All the conveniences in W. Roxbury condo
While giving a tour of her family’s home at the gated Allandale condo complex at 206 Allandale Road in West Roxbury, P.A. d’Arbeloff made one thing clear: She loves the convenience of the place.
Just opposite of Allandale Farm, the 43-acre wooded property has a shared gym, pool, clubhouse with kitchen, and tennis court. The parking garage is heated and has an elevator, there’s 24hour security, and there’s even a trash chute just outside her condo door to drop garbage and be done with it.
“It’s so easy to live here. There isn’t a single step in this entire place,” d’Arbeloff said, standing with her white goldendoodle inside the condo this week.
“Tessie and I just walked across the street and got dinner,” she said, as Tessie circled her feet.
Yet, the place — a onefloor, open layout condo listed for $1.3 million — is the size of a house at 2,707 square feet and with three bedrooms and just as many bathrooms.
The combined living and dining area is huge — d’Arbeloff said she’s fit 28 people for Christmas dinner there — and it’s got big windows that open up to the lush greenery outside.
Though the place was constructed in 1989, and it largely looks that way, d’Arbeloff transformed the most important room, the eat-in kitchen, a few years ago with dark gray quartz countertops and peninsula, matching cabinets, stainless steel appliances, and small tile marble backsplashes.
“We basically live here,” she said of the contemporary room.
The other room that got updated a few years ago was the half-bath near the living area, which has a black toilet and a black quartz sink with a glass basin molded and colored in a koi pond motif.
Despite the ’80s design, the carpeted, sunny bedrooms look fine, especially the massive, bright master bedroom and its huge bath — with a shower and jacuzzi-style tub — and many closets (a walk-in plus four).
Two decks, one off the kitchen and the other off the living area, offer an escape into what feels like the countryside, overlooking the estate and the abutting Allandale Woods.
“This is a great place for an empty-nester,” said d’Arbeloff, who raised her two children into their teen years here. “But it’s also great if you’re a young professional and too busy to take care of the gutters … and everything.”