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7353 Broken Staff is in the townhouse development of Lakeside, one of the neighborhoods surrounding Lake Elkhorn in the Village of Owen Brown in Columbia.


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The front yard is entirely covered in paver stones and perennial gardens. Two adjoining neighbors have done the same thing, creating a large continuous patio area out front. (The back yard is stone patio and garden, too; no mowing required.)


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The living room (14'10" x 21'0") has oak hardwood floors and crown molding, and opens onto a full-width deck which is ten feet deep.


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The Kenmore refrigerator and dishwasher were replaced in 2000, the new General Electric flat-top range was installed in 2007. The microwave and major kitchen appliances convey. The counter has an overhang for additional bar-stool seating if needed.


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The fireplace in the eat-in kitchen is one of our favorite features of the house. We spend lots of time here in the winter. The floors are laminate, as they are in the adjoining kitchen. The combined dimensions of the kitchen and dining area are 17'1" x 14'0". The corner hutch conveys. The sliding glass door overlooks the garden, and the birds and squirrels have grown accustomed to restaurant-quality seed provided there.


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The powder room (6'3" x 3'0") on the main floor is light blue, with a blue-and-white patterned tile floor.


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In the lower level, nearly the entire footprint of the house is dedicated to one room, which measures 24'0" x 21'3". Deep, built-in shelves line the long wall. There is an alcove that houses a 27" Sony TV, which conveys. There also is a bathroom (7'6" x 4'9", with shower) a utility room (10'5" x 9'3") and two huge closets.

Kids can play loudly in this room without disturbing people upstairs -- or the next-door neighbors. There are sound-absorbing cinderblock walls between the adjoining townhouses.


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The deck (16' x 10') is deep enough for a full-sized grill and a full-sized patio table, and overlooks an open space field with a wooded buffer between the house and Cradlerock Way.


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Our backyard garden is mostly shaded by an oak tree and a crabapple. The bush on the trellis is an antique rose, which yields many dozens of pale pink roses each season. Ferns, hostas, violets and bleeding hearts thrive here.


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The master bedroom (21'5" x 12'1", including the walk-in closet) runs the width of the house.


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The shower area (5'8" x 5'1") in the master bathroom is off to the right of the vanity seen at the right of the photo above.


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The walk-in closet in the master bedroom is 8'0" x 5'0".


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The second bedroom (14'4" x 9'7") has a built-in window seat. It is heated by the sun in the winter, and shaded by a large oak tree in the summer.


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The third bedroom (11' x 10'10") is adjacent to the second bedroom. They share a full bath, pictured just below, across the hall. There is a drop-down ladder in this room that leads to a 128-square-foot storage platform in the attic.


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The second bathroom (7'5" x 4'11") on the top floor is a full bath.

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Apologies for the very rough floor plan, but several people asked so I went through the house and sketched it. Clearly I am no architect, but this should give you a rough idea of the layout. The scale is not perfect, so please go by the room sizes listed above, which are measured to the inch.

The floor plan goes (L to R) bottom floor to top floor. Click here for a bigger version in a new window.

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Our Location

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