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Tuscan Villa

Among all the Montecito significant properties currently available, Prima Luce offers a unique family oriented floor plan, providing a lifestyle and amenities perfectly suited for an active family. This and the combination of the three most sought after characteristics most often requested by buyers, make this a home you have to see. Virtually every buyer coming to Montecito expresses their aspiration to find the perfect home with views, seclusion and character. Surprisingly, this is not an easy combination to satisfy in our small, rarified community. But we now have the privilege of offering that one home that meets that test and that has been described by many agents as the most beautiful home in Montecito.

Views: As the name implies, the home faces southeast providing not only the panoramic southern Pacific Ocean and Channel Island views for which our community is so well known, but also the eastern view including sun rise and moon rise and, one of my favorite views, the panoramic exposure to our entire Montecito valley that will remind you of the pastoral valleys of southern France. Truly a unique and panoramic view.

Seclusion: One of the most difficult combinations of features to find on any Montecito property is the combination of wide–open, panoramic views and at the same time benefit from the seclusion of not having other properties interfere with your privacy and seclusion. The topography and unique setting of Prima Luce benefits from this very rare combination and gives the owner the feeling he is "the commander of all he surveys."

Character: One man, and one man alone, has the reputation as Montecito's premier designer and builder of our most beautiful and significant personal residences in the last 30 years and that's Robert Webb. Of the 15 or so homes he's designed and either built new or renovated from their original construction, each has been revered for their quality and refined style. And when they've sold, they've each sold at a considerable premium beyond any level their competition could have commanded. In this home Mr. Webb has created a modern–day Tuscan villa using hand-chiseled Santa Barbara sandstone, quarried from this vary site, and combined it with French limestone for window surrounds and chimneys. The interior rooms benefit from travertine marble and distressed oak floors. Many interior surfaces include frescoes created by Elisa Stancil Studios of San Francisco and the ceiling height and scale of each room reflect that expected in the finest European period homes. In all, this is an elegant yet very comfortable understated family home.

In addition to the main home of approximately 8,425 square feet which includes five bedrooms, six full baths, two powder rooms and five fireplaces, the 2.3 acre property includes two over–sized, three–car garages, a one–bedroom guest house and a pool house with kitchen and bath, a 65–foot pool, spa and charming recirculating stream meandering through three ponds and a Monet inspired foot bridge. This completely fenced property also benefits from a charming children's play area with a one–of–a–kind two–story play house, and outdoor children's showers designed as large sunflowers. For the adult playground there is a seven-hole putting green.

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