6136 Chickering Court

For the 13th time in the past 12 months, a single-family home in Davidson County has sold for more than $6 million. This time the sale goes to a newly constructed home in Forest Hills, with Barbara Keith Payne as the listing agent. The buyer was not represented, as is often the case.

Payne, who goes by the double name of Barbara Keith, is Nashville real estate royalty, being the daughter of Allen and Susie Brown, founders of Harpeth Company, a firm that once ruled the residential side of realty.

Barbara Keith listed the house for $6.99 million and sold the house in 24 days for $6.4 million. The house has 8,390 impeccable square feet, as is often the case with Craftsman Residential, the builder. It has five bedrooms, five full bathrooms and two half-baths. The oversized, three-car garage includes a rapid-charge station for electric cars, as is now the norm for luxury-home garages.

Craftsman Residential is well-known for its quality, a characteristic that has gone the way of shag carpet with some cost-cutting builders. Features include 1.75-inch, solid-wood doors, 12-foot ceilings downstairs and 10-foot ceilings upstairs. Each of the bedrooms has its own bathroom.

The oversized kitchen includes the now-mandatory scullery that includes a 36-inch SubZero refrigerator column and a 36-inch SubZero Freezer column. The “column’ refers to the appearance, as they are vertical. But whoever heard of a horizontal refrigerator? SubZero has found an additional adjective to incorporate into appliance descriptions.

Additionally, the scullery includes a wolf drawer microwave, thereby eliminating the swinging doors, and there is a panelized second dishwasher and a full sink to wash those extra dishes.

Before sculleries came into vogue, these appliances would reside in an upscale kitchen. Alas, the kitchen is even more star-studded.

Featuring a 60-inch Wolf range and a paneled SubZero refrigerator/freezer unit equipped with an icemaker and a panelized dishwasher. The lighting and plugs are hidden under the upper cabinets, and there are additional storage cabinets hidden beneath the barstool side of the island. Everything is hidden, making for a year-round Easter egg hunt vibe.

To summarize, there are three SubZero refrigerators, plus a wine cooler and an icemaker, since the refrigerator ice would be unfit for $6 million man and bionic woman to consume. Icemakers often last three of four years, about half as long as the average marriage.

The more well-known the ice maker, the shorter the life span, similar to many celebrity marriages.

The great room has pocketing bar windows leading to an outdoor media/family room that has an Isokern wood-burning fireplace and an indoor/outdoor wet bar.

The guest suite has a zero-entry shower which, which means it is curb less with no bumper between the shower and the rest of the bathroom. This feature was obviously designed and introduced to the market by towel and mat manufactures, as the users will need extra. The floors outside the curbless shower are clean enough to eat from, as they are constantly being bombarded by soap and water.

The gym is outfitted with gym flooring, wall mirrors, an under-counter beverage fridge and a wet bar.

As some may have gathered, this home is for a buyer that leads the lifestyle of the rich and, in Nashville, perhaps famous.

That being the case, 8,390 square feet might not be enough living space. No problem. Craftsman Residential provided an additional 1,500 square feet of walk-in storage that could easily become a room with a name that is unknown to most homeowners.

The room “has been mechanically prepared for future homeowner customization,” Payne writes.

The flooring on the front entry and the covered porch is Peacock Paver, while the driveways are Top-Cast concrete and Techno-Bloc permeable paver stones. The words “pervious and permeable” mean about the same thing, but it seems pervious has fallen out of favor.

With 1,500 square feet of outdoor living space and 1,500 square feet of expansion space, the square-foot price of $763 is irrelevant, as the 3,000 square feet have no value for the price-per-square-foot buffs.

But $6 million buyers are rarely as worried about price per square foot as they are privacy, and this lot has 2.4 acres and a landscape package designed by one of the leading landscape architects in the area.

Richard Courtney is a licensed real estate broker with Fridrich & Clark Realty and can be found at [email protected].