LISTING OF THE DAY
Location: Denver, Colorado
Price: $5.5 million
This modern red-brick home newly built just outside of downtown Denver opens up completely to an interior courtyard, offering a range of indoor-outdoor possibilities.
“The main house is completely entertaining friendly,” said listing agent Mckinze Casey, of LIV Sotheby’s International Realty. “It opens up entirely so that you can utilize the whole courtyard space.”
“My clients built it as a custom dream home, but they had a Covid pivot,” she said. “He changed the path of his company and realized he no longer needed to have a primary residence in Denver and that’s why it’s for sale.”
The house on 18th Street, which was designed by BOSS.architecture and built by Montare Builders, is brand new and has never been lived in, Ms. Casey said. It is in the popular Lower Highland, or LoHi, neighborhood.
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The owner intended the 1,480-square-foot lower level to be a separate space, possibly as an Airbnb rental, she said. “The lower level really does live as its own residence.”
The exterior of the home “almost looks like a brick office building, but inside it’s incredibly light and bright,” she said.
The home has an inconspicuous front door that opens to a long corridor/gallery with a concrete floor, skylights and no windows. “It’s a very moody space,” Ms. Casey said.
The large ground-floor kitchen has granite countertops and a long island with stools. It opens to the courtyard via a dramatic set of 33-foot-by-10-foot- Pella multi-slide doors, with integrated concrete flooring transitions between the faux-turf grass in the courtyard and the hardwood floors in the kitchen. The kitchen millwork is by Aspen Leaf, and all of the appliances are hidden behind automatic doors.
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Another set of oversized Pella multi-slide doors opens the sunroom to the courtyard.
The second floor holds three en-suite bedrooms and a lounge area/den with many windows, a space the owner had envisioned as a conference room for his company, Ms. Casey said. It could easily be made into another bedroom, a home office or a gym.
The primary bedroom suite, which takes up the whole third floor of the home, has an attached mahogany roof deck, she said. “The downtown views from there are unreal.”
The roof deck offers dramatic city views at night.
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Stats
The 7,261-square-foot house has five bedrooms, five full bathrooms and one partial bathroom. It sits on a 0.1-acre lot.
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Amenities
Amenities include an elevator that services all levels, a fireplace in the living room, an outdoor kitchen, a guest apartment, a roof deck and an interior courtyard.
Neighborhood Notes
Lower Highland is one of six neighborhoods in a pocket of northwest Denver, Ms. Casey said.
“They are all fun and walkable, and they have the majority of the new restaurants that are opening in the city,” she said. “It’s a good mix of all demographics.”
LoHi is the most expensive of the six, she said. “You have a really neat mix of houses, and it’s a five-minute walk to downtown Denver.”
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Agent: Mckinze Casey, LIV Sotheby’s International Realty
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