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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2019

dents have use of a clubhouse

with a fitness studio, outdoor

pools, and tennis and basketball

courts. Hiking and biking trails,

an amphitheater, a dog park,

playgrounds, two artificial lakes

and more than 300 acres of open

space are part of the community.

What’s nearby: Lenah Mill is

about 2.5 miles from Harris Tee-

ter, Walgreens, 7-Eleven, a bank, a

fitness center and various restau-

rants at the Stone Ridge Village

Center in Aldie. The stores and

restaurants of One Loudoun,

Dulles Town Center and Reston

Town Center are about 15 miles

from the community.

Transportation: The Parker

collection of homes is near Route

50 and Loudoun County Parkway.

The community is about 10 miles

from the bus station and future

Silver Line Metro station in Ash-

burn.

Schools: Goshen Post Elemen-

tary, Mercer Middle and John

Champe High.

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place, which is also an upgrade.

The sunroom off the kitchen,

another option, is staged as a

breakfast area. An outdoor deck,

also an upgrade, is reached

through sliding glass doors in the

dining area next to the family

room.

More options are found in the

basement, reached from a central

staircase. The rec room and a

bedroom with a full bathroom are

extras. The standard basement

comes unfinished and includes

utility and storage spaces.

Four bedrooms are on the sec-

ond floor. The owner’s bedroom

occupies the rear and is connect-

ed to its bathroom by a private

hallway with a walk-in closet on

each side. Bathroom upgrades

include an oval soaking tub set

between streamlined twin vani-

ties.

Two bedrooms, one with a

walk-in closet, occupy the middle

of the second floor. A third bed-

room with a walk-in closet is at

the front, along with a hall linen

closet and a laundry room. One of

the upgrades on this level is a hall

bathroom with access from the

front and center bedrooms.

Community amenities: Resi-

porch, the model home’s en-

tranceway flows into a flex space

staged as a home office. The large

open space at the rear of the

house contains the family room,

the dining area and the kitchen.

The family room has been ex-

panded from the standard floor

plan and fitted with a gas fire-

work at the base of the house.

The only furnished model

home showcases possible up-

grades to the Hersch floor plan,

priced starting at $682,995 with

the Farmhouse exterior. The

Hersch’s base price with the

Craftsman facade is $692,995.

From the stone-clad front

BY DEBORAH K. DIETSCH

Newlyweds Nick Oppelt and

Amy Sarver, both 31, recently

visited the Toll Brothers Design

Studio in Chantilly, Va., to decide

on options for their new digs. The

first-time home buyers are in the

process of purchasing a build-to-

suit, four-bedroom single-family

house in the Lenah Mill commu-

nity of Aldie, Va.

They chose the sunroom, great

room addition, gourmet kitchen,

an extra second-floor bathroom

and other upgrades for the Her-

mann design. This floor plan,

priced starting at $647,995, is one

of four offered by the Parker

collection, a new section at the

southernmost end of the 847-lot

Lenah Mill development. About a

third of the 95 Parker home sites

have sold.

Sarver and Oppelt rent a three-

bedroom townhouse in Ash-

burn’s Brambleton community,

and they spent months looking

around that area of Loudoun

County for a free-standing house

to buy.

“For the money we would have

to spend in Brambleton, we could

get a larger lot in Lenah Mill and

the house would be brand-new,”

said Sarver, a physician assistant

who works in Ashton, Va.

“We’ve always talked about

having a front porch, and we got

that in our new home,” said Op-

pelt, a salesman for a software

company in Herndon, Va. “The

most attractive thing inside is the

open floor plan on the main level.

We can envision hosting big fam-

ily dinners in that space.”

Craftsman facade: The Parker

collection’s four floor plans — the

Hermann, Hartigan, Hersch and

newly added Holland — all have

continuous living, dining and

cooking spaces on the main level.

The Hermann, Hartigan and

Hersch come with four bedrooms

on the second floor with the

option of a fifth bedroom on the

ground floor and a sixth in the

basement.

The standard layouts for the

three have two bathrooms on the

second floor and a powder room

off the entrance foyer on the

ground floor. They offer an up-

grade to a third full bath on the

ground level and a fourth in the

basement.

The least costly floor plan, the

Holland, starts at $629,995 and

has three bedrooms, with an op-

tion to add a fourth.

A two-car garage is standard

with the three exterior designs

for each floor plan. Oppelt and

Sarver chose the Craftsman fa-

cade with vinyl siding, shingles

on the second story and stone-

Buying New The Parker at Lenah Mill

New section of single-family houses rises at Lenah Mill

BENJAMIN C TANKERSLEY FOR THE WASHINGTON POST

The family room in the model home at the Parker, a new development of single-family houses that is part of the Lenah Mill community in

Aldie, Va. About a third of the Parker’s 95 home sites have been sold. The house’s dining area is visible at left and the kitchen at right.

THE PARKER AT LENAH MILL

41359 Tarragon Leaf Dr., Aldie, Va.

Four floor plans for the single-family houses are available at base prices

ranging from $629,995 to $692,995.

Builder: Toll Brothers

Features: The detached two-story houses have nine-foot-high ceilings on

the main level and eight-foot-high ceilings on the second floor. Hardwood

floors are included in the entrance foyer, kitchen, breakfast area and

ground-floor powder room. Kitchens have standard stainless-steel GE

appliances, granite countertops and Century cabinetry with a built-in

waste-recycling center. Designer-picked color schemes for the exteriors

come standard.

Bedrooms/bathrooms: 3 to 6 / 3 to 5

Square-footage: 2,471 to 3,068

Homeowner fee: $138 a month includes access to the community

clubhouse and other amenities, and snow, trash and recycling removal.

View model: 1 to 6 p.m. Sunday and Monday; 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday

through Saturday.

Contact: Andrew Cope at [email protected] or Dawn Johnson at

[email protected] or 703-436-1452.

 To see more photos of Lenah

Mill, go to washingtonpost.com/real-

estate.