OCEAN CITY — Be the first to track beach sand across the floor of the beautiful new home at 27 Ocean Road in the popular Gardens section of America’s Greatest Family Resort.
Featuring five bedrooms and four bathrooms, plus a wide-open great room and ground-floor cabana space, the home offers exceptional craftsmanship and carefully curated finishes throughout.
Still under construction, the home’s exterior boasts premium roofing, brick veneer, Hardie board siding, fiberglass decks and professionally landscaped grounds.
A new concrete apron and sidewalk line the slate parking pad, where there is space for two cars. The oversized garage makes it three total spots off-street.
A path leads down the left, past the enclosed outside shower and to the backyard, where an in-ground swimming pool is surrounded by a marble patio and bordered on three sides by fencing.
A door off the right side provides access to a lower foyer, where stairs rise to the great room. A hallway leads toward the rear, where the cabana room is just inside double sliding glass doors overlooking the pool and patio.
The interior features custom trim, solid-core doors, a gas fireplace, high-end cabinetry, and granite or quartz countertops. Hardwood and tile flooring, fully tiled bathrooms and modern mechanical systems deliver both comfort and lasting quality.
Back out front, composite steps ascend to the covered front porch, where the main entrance opens into the great room.
Featuring a 9-foot ceiling, the great room has space for a sitting area in the front, where a gas fireplace is accented by wood planks. Two windows in the front and two flanking the fireplace provide abundant natural light.
The kitchen sports white KraftMaid cabinets with granite or quartz countertops and a center island. High-end appliances include a range with a hood.
On the right side of the great room, stairs rise to the top floor and descend to the lower foyer. A knee wall separates the stairs from the dining area, which is set inside three windows facing south and just steps away from the kitchen.
A powder room is conveniently located in the front of a hallway leading to the first bedroom, which is located along the rear of the home with windows overlooking the pool and patio.
The bedroom has three clerestory windows, providing light and air but maintaining privacy, as well as a full bathroom with a tiled shower.
Back in the great room, stairs rise to the top floor, where there are four more bedrooms, three bathrooms and a laundry room.
The room out front has access to the partially covered front porch through a sliding glass door and a private bathroom with a tiled shower.
Moving toward the rear, two more bedrooms are halfway down the hall across from the laundry room and shared bathroom, which has a tub/shower combination with sliding glass doors.
The primary bedroom is in the rear and clearly is the best of the bunch. Featuring a lofty cathedral ceiling with wood planks, it has two clerestory casement windows and a couple of others overlooking the pool. There’s also a full bathroom with a tiled shower and a walk-in closet.
Ocean City is one of the most popular shore resorts on the East Coast, featuring an oceanfront boardwalk filled with hundreds of shopping, dining and entertainment venues, as well as miles and miles of pristine beaches.
A great location doesn’t only mean beachfront or bayfront on this 8-mile-long island — there are 10 distinct neighborhoods, each with its own characteristics.
The home is among the winding, pedestrian-friendly streets of the Gardens, which is a destination rather than a thoroughfare, but close enough to the boardwalk attractions that the scent of caramel popcorn, pizza and other treats wafts by on the gentle breeze.
The beach and boardwalk — 2.5 miles of oceanfront entertainment, restaurants, thrill rides and souvenir shops — get most of the attention in this seaside resort, but the island has much more to offer.
An award-winning downtown stretches from Sixth to 14th streets along Bay Avenue and has expanded onto other nearby streets, offering more than 100 shops and cafes. There’s also the popular watersports district around Third Street on Bay Avenue, where the brave can rent powerboats, go parasailing, join the crew of a pirate ship and take a kayak tour of the back bays. Private and party boat fishing tours are also available.
– By CRAIG D. SCHENCK/Sentinel staff
