See this Dublin mansion with golf course views lists for $3.45 million
Luxurious Dublin mansion with Muirfield Village Golf Club views, modern design, and cozy comforts, featuring a pool, sauna, and more.
A self-proclaimed great golf fan but not-so-great golfer, Butch Peterman has always been charmed by the Estates of Muirfield Village.
The private Dublin neighborhood, perhaps best-known for offering several sizable homes overlooking the Muirfield Village Golf Club, has seen its fair share of Peterman over the years. For the past several decades, Peterman and his family have resided in one of the gated community’s premier golf-viewing estates — an over 13,500-square-foot mansion the family built themselves, overlooking the course’s fifth hole.
Whether it’s sitting on the edge of the lot to watch the Muirfield Tournament unfold from his backyard or hosting a handful of professional golfers when they needed a place to stay, there are many things Peterman will miss about his home of over 30 years.
“We hate leaving this house,” Peterman said. “At the same time, it’s time for someone else to share it, and I hope they enjoy it for as long as we have and even longer.”
Located at 8565 Dunsinane Drive, the Peterman family’s six-bedroom, nine-bathroom estate is on the market for $3.45 million. Sitting on nearly 2.3 acres, the home embodies a contemporary, “true modern” style with its tall ceilings, curved walls, glasswork and open floor plan, said Realtor Alli Close with Cutler Real Estate and The Close Connection.
When he and his family embarked on building the home in 1989, Peterman said it was important to balance a design that was architecturally impressive with comfort. That, he said, is why he calls the house a “chameleon” — it has the breadth and scale of a house meant for hosting large groups while maintaining a homey, warm feel.
“Sometimes, in a big house, people aren’t comfortable,” Peterman said. “As you walk through this house, it’s comfortable. You don’t know why, but the architecture just gives you a feeling without screaming at you, and that is really hard to come by.”
The main level includes a living room with one of the estate’s five fireplaces; a card room for poker and other games next to a brass wet bar; a great room with a built-in saltwater aquarium and wall of windows; the primary bedroom suite; and an attached apartment with its own private entrance, bedroom, bathroom, kitchenette and living space.
Past all these rooms into the backyard is a marble patio, connected to a composite deck and screened-in gazebo, behind which sits a private hot tub.
The second story features four bedroom suites, each with its own full bathroom. The basement, with a designated living room of its own, has a pool table, exercise area, golf room and indoor court space that Close said could be used for racquetball, pickleball, squash or even a basketball half-court.
Like the main floor, the lower level also leads into the backyard. Through the exterior basement doors are the in-ground pool and sauna, past which is what Close described as landscaping that complements the contemporary architectural style.
“It’s just this ultimate entertaining spot; if you wanted to have small parties, large parties, kids over — whatever you wanted to do,” Close said. “It’s stunning.”
Though it’s been on the market since early August, Close said she’s “not nervous” about getting the property sold, adding that homes of this price typically take a little longer to sell than others.
“It’s funny, when people are looking for a contemporary home, they can’t find it; when you go to sell a contemporary home, it’s a little harder to sell, because there’s not as many contemporary buyers,” Close said. “But when those two come together, it is love at first sight.”
Though he may be sad to leave, Peterman said after many years in the home, a new family should be able to enjoy it the way his did.
“It’s a design that will live for a long, long time in terms of a contemporary, open-space, good-feeling kind of location,” Peterman said. “It’s time to share this with others.”
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