Sapienzas' Golf Course Home
Features Southwestern Look I
BY DOUG RUTTKR
People feci comfortable when
ihcy walk through ihc front
door at Carl and Rita Sap
ienza's home at Lockwood Golf
Links.
Maybe it's the warm teal blue and
strawberry paint on the walls. May
be it's the two playful poodles that
offer greetings. Or maybe it's just
the Iriendly smiles of the twosome
welcoming them inside
Whatever the reason, the retired
couple has a beautiful, spacious
home to show off beyond the front
door.
Their 2,9 10-squarc- foot house
overlix>king the championship golf
course near Holden Beach isn't like
many others in the South Brunswick
Islands.
Hie Sapicnzas may live in the
Southeast, but their home resembles
one built in the Southwest.
The look begins with the stuccoed
exterior, inside, high ceilings,
ledges, large windows and open
space dominate the one-story house,
which features four bedrooms, three
full baths and a three -car garage.
Painted walls are textured in an "or
ange peel" finish.
Out hack, there's an open-air
porch and large deck around a mod
est swimming pool which Rita uses
about every day from April through
October.
The home was built in June 1989
as a "spec" house and the Sapienzas
moved in the following spring.
'To me it's a great laid-out
house," says Carl, who retired after
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