6211 High Country Dr NE, Cedar Rapids, IA 52411

If you want a back-to-nature experience while living in the city, this beautiful home under mature oaks and maples surrounded by bird song is for you. The brick and polished limestone fireplace is a built in stove, warming the first floor of the home on a few logs a day. You can enjoy a fire outdoors as well in the park like setting in the front yard. The paving stone stairs, gardens, fire pit, and patio are tucked beautifully into the wooded hillside providing the perfect entertaining spot or personal get away. In the back yard, you have the charming screened in porch to enjoy summer meals as a family or a private coffee with a book. There is even a Tiffany style pendant to light your outdoor meals, one of the many lighting upgrades to the home. The great room hosts the most fantastic of the lighting upgrades with its massive chandelier, which fully lights the room for reading or dims to a romantic glow for conversation or a movie. The great room's wrap of granite flooring at booth doorways preserves the carpet, as well as provides the perfect corner for live plants by the window or a Christmas tree. All entrances to the home are hard surface and easy to clean. We raised a family here! The forest was a wonderful playground and the court was the blacktop for sports. Seminole Valley Park is just down the hill providing larger grassy areas for sport. The "little house" on the side of the home is equipped with slate floors, electricity, track lighting, a tiny deck and a sleeping loft. Children or grandchildren will love this extra tiny home of their own. Our teenage son built it as his music studio. It also serves well as a potting shed. The kitchen has a beautiful view out one of the newly upgraded windows, plenty of counter space, and quality beautiful appliances. It is the heartbeat of the home. The laundry room stays neat with a full-size closet and ample cupboards to tuck away laundry baskets and supplies. The laundry room doubles as a mud room off the lower deck as well as a sewing area and craft room. Both bathrooms are entirely new. Hardwood cabinetry, tile floors, toilets, sinks, vanities, towel bars, everything! If you like attention to detail, you will love the soaking tub in the main bathroom with the well-designed tiled niches and crown molding. It is my favorite. Privacy, peacefulness, and beauty meets your eye out every window of the home. There are a nice variety of neighbors, ranging from young families with children to retirees in the neighborhood. So whether you want to raise a family or peacefully retire, this is Home!