NoVa Best New Listings: Waycroft and Fairfax County

• January 8th 2012

by Sarah Godfrey

In this week’s NoVa Best New Listings, we take a look at a one-story Fairfax home with a smart closet office, and an updated four-bedroom Cape Cod with some interesting design elements.

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One-Level Fairfax Home with Closet Office

The upside of one-level living is, of course, not having to hoof it up and down flights of stairs. But it can be a challenge to stay organized when there’s not a second story to serve as a place to easily stash a bunch of clutter. This ranch-style house in the Alexandria section of Fairfax County has a couple of features that solve this problem, the cutest of which is a bedroom closet that has been converted into a small, contained office. Instead of dedicating an entire bedroom to work space, or putting a desk in the middle of a living or dining room, a computer and several shelves are neatly tucked away and can even be further hidden from view with a curtain or screen.

• Full Listing: 5602 Norton Road, Alexandria, Va. (map)
• Price: $329,000
• Bedrooms: Four
• Bathrooms: Two
• Year Built: 1952
• Listing Agent: Rita McCauley-Redmond, Coldwell Banker

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Traditional Cape Cod with Non-Traditional Design Elements

This four-bedroom home in the Waycroft section of Arlington took its architectural/design cues from old fairy tales and recent issues of Dwell. The home’s exterior is all cozy brick, gables, and big shutters—like a cottage straight out of the Brothers Grimm. But the old-fashioned charm doesn’t extend to the home’s interior, where there are a ton of modern, well-thought-out elements, including a recessed sleeping nook in a child’s bedroom, a cedar-lined closet, and built-in storage throughout.

• Full Listing: 4910 N. 13th Street, Arlington, Va. (map)
• Price: $774,000
• Bedrooms: Four
• Bathrooms: Two
• Year Built: 1937
• Listing Agent: Sally Kramer, RE/MAX Allegiance

This article originally published at https://dc.urbanturf.com/articles/blog/nova_best_new_listings_waycroft_fairfax_county/4877.