14 Robalene Drive , Goshen, NY 10924

By now you know the shape of the problem. The houses coming up do not have the rooms. Four bedrooms, two baths, and a conversation about an addition, which means an architect, permits, and a number that keeps moving. New construction means waiting out the build, then the settling, then a year of landscaping and pouring the patio yourself. This one is already past all of it, and you feel that before you reach the front door.You notice the quiet first. The street ends here, so nothing passes through and nothing sweeps the front windows at 11 p.m. A covered porch runs the front, deep enough for rocking chairs. Mature trees stand where you would otherwise be planting them, the beds are established, and the property is irrigated, so August stays green while you do nothing about it. The garage doors run on quiet belt drives, and just inside them a mudroom of custom cubbies and cabinets swallows the pile that otherwise lands on your counter, second refrigerator included. Beyond it the center hall opens rather than funnels, hardwood running in every direction, crown molding overhead.The kitchen is an easy one to live in, which matters more than anything else about it. White cabinetry to the ceiling, stone counters, gas cooking, a double door pantry, and an island that seats three, where everyone ends up no matter how much room there is elsewhere. The dining room sits right off it. The living room is wide and bright with a gas fireplace you start from the couch. Behind glass French doors there is a flex room with a full bath beside it, an office on Monday, a guest suite on Friday, a sixth bedroom the day you need the house to live on one floor.Upstairs, all five bedrooms on one floor and four full baths in the house. The primary sits under a tray ceiling with hardwood underfoot, and its walk in closet is built out floor to ceiling with custom cabinets and drawers. Its bath carries a double vanity and a custom glass shower. A second bedroom has a brand new private bath of its own, which settles a lot of arrangements before anyone has to negotiate them. Three more generous rooms follow, sharing the fourth full bath, and the laundry room is on the same floor as the beds.Then you open the back door. A deck steps down onto 2,500 square feet of paver patio, closed in by mature trees and privacy fence. The pool is heated, which matters most on either end of summer, when the air has cooled and the water has not and you are still swimming in October while everybody else has closed theirs. Fiber optic lighting turns the wat