What This Home Offers:
A David Osler original located in the desirable neighborhood of Ann Arbor Hills. This modern home draws your eyes to the beautiful brick exterior and the NEW sleek metal roof and gutters. You will enter into a large open floor plan, ideal for those who want space and enjoy entertaining. The home offers a Galley kitchen, perfect for any home chef that loves to cook. You also get a finished bonus room downstairs with a full bath that can be used to your needs. Enjoy perfect views from every angle in the home, with large glass door walls in every room that slide open to the wrap around porch. Take time to relax on your covered back porch surrounded by meticulously sculpted landscaping and an unbelievable aware winning garden with outside lighting. This home is a work of art, which exudes privacy, serenity and beauty. You can see why its been said this was one of David Osler's favorite homes. The attention to detail, design and most of all functionality for living.
David Osler The Architect:
David W. Osler (born January 9, 1921) is an Ann Arbor-based architect, who served in WWII. He founded David W. Osler Associates in 1958. The firm won 22 honor awards and a finalist out of almost 1500 entries to design the Vietnam Ware Memorial in Washington D.C. He was elevated to the college of Fellows of the AIA in 1981, a lifetime honor for design excellence and contributions to the profession. His work has been featured in places like U of M Museum of Art. Osler began his career in residential, but also worked on projects like St. Clare of Assisi Episcopal Church, Oslund Condominiums, Geddes Lakes Townhouses, and even Restored Michigan Theater with Quinn Evans.
His career which span 5 decades of Michigan architectural history. When designing a home, he took in consideration the person, functionality, privacy, and fitting the design to the site. It was important how you entered a home and how it opened up to and what happens as you travel through the space. Osler was about open plans when it came to social spaces, like living rooms, but privacy in bedrooms and bathrooms.
Home Specs
- Style: Modern
- Year: 1964
- Bedroom: 2
- Bonus Room: 1
- Full bathrooms: 3
- Fireplace: Neural
- Garage: 2
- Above Ground Sqft: 2449
- Basement Sqft: 1513
- Total Sqft: 3962
- Lot: 115X265
- Acres: .70
Special Features
- Built By Architect David Osler
- New Metal Roof
- New Gutters
- Extended Kitchen
- Award Winning Garden
- Out Door Lighting
- Wrap Around Porch
- Sliding Glass Door Walls - Every Room
- Dog Door w/ Dog Run