About this Property
Overview
Extensive updates for 2024, learn more below!
It's all about living the good life at La Vita Bella, a vacation estate boasting Italian marble throughout, hand-painted murals, oil paintings, and custom iron balustrades. Professionally decorated with custom furnishings, this home features an array of popular amenities, including bedrooms with Simmons Beautyrest mattresses and private bathrooms, a rec room with a pool table, a cinema-style home theater with Smart TV streaming capability, a sound system that flows from the great room to the media den and out to the poolside cabana, a golf cart, and a pool area with a cabana, sauna, and a TV. Just south of the center of Duck Village, this home is a short bike ride or easy walk to all the excitement in town, which offers excellent restaurants and bars, fun boutiques, watersports activities, and seasonal town-sponsored events such as outdoor movies, fitness classes, and concerts.
Attention, dog lovers! This home will be pet-friendly starting 10/19/24 and for the 2025 season. Up to two dogs will be allowed for an additional fee.
Ground Floor
- Rec room with pool table and sports bar
- Theater
- Laundry room with Gazelle elliptical
- Bedroom with two pyramid bunks and private bath
The ground floor recreation room features a tray ceiling with a hand-painted mural, mahogany paneled wainscoting, billiard table, foosball table, game table, TV, and surround sound. The custom bar is equipped with a sink, refrigerator, dishwasher, microwave, commercial ice maker, and bar seating. A grand cinema-style theater provides guests with an HD 119" projection screen, Harmony remote, and reclining theater seats for eight. Begin each morning with the Gazelle elliptical and free weights in the laundry room. A bedroom with a private bath is furnished with two pyramid bunks and a Roku TV. This room is ideally located for those who enjoy late-night entertainment.
A door from the rec room leads to outdoor amenities with landscaped grounds, poolside music, a sculpted fiber optic-lit private pool, and a built-in hot tub. A poolside cabana is finished with travertine and marble and equipped with a wet bar, mini fridge, sauna, full bath, TV, and custom stone gas fireplace. The sheltered hammock on the poolside deck makes the perfect spot to escape from the sun but still enjoy some fresh air.
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First Floor
- Media den
- Four kings with private baths
A hand-painted glass elevator provides ease of access throughout the levels of this home. The first floor opens to a den that functions as an additional living area, appointed with a hand-painted ceiling mural and furnished with a sofa, two swivel chairs, a coffee table, Roku TV, a seasonal gas fireplace, and a built-in desk. Four king bedrooms on this level provide direct covered deck access, private baths, and Roku TVs.
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Second Floor
- Great room
- Dining area
- Kitchen
- California king with private bath
An elegant great room has designer furnishings, a seasonal gas fireplace, and a Roku TV with surround sound. The kitchen is well equipped for ease in meal preparations, offering two refrigerators, two dishwashers, three ovens, two cooktops, commercial ice maker, beverage fridge, microwave, coffee maker, Keurig, and bar seating for casual dining. Serve meals in the dining area with a table for ten guests or breakfast nook with a table for four. A central half bath is conveniently located for guest use. A bedroom with a California-king bed completes this floor and provides a private bath with a whirlpool spa and a glass block shower with marble.
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Updates for 2024: New flooring in all bedrooms, in the kitchen, in the great room, and in the laundry room, new cooktop in the kitchen, new great room sofas, fresh paint, artwork, and new light fixtures in the 2nd floor half bath, new furniture and fresh paint in the 1st floor media den, new light fixtures in the dining area, the pool seating area was expanded, the rec room pool table and poker table were refelted, and the house, cabana, and pool area fence received fresh paint in a new color. The two double beds on the ground level have been replaced with two pyramid bunks (twin over double beds).
Updates for 2023: All new bedding and artwork throughout, fresh paint in the bedrooms with private baths; the arches were removed from the great room to open up the living space, new exterior lighting, fresh paint and light fixtures in the cabana bath, new roof (and the cabana's rooftop deck was replaced with a normal roof), six new polywood chaise loungers, new hammock, fresh paint in the rec room half bath, and two new refrigerators, new dishwasher, and a new Keurig in the kitchen.
Updates for 2022: New Roku TVs in the great room, in the four first floor bedrooms and den, and in the ground level bedroom. New pool liner.
Pool: Pool heated by heat pump. Ambient air temperature of 60 degrees or higher is needed to heat the pool, meaning that if the temperature drops below 60 degrees the pump will not continue to heat. Max pool temperature is 80 degrees.
EV Charger: A payment of approximately $0.45/kWh is required to use the onsite charger. Payment is made via a QR-code available on the charger at the house.
Golf Cart: Please note that the golf cart is not "street legal" and can only be driven on side streets (to/from the beach). Only street legal golf carts can be driven on Duck Road. Golf carts are not allowed on sidewalks.
Golf: Guests of this home can enjoy discounted green fees at Kilmarlic Golf Club, a Tom Steele designed course in Powell's Point. Enjoy exclusive K Club benefits compliments of the homeowner, including discounted green fees (reserve tee times in advance), and reduced costs for Wild Horse Tours, Kitty Hawk Kites adventures, and more. Learn more about the K-Club benefits by visiting their website. The K Club concierge can be reached at 252.491.2841 to reserve a tee time.
Please Note: Although the elevator travels between all three floors, there is no ground floor access to this home.
Rebooking Note: This property accepts reservations more than one year in advance and is not held for subsequent year rebooking. Please review our rebooking policy for additional information.
