East of Eden

East of Eden
Most take take the Hill Country in on the weekends: out on Friday, a tasting room on Saturday, home by Sunday night. East of Eden offers a better version of the Hill Country experience. 

The residence sits on 10.01 fenced acres of oak savanna minutes from Boot Ranch, with a long Hill Country panorama that falls away to rich, green pastures. A cypress-lined drive leads to a circular motor court and a limestone facade under a standing seam metal roof. Inside, steel French doors, wood beams, Segreto-style plaster and Natural Halifax Oak floors set a warm, natural palette. The kitchen centers on a Dacor Modernist range, a marble slab backsplash and a waterfall island, with a prep kitchen and a soapstone butler's pantry behind it. 

Limestone fireplaces run through the main rooms, and a game room is finished in black millwork. The primary suite has a dual-sided fireplace, a sitting area facing the live oaks and an adjoining office. Its bath sets a freestanding tub in penny tile beside a dressing corridor over herringbone brick. 

The loggia is the room that decides the house. Limestone arches frame a fireplace, a bar and outdoor dining, and a checkered stone floor runs toward the pool and the country past it. For most of the year it serves as the living room with better air. Separate guest quarters mean a full house never feels crowded, and every guest has a door of their own. A three-car garage completes the compound. 

Agricultural and wildlife exemptions are in place, with room for a vineyard, horses or more building. Wine Road 290 carries its tasting rooms toward Johnson City, and Fredericksburg's Main Street handles dinner: all of it available, none of it required. 

A primary residence, a private vacation home or a long-term holding, turnkey and without the wait of new construction.