3513 Chilafoux Brownington, VT 05860

Live your Green Homestead Dream with this energy-efficient, Adirondack-style home & attached garage crafted from local logs. It's an ideal homestead, set on 47+ acres with long-range mountain views. Energy Star appliances, granite counters & a large island with breakfast bar in the kitchen, which opens to the dining & living areas with a cathedral ceiling & glass doors out to the deck that wraps around to the covered porch. A bedroom & full bath finish the main level. Upstairs is a master bedroom/loft and 1/2 bath. The partially finished basement has bonus room potential, root / wine cellar & glass doors to a covered brick paver patio. A studio apartment above the detached 2-car garage provides income potential or private guest space. Additional outbuildings: 18'x24' greenhouse with gas heat & irrigation system; Sleeping cabin near pond with woodstove; 30'x40' shop / barn with heat; shelter with custom-built wood-fired oven & pellet boiler; tool/equipment shed. The grounds include about 10 tillable acres, perennial gardens, a pond, and 38 wooded acres with an active forest management plan. Green initiatives include: passive solar orientation, double-glazed Andersen windows, radiant heat, grid-tied solar system with three PV arrays totaling 8.3 MW; low-volume toilets, 1, 000-gallon gray and black water tanks, wood pellet boiler with 4-ton pellet hopper, pellet stoves, and heat pump for hot water. There is a Buderus oil furnace and back-up generator for all systems.