2255 Emerald Road
The front of the house at 2255 Emerald Road: stone and vertical wood under a standing seam roof, with solar panels on the roof and a covered entry beyond the drive.

Nearly an acre in Boulder,
with water running through it.

2255 Emerald Road  ·  Boulder, Colorado  ·  0.91 acres

Homesite
0.91 acres
Bedrooms
Five
Baths
Five
Solar
13.6 kW
Completion
Mid-2027
Available
Any stage

An orchard, a pond, and a well, inside the city limits.

Nine-tenths of an acre under rural residential zoning, carrying a well, an orchard, established gardens, and a pond fed through a course of red Colorado sandstone. The trees are grown. The ground has been worked for years.

The house on it is being rebuilt and extended — five bedrooms, a vaulted living volume open to the kitchen, a primary suite with its own dressing room, a loft, and a pantry running the depth of the plan. Stone and vertical wood under a standing seam roof, with a covered outdoor room facing the water.

Some of what matters is not in any photograph. A four-ton geothermal heat pump. Thirteen and a half kilowatts of solar already on the roof. Triple-glazed Loewen windows, heat-recovery ventilation, and an envelope insulated past code. The house was designed to run on very little.

It is framed, roofed, and glazed, and drywall goes in shortly. It is not finished, and that is the opportunity — paint, tile, plumbing, and lighting are all still open, and completion is not until the middle of 2027.

The rear of the house, with the pool and a sandstone water course running past the covered porch.
The rear, across the water course to the pool
The pool and terrace, with the outdoor kitchen under a deep covered porch and the pond beyond.
Pool, terrace, and outdoor kitchen. Rendering, not a photograph.
The covered outdoor room, with a glazed roof, fireplace, television, dining table, and grill.
The covered outdoor room, glazed overhead
The pond and sandstone boulders between the house and the garden building.
The pond, between the house and the garden building

Buy it at any stage.

The house does not have to be finished to change hands. Choose where you would come in.

Take it over now

Buy the house in its current condition and finish it on your own terms, with your own builder and your own selections. The slow, expensive half is already done and paid for: design, permitting, framing, roof, windows, geothermal, solar, and the pool. The building is dried in and ready for drywall — what remains is largely a question of taste.

Where the build stands

  1. Design and permittingComplete
  2. Framing and structureComplete
  3. Roof, windows, and doorsComplete
  4. Pool and terraceComplete
  5. DrywallStarting shortly
  6. Interior finishesTo follow
  7. Landscape and completionMid-2027, estimated

Interior

Charcoal cabinetry and marble against white oak, under a vault over the main volume. Everything below is a rendering of the design as it currently stands.

The kitchen: a marble-topped island, charcoal cabinetry, and full-height storage columns under a vaulted ceiling.
Kitchen, across the island to the full-height storage
The kitchen from the dining end, with the induction cooktop on the right-hand run.
From the dining end
The kitchen and dining area, with a glazed wine wall along the far side.
Dining, with the wine wall beyond
The pantry: a long sink run beneath a window band, with a second cooktop and glass-fronted upper cabinets opposite.
The pantry, running the depth of the plan
The living room by day: a linear gas fire in a stone chimney, an open oak and glass stair, and doors to a courtyard.
Living room, with the stair and the courtyard beyond
The same living room in the evening, lit by the fire and a cove light along the ceiling.
The same room at dusk
A bedroom with an upholstered wall, sliding glass to the garden, and a wall of fitted wardrobes.
Bedroom, opening to the garden
The same bedroom in the evening, with the garden lit outside.
The same room at dusk
The primary bathroom: a long double vanity in blue-grey with a dark stone top and a pearl mosaic wall.
Primary bathroom
The primary bathroom looking toward the walk-in shower, with the dressing room through a door on the left.
Toward the shower, dressing room beyond
The primary dressing room: mirrored and glazed cabinetry either side of a stone-topped island.
Primary dressing room
The loft, with a built-in television wall and a lit bar cabinet with wine storage.
Loft
Silent loop
Bedroom, moving

Specifications

What the design currently calls for. Some selections remain open and are resolved before completion.

Envelope

Stone
White thin stone veneer in an irregular course, with stone column caps
Siding
Vertical fire-resistant wood
Roof
Standing seam metal, with low-slope membrane over the flat planes
Glazing
Loewen, aluminium clad exterior, Douglas fir interior, triple glazed
Steelwork
Porch and entry canopies, planters, and patio columns in black steel
Hardscape
Sand-finish concrete at porches, steps, terrace, and pool deck

Interior

Flooring
European white oak, wide plank
Doors
Walnut, flush horizontal grain, eight feet tall throughout
Walls and ceilings
Painted gypsum board, level five, with drywall window returns
Fireplace
Linear gas, set into a stone chimney in the living volume
Millwork
Matte charcoal slab fronts, rift-grain wood island bases, marble slab counters

Kitchen

Ovens
Miele wall oven, combi steam oven, coffee machine, and warming drawer in graphite grey glass
Cold storage
Miele refrigerator and freezer columns
Cooking
Miele induction cooktop with a separate Gaggenau gas wok burner, under a custom hood
Integrated
Two dishwashers, ice maker, and two beverage units, all behind cabinet panels
Outdoor
Alfresco grill and griddle, set into the existing chimney

Performance

Energy modelling
Designed to an Energy Rating Index of −5 in the permit documents. Modelled, not verified — a rating is issued at completion
Solar
8.6 kW and 5 kW photovoltaic arrays, installed
Heating and cooling
Four-ton geothermal heat pump
Ventilation
Balanced heat-recovery ventilation
Insulation
R-29 walls, R-49 roof
Water
Existing well, alongside the pond and the ditch lateral
Fire and air
Fully sprinklered, radon mitigation, fire-resistant exterior to Wildfire Zone 2

Still open

Paint
Interior colours
Tile
Bathroom tile and stone
Plumbing
Fixtures throughout
Lighting
Decorative pendants and sconces
Landscape
Planting beyond the existing orchard and gardens

All imagery on this site is artist's rendering, produced for illustrative purposes only. Actual finishes, materials, colors, dimensions, and design details are subject to change. The house is under construction and is not complete. Square footages are approximate. Nothing here is an offer or a guarantee of what will be built.

The pond and the sandstone water course, with mature trees and native planting around it.

The land

Nine-tenths of an acre under rural residential zoning. It carries an orchard, established gardens, a pond, a garden building, and a stone retaining wall — all of which stay. There is a well on the property and a ditch lateral crossing it.

The mature trees remain. Planting around the new terraces is being developed to sit with them rather than replace them.

The property sits in Wildfire Zone 2, which shaped the envelope: fire-resistant siding, stone veneer, a sprinklered interior, and no propane on the site.

Boulder needs no introduction — open space on three sides, the Flatirons to the west, and a city that spent fifty years deciding not to grow outward.

North Boulder

The property sits within Githens Acres, a pocket of rural north Boulder where the lots run large and the houses range from the late 1950s through to new construction. It is about three miles north of downtown, and the character changes as you go — the grid loosens, the parcels widen, and the foothills start to close in.

Wonderland Lake is the anchor. The trailhead off North Broadway opens onto the lake loop and the South Foothills trails, and from there into Old Kiln and the Hogback Ridge network. It is a birding site as much as a walking one, with waterfowl on the lake and mule deer on the grassland above it.

Foothills Community Park covers sixty-five acres just east of the lake: playing fields, picnic shelters, a dog park, a playground, community garden plots, and its own way onto the open space trails. Paragliders launch off Wonderland Hill above it and land in the park, which is a fair summary of how north Boulder spends a Saturday.

Crest View Elementary serves the neighborhood, within the Boulder Valley School District. The SKIP runs down Broadway into town.

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Ask about the house.

Seth@Chernoff.us

720-490-5405

Seth and Stacey Chernoff own and are developing the house, and are handling the sale directly. Seth can answer questions on the design, the specification, the schedule, and what a purchase looks like at any given stage, and can bring the builder into the conversation.

Visiting

The house is an active construction site, so visits are by appointment. Allow an hour to walk the grounds and the interior. The full specification is available to qualified buyers and their representatives.

Built by

Murphy Construction Services, Longmont, Colorado
mcsi.pro