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Home Features Professional Spotlight Georgetown Development Corporation
14
Jul
2010
Georgetown Development Corporation
With warm wood tones, beautiful Italian marble and authentic gas burning New Orleans lanterns, Rosedale has all the accoutrements for gracious living. Set in the heart of Bethesda, the home is warm, comfortable and friendly.

“The project was our most challenging to date,” says Mel Silicki of Georgetown Development, “the homeowner’s incredible ideas and wishes made us have to constantly think outside the box to be able to build the home of
their dreams.”

As you enter the living room at Rosedale, you are confronted with a luscious two story fireplace with a limestone mantle. Above the mantle hang two working gaslight lanterns from New Orleans. The beams in the living room are wide, hand milled Cypress which add warmth to the room.  All the flooring inside is Italian limestone and radiant heat has been used in the flooring inside and out.

The owners have used furniture to define the space and the living room empties into the kitchen where they spend a good amount of time entertaining. Like the living room, the beams in the kitchen are Cypress and the pendant lighting was acquired during the travels of the owners.  “The owners have traveled all over the world,” Silicki says, “and they picked up incredible pieces that they wanted incorporated in the house.  It made the design process unique and interesting to add these diverse pieces into the home.”



The countertops are concrete and the island is a handmade metal patina with rivets.  The metal patina range hood came from Colorado and all the cabinetry hardware is hand forged in Colorado.  The windows in the kitchen are Honduran mahogany.

The kitchen has a hand pounded copper sink and Rohl plumbing fixtures. Particularly stunning is the wine cabinet and Viking Range which is chocolate. The sub-zero refrigerator has a beautiful cabinet panel. Right off the kitchen is a screened in porch where you can see the Honduran windows. The ceiling is cedar and the walls are stucco. The screened in porch boasts one of four fireplaces with a river rock face.

An elegant walnut staircase moves you from the first to the second floor. The walnut rails were hand milled on site and the pickets are wrought iron which has been aged to look rustic.



Each bathroom has been designed to give it a spa feeling like the spas in the worldwide travels of the owners. The son’s bathroom is all marble and has marble wainscoting from floor to ceiling. It has a river pebble stone tile floor. Plush towels finish the effect.

In the owner’s suite, the spa-like bathroom has walnut floors and the shower is limestone and marble. The lighting is antique lamps that have been acquired by the owners and re-furbished to work. Likewise, the cabinets for the sink are antiques and have been made to have sinks and faucets to make them functional bathroom cabinets. The sinks are copper pounded sinks and a sealant has been put on the top layer to protect it from water.

The sitting room in the owner’s suite has walnut floors and the bedroom area looks to the stairwell for a nice, open feeling.

The feeling at Rosedale is one of hand milled cypress and lots of rustic type woods used throughout for ceiling detail.  Adding to the eclectic feel of the house, the walls upstairs have been covered with grass wallpaper to add space and the walnut rails add character.

On the lower level, there is a game room with an embossed ceiling which is faux painted. The fireplace in the game room goes to the upper level and the floors are slate.

Downstairs, the spa feeling continues as the guest shower doubles as a steam shower with grey slate stone surrounding the shower and individual river rocks on the left side of the shower. Both the floor and ceiling are river stone.

There is a sunken 10 person spa with stone tiling around it and a beautiful gate from an old manor home in England found at a Kensington Antique Dealer.



Inside the garage, which has been converted to an entertainment center, there are four antique doors which create extra storage space. The stove in the garage is La Canache.

The outside of the house is no less impressive with a stucco front and all copper gutters. The pergola and front cover are made of cedar and the roof is cedar. The lighting is gas lanterns specially made in New Orleans. On the walkway, half way down, sits an original wok which is used for a water piece.

Says Silicki, “To call this a home would be wrong, it truly is a piece of art.”  


 

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