This refurbished 1960s bungalow outside Frankfurt is the epitome of modernism on the outside and quintessentially modern on the inside. And it’s come to market on the eve of its 60th birthday. Set into deep gardens facing a southwest corner of Heusenstamm, a town on the Rodgau Plateau, it represents the best of both worlds.

The flat-roofed home was designed around a courtyard-style entrance laid with natural flagstones. Renovations in 2020 spruced up the solid-wood door and window frames and the delicate wood siding. Inside the front door, the broad entrance hall has buffed parquet floors, clay-lime plaster walls and a reading niche with built-in oak storage, all flooded with natural light from vast roof lights. Wider-than-average windows have custom window seats and full-height wide-spec sliding doors lead out to the landscaped rear garden.

Dusty-blue and dove-grey accents with pops of goldenrod complement custom hardwood built-ins in the new open kitchen, lit from above and from a strip of clerestory windows. Beyond it, a spacious skylit hallway leads to three bedrooms, an en suite principal bedroom and an additional bathroom, and ends in a living area with an anthracite wood-burning stove.

A deep basement with high ceilings and a spa bathroom has potential for expansion into the garden, to create an office or au pair suite.

The property is currently on the market with Fantastic Frank for 1.1 million euros.

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