Laid-Back Living in a Custom-Built Brick Ranch in Eagle Heights

The ranch architectural style is like jazz and great cheeseburgers -- it’s an art form unique to America. Low-slung ranch homes were first built in the 1930s and spent the next four decades popping up like mushrooms all over the countryside. Ranch homes are now enjoying a return to vogue, mostly as custom-built homes. Ranch homes are synonymous with laid-back living. They emphasize the family-friendly backyard, usually connected to the kitchen or den area and leading to a patio or deck. It’s hard to picture a ranch house without a barbecue grill out back, isn’t it? Let Realtor® Greg Rapp with Salisbury Real Estate show you what laid-back living can be all about!

Welcome to 427 Wake Drive in Salisbury, North Carolina! 

You'll experience the definition of laid-back living in this solid custom-built, all brick,  ranch home.  This 3-bedroom home sits on almost a half-acre in the Eagle Heights subdivision toward the outskirts of the city of Salisbury. Though ranch homes originated in the 1930s, they were ahead of their time in featuring the wide, open-concept floor-plans that are in vogue today. An open ranch house floor-plan makes it easier to entertain, bringing together the kitchen, living room, and dining room, and helps capture natural light in every room of the house. And with their brick exterior, just one floor, and a low-pitched roofline, ranch homes make for easier exterior maintenance and repair. With these key benefits of living in a ranch house, it’s not hard to see why more and more people are growing interested in ranch style home designs. 

The details:

Enter 427 Wake Drive through a handsome front entry, and you'll head to the right to a spacious, sun-filled living room - dining room combo. New Andersen windows welcome loads of natural daylight in to this warm, open room. 

The eat-in kitchen boasts a classic and cheerful black and white check floor, with lots of walnut cabinetry, paneled wainscoting and chair rail, and a charming breakfast nook. 

A wonderful sprawling wood-paneled den with tile flooring (easy upkeep!) leads to a 12x16 deck overlooking the spacious, graciously sloping, fenced back yard.

The home was professionally landscaped by Godley's Garden Center in 2012 with handsome specimen shrubs and an impressive red Japanese maple. Rain barrels collect water from the gutters. The driveway leads to a carport and storage shed/workshop at the rear of the home.

427 Wake Drive, a circa 1981 home, has a newer roof (approx 2018), an approximately 11-year old HVAC system, and a newer water softener system. 

Like the concept of the classic ranch house, 427 Wake Drive embraces open spaces and the connection between indoor and outdoor living. The architectural art form was pioneered in such a way so that each room could benefit from sunshine and warm breezes, with doors and windows designed to let in as much light and view as possible while connecting the living space directly to outdoor spaces. And...the desirable Eagle Heights subdivision welcomes you into a mature neighborhood with winding roads and mature shade trees ~ close to the Salisbury Greenway, Novant Health Rowan Regional Hospital, and a short drive to Salisbury's vibrant downtown with restaurants, unique shops, nightlife, and the new $13M Bell Tower Green city park.

To get your laid-back living adventure started, call Greg Rapp with Salisbury Real Estate LLC: 704.213.6846.  Your personal tour of your new ranch home awaits!  427 Wake Drive is calling you home!

427 Wake Drive
Salisbury NC 28144
CMLS #3880302
$259,000

Greg Rapp 
Salisbury Real Estate LLC 
704 213 6846 Mobile 
GregRappRealtor@gmail.com 
www.realestatesalisbury.net 

Beautiful Ranch on Large Wooded Lot ~ For Sale with Greg Rapp

The Ranch-Style home never gets old! Whether your focus is the practical or the beautiful, ranch style homes are made to be forever homes. They're functional, easy to maintain and easy for most homeowners to personalize. With a low profile and accessible spaces, ranch homes have it all!

Welcome to 187 Spring Oak Drive in Salisbury, North Carolina!  This 3 bedroom/2 bath ranch home nestled in a quiet wooded has lots to offer!  Let's start with the rocking chair front porch that spans the width of this one-story 1,351 square foot home. 

The popular open-style floor plan with combo kitchen - dining - living room creates a welcoming spacious feeling, and the cook is never hidden away from guests!  And speaking of cooks:  The kitchen offers excellent work space, a pantry-style closet and a terrific work island with outlets for all your gadgets and appliances! 

The owners' suite provides a separate vanity just outside of the more 'functional' bathroom and offers a over-sized walk-in closet.

A large laundry room could double as a second pantry or will just come in handy for extra storage. 

All three bedrooms feature brand new carpeting, installed 2021!  

An expansive elevated rear deck overlooks the .65 acre wooded lot and gently sloping back yard. 

187 Spring Oak Road has been freshly painted both inside and out and has a recently installed new roof (2014) ~ with new gutters too!  The well-pump was replaced in 2018.  The property also offers a good sized 2-car garage with extra storage above, new garage doors, tracks and motors. 

As our lives change, so do the ways we use our home. Ranch style homes with bedrooms that are all on one floor offer the greatest flexibility for life style changes. Today, it may be a bedroom, but for empty nesters, it may become an office. Wouldn’t it be nice to have that sewing/craft room on the first floor? How about a formal game room or parlor once junior moves out? 

Is it time to consider a Ranch-Style home to add flexibility to YOUR life-style? If so, it's time to give Realtor® Greg Rapp / Salisbury Real Estate a call: 704.213.6846 gets it done!

187 Spring Oak Drive

Salisbury, North Carolina 28147

CMLS#3756338

$239,900

Greg Rapp 
Salisbury Real Estate LLC 
704 213 6846 Mobile 
GregRappRealtor@gmail.com 
www.realestatesalisbury.net 

Ranch Living at its Best! 2400+ Square Foot Brick Ranch for Sale!

This is ranch living at its very best in a pretty, rolling neighborhood with winding roads and gorgeous homes! This beautiful brick ranch offers a fantastic floor plan that makes its 2,406 square feet feel even more spacious! Welcome to 105 Oakview Drive, in Salisbury, North Carolina ~ offered by Greg Rapp with Wallace Realty!

Bathed in warm neutral shades, the sprawling living room has room for plush furniture and more, featuring a vaulted ceiling and fireplace, with large picture window filling the space with natural light.

French doors off the entry hall lead to the attractive dining room, again in soothing neutrals, complete with crown molding and chair rail trim. Handsome wood floors connect the spaces.

The kitchen's sophisticated neutral beige colors help to create a warm, welcoming feeling. Plenty of cabinets extend to the work peninsula that overlooks a breakfast room where another large picture window continues that natural daylight feel. A large laundry room with utility sink completes the efficiency of this fine home.

105 Oakview Drive, located in a quiet subdivision yet close to thriving Salisbury North Carolina shopping areas, offers 3 bedrooms on its main level with 2 full bathrooms. A new owner's suite includes private shower and large dual closets. But wait, you say . . . this is a ranch! Isn't it all 'main level'? Surprise! A small staircase hidden behind a doorway leads to a bonus room over the garage, set up as its own suite complete with full bath.

Master Suite

Master Suite

Bonus Room over Garage

Outdoor enjoyment areas include a deep rocking chair front porch at the home's welcoming entry, and a small rear deck off the living room. 

The over-sized side-load garage, accessed via a concrete drive, provides a nice storage closet.

A 12' x 20' storage shed conveys.The brick and vinyl siding translate to low maintenance here!

105 Oakview Drive is located convenient to shopping, I-85 access, and Salisbury's downtown amenities such as theaters, restaurants, galleries, and nightlife. See this wonderful home for yourself by calling Greg Rapp for your private showing: (704) 213-6846. This pretty ranch can be YOURS to love!

105 Oakview Drive
Salisbury NC 28146
CMLS#3582298
$249,900






Greg Rapp 
Wallace Realty Co. 
704 213 6846 Mobile 
704 636 2021 Office 
www.realestatesalisbury.net 

Immaculate Ranch Home with Finished Basement - Can Be Yours!

Along a winding Salisbury, North Carolina street filled with picturesque bungalows, Tudor cottages, and Post-War homes from the 1920s through the 1950s, this spotlessly clean 3-bedroom/2-bath Ranch home awaits its new owner.  Spotless, you ask? Don't take our word for it! Call Greg Rapp, with Wallace Realty, at 704.213.6846 to see this immaculate home for yourself. At $138,000 . . . we're pretty certain this home will not linger on the market.

At first glance, this looks like your basic one-story Ranch home. As you enter and walk through its large eat-in kitchen, spacious living room with fireplace, and down the hall to the three bedrooms, you might be convinced that this is exactly what you're looking at. But open a door that leads downstairs, and you'll find another nearly 800 heated and cooled square feet of living space sprawling beneath, with a large den (with gas log fireplace!), a full bath, spotless laundry room, a hobby room . . . and on out to the single-car garage and large workshop . . . and you know this is no ordinary Ranch home!

Welcome to 501 West Henderson Street in Salisbury, North Carolina ~ 2,193 square feet of home in pristine condition. This wonderful home has had only one owner. While her husband was away at war, the wife purchased the lot, obtained the plans, and began the build process on the house. Sixty-seven years later, this solid home is now in this couple's estate.

This circa 1951 Ranch-style home with its full, partially finished basement is spotlessly clean, has been completely freshly and professionally painted inside, and offers nearly pristine hardwood floors flow throughout the main level.

The large living room with sunny picture window and masonry fireplace opens to balcony-style deck that overlooks the sweeping manicured landscape. This balcony shields a small patio beneath with a doorway that provides another entry to the home's lower level.

The warm, knotty pine eat-in kitchen offers a wonderfully long stretch of counter workspace and abundant cupboards. You'll find, in fact, loads of built-in storage throughout 501 W. Henderson Street.

The partially finished walk-out basement could almost be an in-law apartment, with its own entry (with doorbell), the carpeted den with gas log fireplace, a small hobby room, and the full bathroom with shower. The den also has a wonderful large multi-paned window that overlooks the back yard.

On this level you'll also find the laundry room, the one-car garage and a large and immaculate workshop. The workshop has its own entrance and although completely wired with electricity, is amply lit with natural daylight from another large multi-paned window.

501 W. Henderson Street sits on a pretty corner lot just blocks from Salisbury's beautiful Hurley and City Parks, close to downtown Salisbury unique shopping and restaurants, minutes from Interstate, High Rock Lake and more. Novant Health Hospital is nearby.

A house of this era, in this excellent condition and in its desirable neighborhood, is not expected to last long on the market. Give Real Estate Agent Greg Rapp a call to see this for yourself - 704.213.6846 - don't take our word for it!


501 Henderson Street
Salisbury NC 28144
CMLS #3446473
$138,000






Greg Rapp 
Wallace Realty Co. 
704 213 6846 Mobile 
704 636 2021 Office 
www.realestatesalisbury.net