Years before they retired and left the Hamptons on Long Island, Peter and Robin Sorentino had a vague idea they wanted to build in Lakes Edge at Golf Village, a development in Powell featuring Bob Webb Homes.

“We had seen this area a few years ago,” Robin says, when visiting their daughter, Anmarie Shipps, a Dublin resident and mother of Ethan, now 5.

After they retired and spent a year selling the home in which they lived for a decade, the couple took a trip to the Webb model and were both sold.

They are now in their second year of the 3,100-square-foot home, which mirrors some of the features from the model but with refinements the Sorentinos wanted. The interior of the patio home is at once stately and comfortable. It’s truly appealing to the eye immediately upon entering from the paver driveway.

Visitors immediately will note the 4-inch oak plank floors with a custom stain that are used throughout. “They’re so easy to keep clean,” Peter says.

To the right off the foyer is an office with a handsome and uniquely designed desk-cabinet and matching bookshelves, which were custom built by Amish craftsmen located in Plain City.

On the left is a formal dining area with decorative pillars and no walls separating it from the foyer and entry hall or the kitchen area to the rear, an openness the couple desired throughout the entire floor. A china cupboard with numerous crystal pieces is a focal point of the space that also includes a dining table that can seat 10.

Features abound in the great room with its high cathedral ceiling and the adjoining kitchen, which features a combination of tan/black granite on a generous island and darker granite along the walls.

Robin is especially happy with a gas countertop range in the island. “I really do cook, so I can talk to guests when I’m cooking. I’m not facing the wall,” she says.

She also chose base cabinets with extra-wide, self-closing drawers on the front and back. The cabinets are stained a color she calls “espresso.” Base cabinets along the walls have drawers and pullout shelves, and are a stained cherry with a glazed finish. The granite top is highlighted by a multi-colored tile backsplash. Appliances are stainless and include double built-in ovens.

Just steps from the island is a round glass dining table in an area between the kitchen from the great room, where the most significant architectural feature is a ceiling-high white wood mantel with a huge built-in mirror that tends to expand the room. There, the Sorentinos placed a rounded couch and two easy chairs in front of the fireplace. The back wall and part of the wall beside the fireplace have tall windows with arched windows above them, thus bringing in light and a pleasant view of the wooded rear yard.

The sunroom – an addition they requested – also has a cathedral ceiling and full windows. The sunroom’s entry is as wide as its exterior walls with a white wood-trimmed arch nearly ceiling high. Setting off the room is a grand piano, which adds a touch of class to the overall design.

The piano is played by Peter, a professional musician and a retired school music instructor, who performs periodically at both public and private events. Peter enjoys entertaining guests with music and frequently practices on his own, as well.

The master suite down a short hall from the kitchen was expanded some by bumping a wall into the garage, which likewise was bumped out some, too. This change also enlarged the adjoining laundry room to allow a coat hanging area.

Expanding the bedroom resulted in an extra large tiled shower, complete with fixed and moveable showerheads and a bench seat behind a glass block wall. Above the twin-sink countertop, Robin selected a pair of medicine cabinets with three-section mirrors. While the middle mirror is in a fixed position, pushing buttons opens the two side mirrors which pivot toward the middle and reflect full head and facial views, handy for doing makeup and hair, Robin says.

Rather than entering the walk-in closet from the bath as is popular in many home designs, the Sorentino’s closet is accessible from the extra-large bedroom. Keeping the bath and closet separate makes access to both easier and handier, Peter says.

Robin, a retired elementary school principal, was also an art teacher, and her eye for art is presented throughout the home. Variously located are drawings and paintings by her son, Michael, a teacher in Scranton, Pa., one of her own watercolors, two Picasso prints from France, a large framed poster from the Columbus Museum of Art, needle points by an aunt, and a colorful quilt at the top of the stairs made by a friend.

When choosing interior paint, Robin wanted some contrasts to highlight areas rather than muted colors they had in their previous home. Most prominent is a striking blue that blends well without being overpowering in the kitchen, while varying earth tones add ambience throughout.

“Large rooms were what I liked about this house,” Robin says. And the main second-floor guest room exemplifies that with room for a couch that fits comfortably along a wall next to the poster bed.

Just outside the bedroom is a full bath with twin sinks. And across a hall from it is the second bedroom with twin beds. It’s the room their grandson uses when he visits overnight (about once a month) and is just right for other friends who visit with their children, Robin notes.

Seldom is much done to enhance a garage, but Peter had one feature added. It’s an access to the unfinished basement that allows him to get in and out without trekking through the house. The basement currently serves as part workroom and part storage area.

“I think the house tells about Peter and me,” Robin says.

Duane St. Clair is a contributing editor for Luxury Living.