Doctor crafted ‘a home for life’
As Edouard Androssenko showed off his home at 160 Bellingham Road in Brookline earlier this week, he knelt down and pointed to the intricately placed marble tiles in a master bathroom.
“This took a long time,” he said, gesturing to small tiles placed together alongside big squares. Then he held out his two palms and said, “This was done by my hands.”
Androssenko did this a lot during a tour of the newly built, four bedroom home that’s listed for $1.9 million. Trained as a doctor in his native Poland and the longtime owner of Home Doctor Construction in Newton, he put in much of the marble in the bathrooms, and other details, too, such as the wainscoting in the living room.
In fact, he originally built the spacious house for his family to live in, so he crafted much of the fancy ornamentation — such as the moldings, stone tiles and carefully laid cut blue stone wall outside — as part of a plan to use it for decades.
“This is a home for life,” Androssenko said. But at the last minute, he said, his family decided to stay in Newton and Androssenko decided to sell.
Built in what looks like a twostory New Traditional Colonial style, the home has a crossgabled roof and from the street it appears as three triangles, a big one, and two smaller ones topping the pedimented porch and dormer. It all fits in nicely with the scale and architecture of the residential street just around the corner from a public library.
Inside, however, the place is surprisingly grand, making its price seem reasonable. Three of the bedrooms really feel like master bedrooms, and the two on the second floor have complex, angular ceilings that point up with the pitch of the roof. Downstairs, the kitchen and living and dining areas flow together, and the kitchen is upscale with high-end stainless steel appliances and white quartz countertops. In the living area is a contemporary fireplace with a quartz surround. Hardwood floors are throughout the nearly 3,500-square-foot home.
Androssenko appeared to consider all the details, even putting in energy efficient doors and an ultra-high-efficiency water boiler. When he showed the room in the finished basement housing the home’s systems, he was asked what kind of floor was installed there. He looked down and said: “Oh, this is regular marble.”