Rehabbed house gains suite space

This four-bedroom, single-family Colonial in Cambridgeport has undergone an architect-designed total rehab, opening up the living spaces and bedrooms and adding a basement-level au pair/in-law suite.

The 2,875-square-foot home at 32 Decatur St. features Brazilian cherrywood floors throughout, formal living and dining rooms with an open gas fireplace between them, a black granite and maple kitchen and redone master bedroom suite. It’s on the market for $1.399 million.

The exterior of the house has new olive-painted clapboard siding, white trim and all-new windows and roof. It’s surrounded by fencing and has landscaped areas, a brick driveway and granite-paver patio.

You enter the home into a cherrywood foyer with a closet that holds the home’s new forced-air gas heating and central air-conditioning system.

To the right through a French door are formal living and dining rooms with cherrywood floors, recessed lighting and lots of windows. The two rooms are semi-divided by a wall with a two-sided gas fireplace. The dining room features a built-in storage cabinet/bar.

To the left of the foyer, through a second French door is a kitchen rehabbed and expanded with a den/dining area in 2008. This recessed-lit space also has lots of windows, including a three-bay window bumpout. There are 21 maple cabinets (many large pantry sized), Absolut black granite counters and island and Jenn-Air stainless-steel appliances, including a double-door refrigerator, dishwasher and four-burner gas stove with a fluted hood. The den/dining area has a antique-style cast-iron gas fireplace and glass doors out to a mahogany-decked back porch.

The porch leads down to a fenced-in granite paver patio with a trellis gate leading to a small landscaped back yard.

Back inside, there’s also a ceramic-tiled half bath near a staircase that leads up to three bedrooms on the second floor. The master bedroom suite has cherrywood floors, recessed lighting, a vaulted ceiling and a cast-iron antique fireplace. There’s a walk-in closet space and the master bathroom has black ceramic tile floors and white tile walls for a walk-in shower with a just-added glass door.

The second bedroom has vaulted ceilings and recessed lighting. But the third bedroom is smaller. In between is a full ceramic-tiled bath.

The current owners dug down into the basement to create a 900-square-foot au pair/in-law suite, with black ceramic tile floors. There’s a living room, with a bath off to one side, a kitchen with functional cabinets and average appliances, and a bedroom with a full bathroom that has its own stacked washer and dryer. The suite has a ground-level private entrance.

There’s also a separate laundry room in the basement for the main house.