HANDSOME COLONIAL 

This sixteen-room stone and clapboard Colonial home in Bernardsville offers five bedrooms, with six full and two half baths within its expansive layout. It is set on approximately ten acres with spectacular long views of the countryside and with a blue-stone terrace and a swimming pool currently under construction. Approached by a long tree-lined paved drive, wonderful details are found throughout this innovative home. The grand entry foyer with limestone floor and the formal living and dining rooms featuring inlaid hardwood floors, are spacious and inviting while more casual gathering areas are found in the great room with built-in bookcases and a coffered ceiling, music room or den, conservatory with walls of windows and designer kitchen with breakfast room. A finished walk-out lower level presents an additional area for living and entertaining. Four fireplaces – one each in the great room, living room, media/recreation room and master suite – provide striking focal points. Sets of French doors in the great room and breakfast-room area lead to a charming bluestone terrace overlooking the pool area and the Somerset Hills.

Of special note is the country kitchen with breakfast-room area, two-level center island with breakfast bar, knotty alder cabinetry, tumbled-marble backsplash and granite countertops. Top-of-the-line appliances and radiant heat in the floor are other exceptional features. A second-floor highlight is the wonderful master suite with sitting room. Amenities in this space include a fireplace, room-size customized walk-in closet and a gracious master bathroom with spa tub and separate stall shower. Three more family bedrooms, each with a full bath, a two-room guest suite with full bath and a laundry room complete this level. Located off the bedroom hallway is a door to the walk-up attic.

10 acre lot.