OPEN HOUSE: Artist's Pool Home (University Park Area)

This is to invite you to view artist/decorator Jack Alexander's artworks and home for sale. Best described his artwork is a cutting-edge combination of realism, surrealism and visionary art. Collectors and clairvoyants credit his images as having healing properties.

When the economy collapsed in 2009, Alexander headed cross-country to Sarasota tfrom Las Vegas, where he had been painting and decorating hotel-casinos for 4 years. He purchased a home and brought with him the techniques he had learned while painting some of the world's most famous hotels-casinos on the Las Vegas Strip. Instead of painting marble columns at Caesar's and the Palazzo, he now installed and painted columns in his Florida  location. Rather than paint sky ceilings at the Paris, he painted dreamy murals on the walls of his guest bedroom.

Now Alexander is leaving Florida for Hawaii and Southeast Asia, and his stylish, creative 3BD/2BA home is up for sale. The house has "good bones."

• Offered at $195,900

• Built in 1987

• Concrete block construction

• Airy, open, 3BR/2BA split floor-plan

• 2,113 sf heated/cooled, includes attached, 2-car garage

• Lot Size = 10,149 sf / 0.23 acres

• Perfect Starter Home or Retirement Location

• Multiple upgrades galore!

Completely refurbished and redecorated over the course of a three year period, the house is detailed inside and out with custom-built rock work, hardwood floors, Berber carpets, French doors, a dreamy sky wall mural, and hand-painted faux surface treatments in exotic marbles, distinctive granites and decorative wood grains.

Columns, chandeliers, and faux marble walls and flooring grace the front hall and entryway. The home also hosts such welcome extra touches as a separate breakfast nook, a family room with built-in media center, a screened-in lanai, a fenced-in backyard with surrounding privacy fence, and a massive grand oak tree for shade.

Only 10 minutes from Sarasota International Airport (SRQ), this well-appointed home is approximately 15 minutes from downtown and the world's voted #1 top beaches, less than 5 minutes from the Sarasota Kennel Club, about 10 minutes from The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art and within walking distance to banks, shopping, movies, restaurants and more. The surrounding neighborhood is safe, quiet, quaint and respectful. A brand-new HVAC keeps cool in the summer and cozy in the winter. This low-maintenance residence is relaxing year-round, and there are no Home Owner Association fees or deed restrictions!

If you take pleasure in a creative, unencumbered lifestyle, this home will suit your spirit and spoil you for anything else. It offers a comfortable elegance while opening the opportunity to pare down on space, minimize expenses and still enjoy quality, excellence and sophistication.