FREEPORT – This timberpeg contemporary in a sweetly secluded neighborhood has a definite European character, combined with classic Maine woods appeal.

Take the kitchen, for example: sophisticated in its appliances (Bosch French door refrigerator, Blomberg oven, Asko dishwasher) and surfaces (compressed concrete counters including island, and new slate flooring); pleasantly rustic in its wealth of wood trim and exposed beams – pine, Douglas fir, lightly stained maple cabinetry.

The paneled mudroom, whose double closet has built-ins and which accesses the two-bay garage, also has slate flooring, though in diagonal pattern. Elsewhere, floors are oak, as in the corner office, or first-floor (third) bedroom. There’s a well-appointed full bath handy.

The kitchen flows through the dining space into the sitting area, whose full-view doors open out to the deck, and whose picture window and skylights take full advantage of the home’s southerly exposure. The little ell with built-in shelving makes a perfect office/library, and shares in the exposed brick of the adjacent living room hearth, and in the warmth generated by its soapstone wood stove.

Upstairs, one highlight of the renovated full bath is its glass-and-subway-tile shower enclosure. Cathedral-ceiling bedrooms are on either side. The master gets morning’s first light and has a double-ended walk-in closet; the west-side bedroom’s tall windows frame a lovely pastoral scene.

Built in 1980, the home has been consistently updated to provide all contemporary comforts, and efficiency, including solar hot water. The full basement is very “livable,” with a heater, exercise space, good ceiling height, great built-ins for storage, and soft-grey Bosch washer and dryer.

The location, on the west, “Desert of Maine” side of town, is a winner not only for its woodsy, 1.23-acre lot, but also for walking distance-proximity to Maine Coast Waldorf School (early childhood through grade 8); minimal-minutes’ drive to I-295 Exit 20, two miles away; and for bordering conservation-land trails you can follow to Bradbury Mountain five miles away, and then on to Pineland.

(Cool historic note: In the 1960s, the hill out back was 500-foot-tow-rope “Maggie’s Mountain,” as documented by New England Lost Ski Areas.)

The 1,389-square-foot home at 9 Merrill Road, Freeport, is listed for sale at $269,900 by Tom Landry of Benchmark Residential & Investment Real Estate in Portland. Annual taxes are $3,822.

For more information or to schedule a private viewing, please contact Tom at 775-0248, or at landryteam@benchmarkmaine.com.

Produced by the Marketing Department of the Portland Press Herald, the Friday feature home is provided at no cost.

Photos by Melanie Sochan, staff photographer.

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