Home tours: This midcentury home, just south of Charlotte, has parking for a plane.
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Twin sisters Karen Roboz Rossitch and Tonina Roboz Abplanalp’s childhood home in Weddington’s Aero Plantation was built in 1964 by architect Victor Civkin.
The girls grew up playing on more than 30 acres of land, with a carport large enough to hold a couple of cars and a plane, a round pool deep enough for diving, and a fireplace surround from Germany.
Fifty years after the home was built, Rossitch and Abplanalp decided to renovate the home to its original glory. They sold it for $1.275 million in December. It’s the house of COVID-19 quarantine dreams, if there is such a thing — living here, you’d never want to leave.
Here are some other fun facts about the house:
- This home on Skytop Road was the original home of Aero Plantation, a neighborhood that features a 2,400 foot plane runway.
- The home was designed to bring the outside inside.
- The pool is 12 feet deep in the center and has a diving board.
- A sunken living room features a fireplace surround commissioned in the Black Forest of Germany.
- The home has steel frames.
- The home has 5 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms and is 6,054 square feet.
Look for the floating stairs, an original bar, a tile mosaic collage, hand-carved doors and a secret room.
- The original home tour was featured in The Charlotte Observer on April 12, 1971, with the headline: “Her Utopia Far From Youth”.
Follow along with us as we visit the restored home that Midcentury Modern dreams were made of:
Kitchen
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Sunroom
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Living room
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Sunken living room
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Entryway
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Floating stairs
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What do you think? Would you have left the wood paneling or renovated it also? Email us at charlottefive@charlottefive.com and let us know what you think.
More renovated spaces
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Master bedroom:
Restroom:
Secret room:
Backyard:
Check out the rotating gallery at the bottom of this story for more images.
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This story was originally published April 23, 2021 at 6:00 AM.
