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Just Reduced - Handcrafted Log Home!

     Just reduced!  3BR, 2BA lovingly handcrafted log home with 1780 sq. ft. and 320 sq. ft. front porch.  5.4 wooded acres.  Ideal for growing family, winter get-a-way lodge for snowbirds, or work in the comfort of a beautiful and airy open floor plan!  Built-ins through-out and solid wood interior top to bottom.  7 types of wood used.  Economical energy miser house rated 38-40 with low utilities, satellite and a deep water well, (365 ft.)  Ideally located just off the coast for tropical season.  Homeowner’s insurance very affordable.  Plenty of shade.  Minutes away from everything!  Beaches, recreation, watersports, fishing, golf, the Gulf, shopping.  Just off Hwy 331 South and only 4 miles from Interstate 10 yet extremely private.  Relax in your new peaceful and comfortable Florida oasis at 185 Forrest Oak Road!

Ever want to live in a log home?  You can now!  This wonderful log house was built in 2000 as an energy miser home, (which is great in the current economy!), and currently power bills average $70. to $130. a month!  Homeowner’s insurance rate is low too, affording you the availability of living 30 minutes from the white sandy beaches of Santa Rosa Beach and Destin, Florida without having to pay the higher homeowner’s insurance rates.  Minutes from shopping and town this oasis sits on 5 acres in Woodlawn, a desirable rural neighborhood just outside historic DeFuniak Springs, Florida.  With 2 master suites, (one up, one down), both with all cedar baths and closets it also has a large loft that can be used as living space, extra bedroom, (has 4 windows, 2 skylights and a closet), or as a studio which is what it is  right now.  The open floor plan downstairs allows for easy entertaining or just cozying up with your family.  The grounds are carved out of nature around the house with plenty of yard and grass, a vegetable garden and workshop. The yard then just blends into nature and gives you ”country living in a city location”.  For nine years everyone who has walked into this place says one word, “WOW”…although the pictures are good, they do not even do this beautiful home justice.  This is something you’ve got to see for yourself AND you’ve got a real motivated seller.  Come see this dream home and make an offer…It just might be yours!  LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION! all at 185 Forrest Oak Road

COME ON IN YOUR NEW LOG HOME!

YOUR NEW LOG HOME!

Reduced for Quick Sale

Don’t miss this!…Our current “buyer’s market” is going to enable some blessed family to get this beautiful and comfortable spacious log home for less than appraisal value!  Appraised in Feb. for $295,000 and destined to greatly appreciate because of its location off Hwy 331 in DeFuniak Springs, Florida, this property is just waiting for its new owners! Immaculate and only thirty minutes from the beach it is an ideal location for many reasons and the peaceful and private surroundings make this property UNIQUE on the market.  Everyone who has walked into this place in the last nine years, (built in 2000), says one word… “WOW”.  Motivated sellers say “Make an offer.”  It could be yours!  Even though the photos are great they still do not do this property justice…”You gotta see it to believe it.”  Escape from the rat race every time you pull in your driveway!  Still close enough, (minutes away), from everything you need, shopping, offices, work, entertainment, recreation, golfing, you name it, YET when you come home you’re in the middle of 5 gorgeous acres of trees with a beautifully carved out and landscaped yard, gardens, flowering trees, and vegetable garden.  Workshop with porch in back allows for plenty of projects while inside an open floor plan and upstairs loft give plenty of room for living.  Two bedrooms, one upstairs and one down, both with their own cedar bathroom and cedar closets are cozy in the winter and refreshing during the summer.  Come and see it for yourself at 185 Forrest Oak Road!

Best of Two Worlds!

Do you live in or want to live in the Fort Walton Beach or Destin area yet can’t afford the homeowner’s insurance rates in that area??  With this DeFuniak Springs log home on 5.4 acres you can still commute to the beach yet be able to afford your homeowner’s insurance!  Our homeowner’s is $1700/yr and we have heard multiple instances of Fort Walton Beach and Destin area homeowner’s insurance going as high as $7,000 to $10,000 a year.  A much safer location is DeFuniak Springs than Fort Walton or Destin when the hurricanes blow through and yet the beaches of Santa Rosa Beach, Seagrove, and Destin are all 30 minutes to 45 minutes away!  An easy commute if you’re working in Fort Walton Beach or Destin as this property is situated on Hwy 331 South just between Freeport and DeFuniak Springs.  The home is 4 miles from Interstate 10 access and minutes from shopping.  You know what they say…LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION!  This one’s got it…Since the listing, a new walkway in the front of the house has been installed, more cedar trim added on the interior, the workshop has a fresh updated look, and the well house is being redone.  With it finally getting cooler all is cozy inside this affordable and beautiful log home.  Wouldn’t it make just a beautiful Christmas present for YOUR family…God bless!  Come see

185 Forrest Oak Road!

4016 EVERETT AVE

3 bedroom 2 bath Greatroom

design home. “Richard Van Orden Distinctive Homes” Award winning Islander model.  4016 Everett Ave., Spring Hill, Fl 34609, this property is  1/4acre with a beautifully treed & privacy fenced backyard, a “park like” setting in this quite Spring Hill Neighborhood.  Located in Hernando County Florida, Spring Hill is appox. 35-40 minutes north of Tampa International Airport, close to the Tampa Bay Area, & the white sand beaches of clearwater.  Enjoy the Florida Lifestyle! See all the details at www.getmoreoffers.com/viewproperty.asp?prop=2098259 or www.vanordenhomebuilders.com         

Log home at the beach!

Have the best of both worlds in your very own custom log home on 5.4 acres of privacy yet 30 minutes from the white sand and green waters of Destin beaches.  Built in 2000 this beautiful home features an open floor plan with 2 master suites, large cedar closets, cedar walls, custom built-ins throughout and a detached workshop.  The massive loft now used as an art studio could be 3rd bedroom.  An energy miser home with extremely low power bills, skylights and a large triangular window upstairs, and beautiful landscaping make this one home that won’t be on the market long!  Outside the city limits between historic DeFuniak Springs and the growing town of Freeport, this log home is only 4 miles from Interstate 10.  Accessible to everything, yet “nobody even knows you are there!” as house is set back from road.  What a blessing!  Check us out at 185 Forrest Oak Road!.