Anything's Possible Circa-1912 Queen Anne on Courtland Place. by John Griffin his house has so much going for it -- I hope it's not sold before this column makes it to print. It's clear the owners have lavished a lot of love and attention on it and I'm sure someone's going to snap it up quickly. As he or she should. The statistics tell so little here. There are two bedrooms and two baths. Big deal, right? Well, how often do you get 11-foot ceilings, old pine floors, and the sense in every room that many folks before you have loved this house? This is true even though the house was at one time duplexed and has now been reconverted to its original single-family status. It seems a lot of changes have taken place in the layout during these various renovations. The present two bedrooms were most likely the original parlor and dining room. For one thing, they're the biggest rooms in the house (which sure makes them grand bedrooms), and for another, the closets, being somewhat generous for Midtown, certainly aren't original. The kitchen obviously isn't where it started out either. It's pretty clearly situated now in what is a rear-enclosed porch, but it opens up to the original room, which functions as the (oh-so modern) "keeping room," where there's not only an eat-in bar but a comfy seating area as well. There are special touches all over the place, inside and out. The extra-deep front porch, with its heavily vined western trellis, is obviously a well-visited gathering spot. The current living and dining rooms have had their ornate, Eastlake moldings around doors and windows hand-stripped of paint by the current owners. The few remnants of color only add to the age and character of these rooms. The dining room not only has track lights to highlight art and light the table, but a ceiling-hung, candled chandelier also hovers low over the table. Any meal would be a feast here. Equally appealing are the hand-made beadboard cabinets in the kitchen and bar areas. They're not perfect and so much more wonderful for it. It would be more in the feel of the house to replace the existing plastic laminate countertops here either with a hard rock maple butcher block or, continuing the hand-built look, glue 2x6's together to form your own tops of cherry or heart pine. There's also an immense unfinished attic that could be a home office or a third bedroom suite. The backyard has paths leading to seating areas, a new privacy fence, and a picket-fenced herb garden. There are already old roses and a single fig, but it would be great to lush up a rear corner with more figs and crape myrtles to create a hidden, shady retreat. This house suggests with a little love and sweat anything's possible. What more could you want?