Florida Cottage

Welcome to Clipper Bay, a 20-lot gated community at the end of Stanford Road in Gulf Breeze. The owner designed and constructed this low-maintenance waterfront home on Redfish Point featuring 8-foot doors and 6-foot windows that enhance the views of Pensacola Bay, Escambia Bay, and East Bay. Entering the home from the covered front porch, the ground floor foyer provides access to the stairwell, garage, elevator, and the private ground-floor mother-in-law suite. A mini-split provides ample heating/cooling for the suite, with back porch windows overlooking Pensacola Bay and the Garcon Point Bridge. The 3 car garage provides a workshop with built-in workbench, boat trailer storage hoist, washer/dryer station, and a half-bath. The LPV floors and staircase treads lead to the open main floor, with breathtaking open-water views from the upstairs front balcony and the rear porch. The custom kitchen features custom soft-close cabinets with over/under LED lighting, a large walk-in pantry with auto-entry lighting, LG Suite Thin-Q stainless steel gas range/convection oven and four-door high efficiency refrigerator. The center island has a porcelain farm sink and a LG dishwasher. Granite adorns the countertops, island, and built-in dining table. The laundry closet, with a gas dryer, is adjacent to the elevator, next to the stairs. The guest bedroom and bath are situated just behind the kitchen. The open living room has a floating cabinet below the wall-mounted TV station. The back porch wall has a full-length glass door, plus three six-foot storm windows that provide natural light to the living room. The private office is located to the left of the master bedroom entrance. Just off the master bedroom entrance is an oversized walk-in closet with built-in dresser with soft-close drawers, shoe racks, lots of hanging space and access to the climate-controlled attic storage. The high-speed AT&T internet fiber modem is mounted on the closet wall. The master bath has dual vanities, soaker tub, custom ceramic shower, linen closet, and water closet with a heated toilet seat. The water views from the master bed area allow the sunrise to greet you on summer mornings. The home is very well insulated with a mixture of spray foam and fiberglass, and comes with an energy-efficient hybrid water heater. The combined water, gas, sewage, and electric bills average between $200-300 per month. The fully-automatic, natural gas standby Generac generator provides enough standby power to run the entire home during a loss of electrical power. The HOA dues are only $55/month which includes the well pump that provides daily irrigation to the homes. The second floor back porch and outside stairway are constructed of Brazilian Ipe wood with stainless-steel cables. The back yard is enclosed with anodized aluminum fencing with a gate leading to the fishing deck and boat house. The water views greet you with sunrise views over the bay. The vinyl seawall is reinforced with limestone boulders. The pier, deck and boathouse are made with composite piles and "Thru-Flow" decking. The Pensacola Bay water offers crab, redfish, flounder, trout and mullet. At night, the pier is lighted with blue, red, and green LED solar fixtures. Dock flood lights can be controlled from the rear porch or switches at the dock. This structurally reinforced home was completed in January of 2022. All windows are hurricane rated, and the standing-seam metal roof is rated for 180-mph winds. 2023 annual flood premium was less than $709, homeowner's policy is $3563, taxes $7,669. Due to higher construction elevation, none of the subdivision homes received any flood damage during Hurricane Sally. This twenty-lot gated subdivision is filling fast. Don't miss out on your change to own one of the best built Bayfront homes available in a safe Gulf Breeze gated community.