This photo was posted on the Realtor.com blog under the headline, “Cutest Real Estate Listing Photo Ever.” It got my attention, and after I saw that fabulous laundry room the pup was sitting in (with wrapping station!), I had to see the rest of the house.
The listing describes it as a “Hamptons-style shingle home” for sale in Franklin Lakes Boro, New Jersey. Asking price is $5.5 million. Take a look!
The exterior reminds me of the one in Something’s Gotta Give, one of my all-time faves. Did you know more people search for photos of that house on my blog every day than any of the other dozens of movie houses I’ve featured?
The house has a whopping 13,000 square feet.
Whenever I see chandeliers like this one over the kitchen table, I think of the blue version in Sarah Jessica Parker’s Hamptons house. Her dining room photo in Elle Decor was the first place I saw one years ago. Oh, and there’s one in The Proposal’s Alaskan kitchen, too, you may remember.
There are 6 bedrooms and 7 baths.
The master bedroom and bath look like they belong in like a high-end hotel.
I like this sweet girls’ bedroom with the deep windowseat alcove and the built-in bookshelves.
I was watching “Love It or List It” last week and the house-hunting couple refused to buy a place that had a similar windowseat because they’re “bad feng-shui.” Bad feng-shui or not, I love ‘em. And this one looks big enough to sleep on–perfect for sleepovers!
The house sits on nearly 2 acres.
Would a cute pup in a real estate listing grab your attention? One listing agent commented that he has homebuyers who won’t even look at a house if they know a dog lives there. Are you one of them?
For more photos and information, check the Sotheby’s listing by Mary Premtaj. (Thanks to Brandon for the link!)
On Sundays I feature interesting houses for sale like:
- A Charming “Country Cape” in Connecticut
- The MacKenzie-Childs Estate in New York
- A Novelist’s Traditional Southern Home in Atlanta
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I like the laundry room best!
Are you kidding me? I’d only buy the house if that cute dog came with it! All kidding aside, that house is gorgeous! I love the library and I love the window seat too – it looks like the perfect place to read.
Oh, I love this house, Julia! Stunning!!! They can keep their cute pup though.
How sweet!
xo
Luciane at HomeBunch.com
A cute dog definitely grabs my attention!
I love animals so it doesn’t bother me at all if a house has had pets. I really like this house too, dog and all.
Um — yes, please!
I’m with you on the window seat – what a cozy spot!
I adore the pupster!! The home is amazing, the grounds, those hardwood floors, and the lighting! Wow.
Window seats bad Feng shui I have never heard that! I adore
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Karena
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I’d take that house if they had a Llama living in it! The ceilings alone are drool worthy!
Hope ya feel better real quick
The dog is adorable but I will admit it kind of turns me off if they have inside pets when I am looking at a house.
Great house, adorable dog! The cynic in me says the dog probably doesn’t live there but was brought in for the photo shoot. The house looks too perfect to have a dog living there!
I love it all! That laundry room was fabulous, but the dog just made it even cuter.
I happen to think the window seat in that bedroom was beautiful!
It would be a dream come true to live there. I kept looking at the third photo trying to figure out what that little area behind those leaded glass windows was. Duh! it’s a mirror.
I LOVE this house! Love the laundry room, that window seat is adorable, what a sweet girls room and for the rest of the house, yes pleease!
That is definitely a nice laundry room. The house–I don’t know–it’s certainly beautiful, but who needs 13,000 square feet? I’m a small and cozy cottage person, and I love to see the creative ways that people maximize small spaces.
I love this house!!! I would take it – with the puppy!
I love that house. I am one of those people that if I walk into a house with carpeting and I know that animals live there, I automatically feel negative toward the place.
Because I know what animals do on carpet, and there’s no cleaning agent on earth good enough to make that right.
Looove that window seat too!
What a beautiful place!
We bought a house that had 2 dogs, 3 cats, a bird, fish and a ferret – all in 1100 sf! And I’m allergic to cats.
while I love this house and really adore the laundry room, the dog would turn me off. My family has pet allergies so a home with a pet a no,no!
I’m so glad you watch Love it or List it! I love Hilary Farr’s decorating solutions – she’s got such great taste, and seriously is so clever. And I like David just because he shows us the inside of a bunch of houses here in town
) It’s funny, I guess wrong so often as to what the couple is going to do.
Personally I never want pets in my home unless it’s in a cage. If a home with pets, has lots of carpet, then it turns me off.
This house is so stunning. I love hamptons styled homes. They are so beautiful.
Sorry you are sick. Having a cold is no fun especially when you feel out of it. Get better soon.
What a gorgeous home! It’s elegant but looks like a house you could be comfortable in.
You can keep your rugrats. I would prefer a house with a pet resident than a bunch of yappy kids ANY day. Pets are obvious. Kids are not. I know. I have rental property AND I rent to people with pets. I WISH I could refuse to rent to people with kids but the government says that is “discrimination.” Huh. Where is the government when I have to have a bathtub re-enameled because some kid took a sharp object to it and scraped big gouges in the bottom of the tub? You can bet a dog wouldn’t do that! I have had 100 times more problems from tenants with kids than those with pets. Carpet is just about the easiest fix there is. Geez. Let me see, holes punched in walls, electrical ruined, ceilings damaged by foreign material stuck in it, doors with holes in them, not to mention how many hundreds I’ve spent on blinds. And oh, yes, my favorite-some kid dug up the bricks around the flower garden and stuffed them in the tile under the driveway. I had so much fun crawling on my belly pulling pieces of broken bricks out of the drain in the pouring rain to prevent the neighbors yard from flooding. Yep, give me a dog ANYTIME!
Amen !
Looks like a palace. Spaces look too large. Nice laundry room though. As for a wrapping station, I don’t wrap that many packages except for Christmas.
That agent took staging to a whole new level! And surprisingly one that isn’t completely tasteless or tacky in my opinion as a dog lover. Approved!
I love this house, sooo big, perfect for my family and friends!
xo
Franklin Lakes is the town where the Real Housewives of New Jersey live!
Love this house Julia!
When looking at houses to buy, my husband refuses to look at a house where the owner has, or has had, a cat. He is so allergic that he starts sneezing before he even steps in the door.
This house is just too big. I don’t want to walk that far for a cup of coffee. It shows the problem with the current gray fad-doesn’t it put you to sleep just looking at it.
The side round porch roof is like the foyer entry of “JLo’s” house posted here earlier, and is much less money. Closer to my budget but still 22x’s my price range.
I love dogs (have 4)but when you are selling to general population it is easier to not turn off any lookers. Most non-owners of dogs are going to think there are “wet” spots on all the carpets.
rick
Do any of these commenter’s who get the willy’s when entering a house with carpeting and pets realize that carpeting can be removed ? Just think of how much food, drink , outside dirt and other bodily fluids from humans are on any carpet. Don’t be afraid of the pets be afraid of carpeting, its gross.
beautiful house + 6 months pregnant hormones = tears! This house is amazing. I have always wanted a wrapping station, and I can just imagine folding cloth diapers on that wonderful laundry counter. And yes, I would definitely want the dog too!
Very pretty! I don’t mind if a dog has lived there as long as the place doesn’t smell like dog! We went to a few homes that smelled awful!
What I hate is homes that have been smoked in. You can’t get that smell out!
What stunning millwork in this house. Love the laundry room too. I have never heard of people that won’t look at a house if a dog lives there. This place certainly looks well cared for dog or not.
Beautiful home interiors. Dog is really cute.
I am always a sucker for black and white checkered floors. AND that bedroom with the window seat is AmAzInG!!! I have always wanted my own window seat *sigh*
I love dogs and window seats. The house from Something’s Gotta Give is my absolute fav. We have sold 5 houses so far and yes it has happened that some potential buyers did not want to even look at the house because we had a dog. Oh, and it was not because they had allergies. I’m very leery of people who don’t like animals!
Love your blog.
Jeannette
A cute dog is definitely effective marketing!
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