I've enjoyed communicating with you over the years; and, have always included my own photos here and in my bi-weekly newsletter.

Prior to my career in real estate, I was a professional affiliate of the American Institute of Architects, as an Architectural Photographer. I've decided to return to photography; and, have resigned from Coldwell Banker Carlson Real Estate. I've built a new website to generate business from realtors, architects, and builders.

For those of you who’ve subscribed to my real-estate bi-weekly newsletter, I've transferred your name and eMail address to my friend and colleague, Jeff Beattie (jeff@jeffbeattie.com) who is a stellar Realtor® at Coldwell Banker Carlson Real Estate! 

Sincerely,
 --Charlie Aronovici
charlie@perfectperspective.com
www.perfectperspective.com

Maple Run Barn has long been a fixture in Johnson. With a variety of businesses in the 2 out-buildings over the years; and, a lovingly tended-to single-family home with an apartment (on the 2nd-floor) in the old ice-cream building, it's as neat as a pin.

The original barn, with horse stalls, no longer an antiques business, now provides an abundance of storage; or, even the possibility for a variety of retail or business opportunities.

You'll even have to decide if you want to gaze at the mountain views to the southwest, which are spectacular year-round; or, to meander through a variety of trails throughout the property up and behind the main house. A large workshop is on the first-floor east end of the main house.

See the rest of the photos and listing information here.

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My California buyer is an avid cross-country skier — he bought this property near the Craftsbury Nordic Center, where he plans to build his own cross-country trails on the 72+ acres behind the house! The house is a 4-bedroom log home with an efficiency apartment above the 2-car garage.

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(802) 730-4343 / send me an eMail

(my old friend and former colleague, Rick Sokoloff, is the Stowe Mountain Resort ski instructor in this article)

STOWE, VT — A funny thing happens every November in the Boston Globe newsroom. My editor mentions that our annual ski issue is coming up, and I make like one of David Copperfield’s rabbits and magically disappear. 

I bear no ill will toward skiing. I have fond memories of sitting in ski lodges and eating nachos, as one does on a ski weekend. But the problem with going skiing is that eventually I’m expected to clip horribly uncomfortable boots to a pair of waxed up planks and go down a hill in the frostbite-inducing cold. I’m convinced this sport is the brainchild of some sort of Arctic Marquis de Sade. 

I’m not saying this as a passive observer. I was a member of my high school ski club, which meant that I climbed on a bus every Monday night, snowplowed my way through a couple of rounds on the bunny hill, and then retired to the lodge with a plate of nachos while watching “Designing Women.” Like a peacock in a parka, I left every ski tag on my jacket through the season, hoping the paper plumage gave the colorful illusion that I was tearing up the slopes.

Read the rest of the article at the Boston Globe.

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This Covered Bridge Townhouse has been impeccably maintained, and is just 5 minutes from the Stowe Mountain Resort; and, a short walk to Trapp Family Lodge right out the front door. Custom features throughout include hardwood floors on both levels, cherry cabinetry and granite counter tops. A covered deck just off the dining room, leads to the large open deck that affords Spruce Peak views. Those same views can be enjoyed from the kitchen, dining room, living room; and, the master bedroom on the 2nd floor. The living room has the views as well as a beautiful and large stone fireplace with wood burning insert. There’s easy access to hiking and mountain-biking trails just a short walk or ride from the front door. The new owners can’t wait to enjoy the outdoor pool and tennis court in the summer and easy access to the mountain in the winter. And, Stowe's famous Recreation Path is within walking distance. The new owners can’t wait to take advantage of it all!

Can I help you find (or sell) yours?
Call or write for more information
(802) 730-4343 / send me an eMail

This Seller has been commuting far, far away from Hyde Park, every day for years! I sold her house; and she moved close to work — really close. She now has so much time on her hands every morning, that she can actually relax with her cup of coffee. I wonder if she’s still listening to books on tape….

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Call or write for more information; or, to arrange a visit
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303 Fitch Hill Road

This charming Cottage with a separate Studio/Guest House on 12+ acres is the only residential property of its kind in the Village of Hyde Park. A large old mailbox marks the only driveway on Fitch Hill without the home in sight. As you turn off the paved road into the driveway and go 'round the bend, you'll drive out from under the tunelled trees as you arrive at the Cottage and Studio.

See the details and the rest of the 35 interior and exterior photos here.

Can I help you find yours?
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This 2-bedroom, 1-bath home, has long been a special getaway for the Sellers and their now-grown children. With them grown and gone, it's just been sold to a family with young children who will enjoy it for years to come. It's situated on 5.24 acres, with a pond, and close to the Green River reservoir. The Master bedroom has a sleeping porch that overlooks the pond.

Can I help you find yours?
charlie@experiencestowe.com ☆ (802) 730-4343

65 Congress Street, Morrisville, VT

65 Congress Street, Morrisville, VT

Entrance Hall

Entrance Hall with Fireplace

Grand Staircase

Living Room Turret

Living Room Turret

Living Room

Dining Room looking out

Dining Room looking in

Sitting Room or ideal Home Office space with an abundance of outlets

1st Floor Half Bath

Kitchen looking out

Kitchen looking to porch on side yard

Guest suite with full bath

Circular drive thru Port Cochere

Front Porch

Front Porch

Grand Staircase at the turn

Grand Staircase looking toward the 2nd-floor hall

Master Bedroom Turret

Master Bedroom

Master Bath with Soaking Tub

Bedroom #2

Bedroom #3

Bedroom #4

2nd Floor Guest Bath

2nd Floor Guest Bath

Bedroom #5

Carriage House - make it what you will!

from the Kitchen Porch

From the side yard

Side yard

All photos © 2017 Charlie Aronovici

There's a saying that says there is a buyer for every home. Some homes take longer than others to find that one buyer. I'm delighted to show you this Morrisville home that closed yesterday, after a little more than a year on the market. And the buyers? It was like a match made in heaven -- in addition to the house, they bought, with a separate agreement, most of the furnishings, which had been chosen, by the sellers, to make the restoration complete.

Can I help you find yours?
charlie@experiencestowe.com ☆ (802) 730-4343

#6E is on the right in this photo

Village Walk is a community of seven elegant Townhomes nestled in the heart of historic Stowe. With all the conveniences of village living — shopping and dining within walking distance, these superbly well designed and constructed homes blend traditional Vermont Farmhouse style exteriors with contemporary floor plans and modern amenities. After a day of exploring all that Stowe has to offer, the new owners, who've just downsized, are looking forward to local skiing and mountain biking.

Can I help you find yours?
charlie@experiencestowe.com ☆ (802) 730-4343

Thoughts from the Seller:

"Over 60 years ago, my grandmother bought an early 1800s farmhouse on Stannard Mountain and brought it to Greensboro where she lovingly restored it. Soon after, my mother acquired an even older schoolhouse in Walden and moved it just a stone’s throw from the farmhouse. I've long enjoyed this graceful home and its deeded easement to the lake. The farmhouse embraces you with a charming & cozy sense of 19th-century living, wide floorboards with wormholes, a wood stove in the dining room; a fireplace in the living room to warm on cold nights; and, a kitchen with custom cabinets & skylights..."

Read the rest of the story here.                                                                                                                               All photos © 2018 Charlie Aronovici 

with a wood-burning fireplace

...and a wood-burning stove for cool summer nights

through the mud room and into the lightest and brightest kitchen. Use the space as a home office or as an eat-in-kitchen

overlooking the expansive front lawn towards Caspian Lake

a with private full bath

...with a full bath on the left

which is attached to the house

...put your grill here!

to the 200 year-old schoolhouse, now a guest house with 3 bedrooms

...with a door to the deck on the back of the Schoolhouse

...with spaces for twin beds on both sides of the window

...an active VRBO getaway

…warmed with a wood stove, a perfect quiet retreat

Can I help you find yours?
charlie@experiencestowe.com ☆ (802) 730-4343

by Shifrah Combiths
at ApartmentTherapy.com
Mar 19, 2018

I grew up being taught that bed sheets were supposed to be washed once a week. Now, with five beds that have people sleeping in them every night, I admit that I don't get this chore done every single week. But it nags at me; that one-week timeline is etched into my sense of responsibility. I wanted to find out if washing, say, every other week is really that horrible and what I'm chancing if I stretch the prescribed weekly routine a bit.

Washing bedding is obviously very important for overall cleanliness. If you think about it, your sheets are almost like an article of clothing you wear every single day. And most of us wouldn't wear the same shirt more than a couple times without washing it. Pants, yes, might go a bit longer. But depending on how much you wear while you're sleeping, your sheets are more or less a pretty intimate garment insofar as contact with our bodies goes.

Not only so, but our beds provide a unique environment for a host of unpleasant microscopic entities to thrive. According to Business Insider, we produce about 26 gallons of sweat each year as we sleep. These moist, warm conditions, complete with human skin cells as a food source create an ideal home for bacteria, fungus, viruses, and allergens.

Microbiologist Philip Tierno of New York University told Business Insider that our beds can quickly become a "botanical park" of bacteria and fungus. In addition, a study published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunologyfound that of thousands of American homes, almost 75 percent of households had 3 to 6 allergens present in their bedrooms. Even if you don't have allergies, these allergens, especially when you're snuggled up to them in bed, can produce allergic responses like sniffing and sneezing.

Tierno says that all the undesirable junk in our sheets can become "significant" in as little as a week and recommends weekly washing:

No. No, I don't.

Finish reading the article here.

What makes a ski bar a legend? It’s the abundance of good times, year after year, and the people who bring those good times into your life.

[The source article is about 4 legendary Ski Bars -- this blog entry, however, includes only The Matterhorn in Stowe.]

THE MATTERHORN

On a night when cars are parked up and down the Mountain Road and there’s a line at the door of The Matterhorn, Charlie Shaffer has an air of perpetual calm. It may be getting rowdy with a gang doing shots going at one end the bar. The dance floor may be a mosh pit. There may be a skinny-dipping challenge in the river just off the back deck. Shaffer takes it all in with an impish, bemused smile. He greets the regulars with a pat on the arm, and a “good to see you, did you ski today,” runs a hand through his tousled hair and steps back into the kitchen to check on things.

Meanwhile, Louise Shaffer deftly rolls sushi in the sushi/martini bar on the lower level, facing big windows and the river. As Charlie says, “the fish comes off the same boat that serves restaurants in Boston. It gets there at 11 and it is here by 5 pm.”

The Matterhorn, a perennial favorite in national “best ski bars in the U.S.” lists, is a near-mandatory watering hole for any skier headed down the Mountain Road from Mt. Mansfield. It’s has been an institution since the 1950s, hosting the Monkees, members of The Grateful Dead and NFL star Doug Flutie and the Flutie Brothers band (whom Charlie sometimes sings with). After being a regular customer, Charlie, a  Boston skier who had a weekend house share in Stowe, bought the place in 1996.  Soon after, he lost his job as a trader and moved up  full time. “It used to be a little more wild here,” he says. “But then again, so were we.”

Locals Jake and Donna Carpenter, and Burton’s posse of pro riders, are regulars. One night this past January, Ethan Hawke stopped in. Harvey Keitel threw his son’s birthday party here —and sent a video to the kid’s godfather, Robert DeNiro.

The Matterhorn has also been the scene of a (predictable) cat fight on Season Seven of the “Real Housewives of New Jersey” (aired in 2016).  In describing the episode, E! Online called the ‘Horn, “A restaurant in the midst of what seems to be an identity crisis (seriously, it looked like a barn and inexplicably served buffalo wings and sushi).”

What they missed is the knack that Charlie, who used to work on the floor of the Boston Stock Exchange, and Louise have for making just about everyone feel at home—be it a fur-clad New Yorker sipping a martini or a 20-year-old liftie downing a Heady Topper.

Over the bar hang mugs belonging to regulars. “We save the mugs for people who work around here and really give back to the community —patrollers ski instructors and such,”  Charlie says. They come and bring their 60-year-old private lesson clients. They bring their friends and kids with them. And then they leave (or not) and the music cranks up and a new crowd shuffles in.

“A lot of the people you see here have been coming here since they were in their 20s,” Shaffer says. “I can’t tell you how many met their wives or husbands here.”  He looks around and smiles. “Toni and Eileen Bowen, a couple in their late 70s who drive up from Montauk, Long Island, are long-time customers who have become some of our best friends and they bring their kids and grandkids,” Charlie says.  “The people I have met in this community and the friends we have made here are just incredible.”

At the back of the bar, beyond two pool tables, kids in ski gear are slamming quarters into a pinball machine. A crew that just skied down the backwoods Bruce Trail (which spills out a hundred feet up the road) has hoofed it in to grab a beer.

The après crowd segues seamlessly into the family dinner crowd, then into a late-night singles scene as the bands shift from one beat to the next. Charlie drums his fingers on the bar to the beat and smiles. No matter how crazy it gets, he always seems to be having a good time. “Perhaps the best thing about owning The Matterhorn is you get to see your friends at work all the time,” he says. “There are some nights when I’m getting ready to go home and in walk some friends, and then I know I’m gonna stay and have a beer with them.” —Lisa Lynn

Read the complete article, which includes Chez Henri (at the base of Lincoln Peak near Sugarbush), the Pickle Barrel (Killington), and the Red Fox Inn (within 10 miles of Stratton Mountain Resort, Bromley and Magic Mountain)

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Stowe is where the kids and parents can ski, ride and explore the mountain together. Book your trip at
https://www.stowe.com/plan/lodging/

by Nancy Mitchell
Senior Writer • Apartment Therapy • New York, NY
December 31, 2017

The beginning of the year is a time of new things, of fresh starts. If you're feeling the urge to try something a little different in your home, we've got 11 ideas to help you shake up your look.

1. Paint the inside of your bookshelves

An idea we're stealing from The Design Chaser. Would also work to paint a wall before putting up shelving.

2. Hang art in an unexpected spot

A Paris apartment spotted on AirBnB keeps things grounded, and though certainly not a look for most people, it's a surefire way to make your ceilings look extra high in comparison.

3. Paint your ceiling

Earlier this month, Pinterest reported that painted and statement ceilings are going to be all the rage in 2018. Be a step ahead by tackling this project before the new year (warning: this is only for those without popcorn texture).

4. Hang a collection on the wall

Spotted on Domino, here's a great way to display some of your beloved collections. Dust off that hoard of guitars/globes/paperweights and either hang them straight on the wall, or on a shelf.

Read this complete apartment therapy article and the remaining 7 fresh ideas here.

2017 Year-End Stowe Area Report
including Details for Stowe, Waterbury, and all of Lamoille County

Our 2017 Year-End Market Report uses market-wide data, based on transactions that closed in 2017 in our Multiple Listing Service; and, compares them to sales that took place during the same time period in 2016, providing the most comprehensive market analysis in the area.

Read the complete report here.

Call (802-730-4343) or write
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For my fellow mountain- and road-bikers, I just added a resource, from Bikemunk, for bike riders at the bottom of a Stowe Patrol article I wrote back in September of 2016.

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]]>Charlie AronoviciMon, 08 Jan 2018 21:19:41 +0000https://www.apartmenttherapy.com/good-home-decluttering-habits-25422151e7450ee4b072b82b77a102:5212beace4b0ed96c815a599:5a53dba44192022c4c668343I think my wife wrote this article under a pen name. No one else could have described my decluttering short-comings so accurately! I'm going to get it right this time.

by Shifrah Combiths
Apartment Therapy
January 7, 2018

Each of us have personal feelings about cleaning and home keeping. But what remains remarkably similar across the board are the trouble spots that we all find tricky to solve. Which, by extension, means that those perpetually organized people who never seem to have the stuff explosions most of us fall prey to have found successful ways to address these very same sticking points.

They have a system for incoming paper and mail

Nothing multiplies like paper piles. People who stay on top of paper clutter have a system that works and that they stick to. Such systems might include:

• Walking straight to the recycling bin when mail is in-hand and tossing circulars, offers, and other junk straight into it. 
• Dealing with time-sensitive papers right away. The field trip permission form gets signed within the first ten minutes your kid puts it on your desk, for instance. You don't have to remember to turn it in later, and the paper is back in your child's folder and out of sight. 
• Treating kids' paper deliveries like the mail. While it's in your hand, recycle what you don't need, take care of papers that require action right away, and store or photograph art that you might want to save. 
• Have a place for everything else. Bills that you can't deal with right away, insurance documents you have to make phone calls about, and papers you plan to file in Evernote — these need a basket or bin to contain them. The only way to keep this spot from growing out of control is to have a designated, regular time to deal with these papers. Organized people all do it.

They have a system for not-quite dirty clothes

Clothes that have been worn but don't yet need to be washed are a clean bedroom's and picked-up closet's downfall. You've got to have a plan and place for them or these clothes will end up slung over chairs and/or pooled on the closet floor. Wardrobe Purgatory: Where to Store Your Worn (But Not Dirty) Clothes has some great suggestions and tools to help, including over-the-door hooks, stands, and racks.

They have a daily routine to clear their most common surfaces

Surfaces are breeding grounds for clutter and if they aren't cleared off vigilantly, they'll always be cluttered. Think of your bathroom counter, kitchen counters, and dining room table for starters. Make certain spaces off-limits for the entire family as a set-down spot (for instance, the dining room table), and address the other surfaces nightly. Put bathroom and kitchen counter items back where they belong or corral things that must remain out on trays. Remember that that first thing you place on the counter because you don't want to put it away invites more items to join it, so resist the urge.

Read this article at Apartment Therapy.

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Curated by the Stowe Area Association

Looking for the quintessential New England experience this winter? Dreaming of carving fresh pow on the trails? Here are five ways to experience what National Geographic calls one of "The World's Best Ski Towns" this winter:

1. Play at the mountain. Stowe Mountain Resort has the most skiing and riding terrain open in the east, with 82 inches of fresh snowfall this season and state-of-the-art snowmaking producing optimal skiing and riding conditions. Explore other activities at the resort, like ice skating or relaxing by an outdoor fireplace, while absorbing the natural beauty of Mt. Mansfield–the highest peak in Vermont. Take the complimentary Stowe Mountain Road Shuttle to and from your hotel room. 
2. More snowy fun. Winter has arrived, and with more snow in the forecast, there are other winter activities to enjoy, like snowmobiling, sleigh rides; and, dog sledding. Snowshoeing, cross-country skiing and backcountry skiing are also popular with Stowe's world-class Nordic trail system and variety of trails nearby. Need gear? Pick up equipment rentals and other sports gear and apparel in town.
3. Festive activities. Holiday shopping is an adventure in Stowe. Find the perfect gift for your family and friends during Reindeer Quest (through December 24). #ShopStowe and win prizes as you collect snowflake stamps at Stowe shops. Enjoy a live holiday performance, children's activities, cooking and food demonstrations, New Year's Eve celebrations and other events.
4. Eat, drink and be merry. Ranked one of the "World's 10 Best Ski Towns for Foodies" by Fodor's Travel, Stowe is home to a variety of dining establishments and craft beverage producers. Sample craft beverages on the Stowe Craft Bev Trail and other local flavors on the Stowe Tasting Trail.
5. Plan your stay. Stowe offers quality accommodations for every taste and budget. Solidify your winter plans with the Midwinter Getaway or the Extend Your Weekend lodging offers. Not sure where to start? Visit us online at gostowe.com, call us at (800) 467-8693 or stop by the Visitor Information Center while in town. Exclusive discounts for lodging, activities, equipment rentals and events are available year-round.

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