Featured home: Through the looking glass
Sweeping views, professional decor create a warm, relaxing home
By Kate Jonuska
People in glass houses, they say, shouldn’t throw stones. Of course, this idiom imagines a glass house as an exposed place, probably sharp and cold, where the world can look in and judge the occupants.
Obviously, that idiom never took into account this warm and comfortable home in Top of Skyway in Southwest Colorado Springs, where plentiful windows reveal a breathtaking view without exposing its occupants to prying eyes.
“I don’t see this much glass in a lot of the homes up here. You take all the trouble to be up here with the views, so that’s a huge selling point,” says Suzanne Holland of Platinum Group Realtors, who lists the five-bedroom, four-bath home for $785,000. Holland points out that the vista sweeps from Garden of the Gods over the city lights. “You feel like you’re outdoors with these views, and you’re almost at the top of the neighborhood, so it’s quiet and private.”
“It’s such a big view. She almost went crazy when she saw this,” says the seller of his wife’s reaction. But thanks to thoughtful planning and landscaping, the couple has never felt that the plentitude of glass infringed upon their privacy or cooled the home’s warm, cozy interior. “They’ve got the trees in the right places so you don’t feel people are looking at you.”
CLICK HERE to read a PDF of this article in its entirety, which was published in the June 7, 2008 Springs Houses.
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