SACO – Almost in the middle of Saco Bay’s seven-mile stretch of sandy beach, here is a stunning year-round oceanfront home with 47 feet on the water, and glorious views – northeast to Cape Elizabeth, southeast to Biddeford Pool, and due south out to rocky Eagle Island a mile offshore, and beyond to the open Atlantic.

Once this was the site of a 1930s cottage. A year-round home was built in the mid-1990s, and just last year expanded and updated. And the half-acre lot – on which the house is set just 120 feet from the water, and about the same back from the street – was improved, with a fenced side patio and many seagrass and other plantings enhancing very natural landscaping. A deck near the water, a patio with fire pit, and an enclosed outdoor shower are among the amenities.

Inside, the open-plan main living area has full-view doors and big windows to maximize ocean views. Flooring is low-maintenance tile that perfectly duplicates hardwood. The beachy, granite-and-beadboad kitchen has Kitchen Aid stainless appliances including gas range, and a two-level, L-shaped bar with microwave and wine cellar built in, and sandy-tile backsplash matching the wall’s. Everything is custom. For informal dining, there’s a corner banquette with hardwood seating and beadboard half-walls.

Upstairs, the new, gorgeous full bath has a jet soaking tub and a granite-topped vanity whose undermount oval sinks have a makeup space between them. There are three bedrooms, with the two “on the ocean” bedrooms opening to the deck.

Accessed by both the wraparound balcony and by a private, skylit back stairway, the master (or guest/in-law) suite measures just over 500 square feet, enjoys fabulous ocean views, and has its own inconspicuous, wall-hung heat/AC unit (one of three in the home).

Either the vaulted-ceiling front room, or the cathedral-ceiling, double-closet back room, makes a perfect bedroom; an elegant full bath serves them. Downstairs, the mudroom with lovely sea-foam-green tile accesses garage, good-sized laundry room, and another full bath.

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The home at 239 Seaside Ave., Saco, is listed for sale at $1,195,000 by Jane and Garry Smith of Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage in Portland.

For more information or to arrange a private viewing, please contact Jane and Garry at 253-3195, 838-2011,  Jane.Smith@NEMoves.com; or 253-3185, 838-2166, Garry.Smith@NEMoves.com.

Produced by the Marketing Department of the Maine Sunday Telegram, the Home of the Week is provided at no cost.

Staff photos by Derek Davis. Courtesy photos by John Hutchings.

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