Why you should buy their home in Riverhead
Paul and Linda Racano in their Riverhead home, which is on the market for $699,000. (July 5, 2012) Credit: Newsday/Jacqueline Connor
The Racanos' home is the Kirkwood model in The Highlands Club at Reeves. Ownership in the community includes clubhouse amenities, lawn maintenance and snow removal.
The four-bedroom, 2.5-bathroom house has 3,350 square feet of living space and is on .28 acre.
Linda talks about the house: "Our house is just short of 6 years old. It's a postmodern with an absolutely drop-dead open floor plan . . . [The] enormous master suite is on the main floor . . . so you can do all your living on one floor.
"We have a huge gourmet kitchen, a large breakfast room, a formal dining and a drop-dead great room with 20-foot ceilings and large windows on both sides of the fireplace . . . There are three more bedrooms upstairs . . .
"My favorite area is the U-shaped glassed-in room off the master suite. We use it as a sitting room year-round. It's bright and sunny and overlooks the golf course. We have a large master bedroom with a custom wall unit, custom closets and an oversized master bath with a soaring ceiling and bay window and a Jacuzzi. [The house] overlooks a pond in the front . . . Included with the house is $200,000 in window treatments and custom features like all the built-ins."
