Imagine a space with endless possibilities for living, entertaining, working, and creativity. A location less than 15 minutes to the shops and restaurants of downtown Boulder, 40 minutes to Eldora Ski Resort, with spectacular views from the Continental Divide to downtown Denver and DIA. The stunning 14 acre retreat borders Bald Mountain Open Space, and hiking and biking trails. 500 Arroyo Chico is a 27,403 square foot mountain sanctuary with infinite possibilities.
Special features
- Open kitchen with wood burning pizza oven (with gas hook-up), beautiful “Blue Eyes” granite counters, Viking oven/range, 2 dishwashers, 3 sinks, including a commercial pot sink.
- Master suite with luxury bathroom and jetted tub.
- Singing” Asian-style gong outside entrance.
- Architecturally designed and structurally engineered to commercial criteria.
- Beijing-based Dean of Feng-Shui masters and designer of major Asian banks, J.S. Shia, designed house interior for wealth, health and benefit of residents.
- Large office which could be easily converted into a home theater (wiring in place).
- Facing Betasso open space across the valley with no development in view.
- 2 guest/caretaker suites.
House details
- Fire-resistant construction: steel beams, steel gavalume roof, ¾ -inch concrete stucco exterior walls, concrete floors, 15-inch thick walls with heavy insulation, and concrete decks on three sides of the building.
- 2,000 gallon septic system.
- 550 ft well and 3,000 gallon cistern.
- Solar panels, geothermal.
- Propane and a back-up generator.
- Triple-glaze tempered glass windows.
- Shaft where elevator can be installed from garage to the roof.
- 30’X40’ atrium with reinforced floors for soil beds for interior year-round garden.
- High-efficiency lighting.
- Reverse osmosis water on tap in most parts of house.
- 4,600 square feet of decks.
- Low maintenance exposed steel, iron-stained color concrete decks, color stucco, no need to paint.
- Semi-active solar heating with greenhouse roof, which helps heating in winter and opens automatically in summer for vented cooling.
- Built into the side of the mountain with a 110-ft-long rock wall giving geothermal heating and a source of constant 52-degree air for pre-cooling and pre-heating house.
- Single fan efficiently drives down heat from greenhouse roof in winter to open area below.
- Green, self-sustaining building, was completely off the grid for ten years using existing solar panels, propane and a back-up generator. Could be reconfigured to do so again.
Call Eva Marie for more information on this property 720.633.4283.
