Your Idaho Home
Real Estate Listings and Other Favorites from
Ray and Betsy Miller in Sandpoint
Original artwork for Your Idaho Home provided by Larry Blodgett of
Gallery In The Light
www.galleryinthelight.com
1702 Oak Street in Sandpoint
$347,500
This house was built by John Knowles, founder of the Residential Carpentry class at Sandpoint High School. In his program, students were guided through every step of home building, and they built and sold a house every year.
John and Ray worked together at SHS, and coached the football team with Head Coach Satini Puailoa and a great crew, for several years, including the 1997 Idaho State Champion team. Now that he's retired, John builds and sells houses on his own. He was known for quality work as a teacher and coach at SHS, and the same quality shows clearly in the homes he creates.
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In the living room, the gas fireplace is built-in, and above it the space is all ready for your flat-screen TV.
The front entrance, with a tile floor and coat closet, opens to the living/dining/kitchen areas.
The kitchen has a tile floor, huge pantry cupboard, door directly out to the deck (which is plumbed for natural gas for your grill!), and excellent lighting.
The range is a Jenn-Aire gas downdraft set in a granite countertop that faces out to the living room. This is important, because you can cook AND visit with your guests or watch TV!
The master suite has a big linen closet, a tile shower with a built-in seat, a heated, jetted tub, and plenty of space on the tiled counter. All three bedrooms have large closets with built-in shelving. The master bedroom has a vaulted ceiling, and all the ceilings that aren't vaulted are 9' ones, adding to the open feeling the house already has.
Everywhere in this house, you find pleasant surprises, small things like the finish detail on the door frames, the oval mirror in the second bath, quality hardware. Little things that add up to an overall feeling of quality and care in construction.
John showed us around the house, pointing out things that make it special, from the floor plan that makes it seem much bigger than it is, to the 35 year roof, the transplanted lilacs, and the undercabinet lighting in the kitchen. When we had seen everything and taken our pictures, he said, "I love building houses." We could see that on our own.
Make this Your Idaho Home. You'll be close to schools, the library and some of Sandpoint's really great parks.
Thanks for visiting,
Ray and Betsy
