This $2.7M SC island home for sale is modeled after a ritzy Chicago urban loft. Take a tour
This $2.768 million home, located at 194 Spring Island Drive in Okatie, offers guests and potential buyers an incredibly unique residence and lifestyle found in the Lowcountry.
The 4,604 square-foot property sits on a 2-acre landscape on the Colleton River and is described as an “contemporary urban loft inspired architectural masterpiece” that will certainly stand out against other homes found within Beaufort County.
Found on Spring Island, which is adjacent to Callawassie Island, this home offers one of the very few unobstructed marsh to river views on the entire island.
This four-bedroom and five-bathroom property consists of the main residence and guest house, with the guest house made up of two bedrooms and two bathrooms, a laundry space and kitchen.
Old Tabby Floors can be found on the main home’s lower level and throughout the entire guest house.
The main home is complete with its own elevator, chef’s kitchen and an impressive rear wall of windows to immerse its inhabitants with the surrounding nature found within the Lowcountry rivers and salt marshes.
The residence offers more land and more privacy than typical market options, which allows Spring Island homeowners to be as social or reclusive as their mood fits due to the separation of nearby properties, according to the property’s sole owners and current sellers Gary and Louanne Shimmin.
After previously living in a loft in Chicago’s West Loop with a “perfect view of the Sears Tower,” the Shimmin’s had “loved the open floor plan,” which had “made it excellent for entertaining” and decided to bring that inspiration to their new Spring Island property.
When building their Spring Island home, Louanne and Gary Shimmin chose to replicate their previous loft floor plan, while “simply swapping the Sears Tower for marshes and the Colleton River.”
They chose to use the second floor of the primary living space to take advantage of the “marvelous” view their Lowcountry, Spring Island property had to offer.
The residence contains several unique offerings to the area such as its colorful, contemporary and urban exterior with unique interior additions like black-and-white tiling, vast windowed rear wall, half circle window design and modern staircase.
The home offers its guests and residents their own wine cellar, naturally sunlit rooms, tall ceilings, steel-framed hurricane grade windows and hurricane shutters and outdoor entertainment areas.
Spring Island is a neighborhood community that has an equestrian center, hunt club, fishing areas, a sporting clay area, sports complex and golf course.
The listing agent for this property is local realtor Thomas Kersey who is a Global Luxury Agent with Coldwell Banker Access Realty.
This story was originally published February 24, 2023 at 8:00 AM.
