Home of the Week
Wide-plank pine flooring, wood trim, and a birch tree trunk in the bathroom give this home a rustic feel.
$750,000
Style ranch
Year built 1975
Square feet 1,066
Bedrooms 2
Baths 1 full
Sewer/Water Public
Taxes $6,623 (2025)
This ranch-style home in Scituate’s Oceanside neighborhood has a blue clapboard exterior that fits into New England — but an interior that suggests the West.
From the wide driveway in front of the house where there’s room to park four cars, there is a 111-square-foot covered porch on the right side of the home. Adding to the New England-style exterior are two dormers jutting from the roof.
The door introduces an open floor plan that combines the living and dining areas. The space serves to highlight a key feature of the home: wide plank pine flooring that creates an atmosphere to match the ranch style. All of the windows are framed by natural wood, the kitchen cabinets are blonde-toned wood, and the pantry is behind a sliding barn door.
The living room has a fireplace with a brick mantel, flanked by a double-hung window on the right, and a central ceiling fan. An exposed beam with a rustic look spans the ceiling.
The dining area connects to the 181-square-foot eat-in kitchen that includes a bump-out for a built-in banquette with padded seats surrounded by double-hung windows. Opposite is an L-shaped collection of solid wood cabinets, stainless steel appliances, and granite-topped counters. There is a gas range, a built-in desk, and some cabinets have clear glass windows. There is recessed lighting and track lighting.
The dining area has French doors leading out to the 332-square-foot deck overlooking the flat, fenced-in backyard.
From the kitchen, a doorway opens to a 7-foot-long hallway that connects to the two bedrooms at the front of the house, but also leads to the one full bath and the laundry room in the rear of the home.
The 110-square-foot bathroom occupies the far left corner of the house. It features a double vanity with sage-colored cabinets and a granite vanity top. Above is a long rectangular mirror along with a light fixture with a variety of multiple clear glass shades.
Between the vanity and the shower/bath combination is a truly unique accent: a decorative piece of a birch tree rises from floor to ceiling.
The shower/bath combination has a white tub in a fully tiled surround with the walls covered by stone-style tiles. There is a skylight above.
There is a double-hung window with wood trim. The flooring is tile.
The two bedrooms are at the end of the hall, and can also be accessed directly from the living room through a second hallway.
The primary bedroom is 157 square feet, and has a pair of double-hung windows located on the front exterior of the home, and a third on the right wall. Above the windows is a windowed dormer. There is a central fan/light fixture and a double closet with bifold doors. Flooring is the wide-planked pine.
The second bedroom is only slightly smaller at 153 square feet with a pair of double hung windows in the front wall along with a windowed dormer. The closet is in a nook in a corner of the bedroom. The flooring is also pine.
There is no basement.
Scituate Harbor is about a 12-minute walk from the front door. The home has forced hot-air heating and central air conditioning.
Jeffrey Serowick of Coldwell Banker Real Estate has the listing.
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