-grade gym with a cold plunge, along with a separate rec room intended to give kids their own space apart from the main living areas.
Venerable said the home was designed to meet the needs of his wife and sons. But now that both sons have finished college and are moving out of state — one to Arizona, the other to New York — the couple have more house than they need.
“We’ve got an 8,000-square-foot house, an acre yard, a hot tub, a pool no one uses,” Venerable said. “It was built for the previous chapter of our life, not the next one.”
Listing agent Libby Weaver of Helm Weaver Helm of Compass-Denver said the home’s flexible layout gives it broad appeal. The main-floor primary suite could suit empty nesters, while the finished basement and pool make a case for a family with teenagers.
“We’re seeing buyers who are empty nesters but want space that children and grandchildren can come and enjoy,” Weaver said. “They want more space, more amenities, so their families can congregate.”
Weaver said the pool — four feet deep throughout, popular for games and floating — along with the fire pit and hot tub, make the property a natural draw for a family with kids still at home.
“Itap a real desirable house for a family,” Weaver said. “Itap definitely an entertainer’s house.”
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